Emotional isolation

Avoiding contact with your true emotions is called emotional isolation. Emotional isolation is a defense mechanism.

Talking about things and forgetting them are the isolation of emotional isolation. Emotional isolation is everywhere.

Emotional isolation normally has certain positive effects. But if you are isolated for too long, you can easily become stupid, numb, and ruthless. Therefore, there can be neither no isolation nor complete isolation. Too much (not enough, too much) emotional isolation is bad.

Case: Listening to this sad family tragic story, some people are laughing. These people are isolated and it’s so painful for those who laugh.

The teacher’s response: “There is a strong emotional contrast now. Some people are particularly sad, and some people are particularly happy.” You can ask: "Why are you laughing?" There is no need to tell the other person that the reason for laughing is emotional isolation. If the other person doesn’t respond, you can ask the other person: How do you feel when they laugh?

Laughing and talking about his early trauma is a sign of isolation. Or, after listening to sad stories, some people’s reaction is: I was very happy when I was a child. This is also a manifestation of emotional isolation. (Judging from consultation experience, these people may actually be unhappy)

When mentally ill patients say they are not sick, they are in isolation. Only when you admit that you are sick can you consider being discharged from the hospital.

Criticizing smokers when you don’t smoke is a special pleasure when you smoke; scolding professors when you become a professor is a manifestation of isolation in daily life.

Attitudes towards emotional isolation: We cannot have no isolation, nor can we all isolate.

Feedback 1: Patients with depressive symptoms are completely isolated. The goal of treatment is to turn depression into anxiety. Only when you are anxious can you feel your own life.

Feedback 2: I have lived with my grandparents since I was a child. I was very sad when I lost my grandma when I was 10 years old. I didn’t feel sad when I lost my grandfather at the age of 15. How to explain? All the tears flow to the heart without expression, which is a manifestation of emotional isolation.

Feedback 3: After hearing a joke, others laugh, but I can’t laugh. Is this isolation? Specific analysis: If you can’t understand and feel it’s meaningless, that’s not isolation. If you can understand it clearly and feel the joy but don’t express it, that’s isolation.

Feedback 4: Depression - Even when you feel the feelings of others, you will stay in your own feelings.