Do We Need Psychological Aid?

In spite of this, the depressions in our country are becoming massive, and the number of psychosomatic diseases (those that are caused by both psychic and physiological factors) is steadily growing, and a negligible number of people still apply for help to psychologists - only 2%.
Our citizens prefer to solve their spiritual problems on their own.

Psychological help is not in our traditions

To understand why it is not customary to go to psychologists, we need to turn to our history.
Russia has always been a country with a patriarchal way of life that prescribes certain rules of conduct for both men and women. The wife was considered "property" of her husband and could marry once in her life. Realized a woman could only in the family and children. The man was prescribed the role of head of the family. The system, which has been formed for centuries, practically did not give people freedom of choice and independence in decision-making. And such a "trifle", as mental suffering, and did not take into account at all.
In the Soviet period, psychiatry acquired a punitive character and for a long time became a means of suppressing dissent. A cautious attitude in psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychologists has remained in people up to the present time.

Psychological help and physical health

People say: "All diseases from nerves," but most prefer to treat nerves with their home-grown methods, which often only worsen health. The national way of coping with stress with the help of alcohol has led to a catastrophic level of alcoholization of the population. Smoking, as a means of relaxing, increases the number of people suffering from nicotine addiction. A stinging of stress led to the growth of people with excess weight. But for those who simply ignore stresses and do not fight them in any way, there is a real threat of the development of cardiovascular diseases (heart attacks, strokes, hypertension), diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, depression.

Psychological assistance as a means of solving problems

It is known that 99% of our problems have a psychological cause and are rooted in our past: childhood and adolescence. And in order to improve the quality of life, to solve problems that for years do not resolve, to achieve the goals, it is necessary to identify and eliminate the psychological roots of problems. It is difficult to do this by yourself, that's why the psychological help of a qualified specialist is needed. Personal life, family, relationships with a partner, with children, relatives, successes and failures at work, career development, health - all this directly depends on our emotional state. For those who understand this, new opportunities are opening up in self-regulation that will help to really manage one's own life.