Anxious and suspicious psychotype and features of its relationship with other psychotypes

The concept of accentuation

Accentuation of character is considered to be an extreme manifestation of the norm, bordering on psychological pathology. This concept is akin to accents, emphasis, and indications of weak character traits that negatively manifest themselves in an individual’s behavior. Basically, the formation of accentuation occurs in adolescence, since this is a crisis and important moment in the development of personality.

If a teenager was able to survive this period without problems, then his type of accentuated personality will manifest itself only in stressful and traumatic situations. If something has affected the normal development of the personality, there is a chance that the person will develop an anxious personality type.

How to get rid of suspiciousness?

You can remove suspiciousness from your life on your own, but to do this you need:

1. Realize your situation and understand that you really have problems with suspiciousness;
2. Be prepared to constantly analyze your life.

And now, if you are ready, let's proceed to specific measures. Here's what you need to do:

• Always look for positive qualities in yourself, focus on your successes, not mistakes, and emphasize your best features.
• Set yourself up for the positive: to start, just smile at yourself in the mirror in the morning and say how good you are. Further more - try to find positive moments in every little thing.
• Try to laugh at yourself: it’s quite difficult to do, but you can still try.

Tip #1: Write down your fears on sticky notes and stick them on the wall in a place where you will see them all the time. Soon you will get used to them and realize that being afraid of such things is really funny. As you get used to these stickers, you will worry less, and, therefore, suspiciousness will gradually disappear.

Tip #2: Depict your fear in a drawing, or even better, in the form of a comic book. This technique will also help you deal with your fears in a humorous way rather than as an anxious person.

• Drive away fear. It is fear that needs to be driven away, not thoughts. Trying to drive away obsessive negative thoughts will only increase their impact on you.

Tip No. 3: Psychologists advise telling your fear: “Come here, what did you come up with again? Now we’ll sort it out with you!”

• Try to think rationally, think about the pleasant, not the bad.

Tip #4: Find yourself a hobby. A favorite activity 100% allows you to take your mind off negative thoughts.

Anxiety as a character trait

This type of personality is sometimes combined with other pronounced traits, such as suspiciousness and timidity. It is expressed in hypertrophied anxiety. Such people are used to worrying about everything and everyone. These are suspicious, superstitious people who can see danger in almost everything.

They are also constantly overcome by doubts in their thoughts and actions. This, in turn, gives rise to timidity, indecisiveness, lack of initiative, and modesty. If such a person makes a mistake, then in the future, if he finds himself in a similar situation, he will most likely try to avoid it or will be inactive. Any failure for an anxious personality type is a personal catastrophe that he will experience for a long time and hard.

Peculiarities

Such individuals have many fears and phobias. Even if, with age, they manage to control or hide them, they still remain, and this is a serious problem that needs to be solved. After all, such internal experiences distort and disrupt a person’s socialization and adaptation, which is why the level of social activity decreases. People who have an anxious-suspicious personality type are not able to refuse. They never try to defend their point of view, do not argue, and speak modestly with people if they are older or occupy a higher level in the social hierarchy. Their personal and professional sphere may suffer due to low resistance to stress and vulnerability.

Symptoms

The clinical picture of LC develops in childhood. Visible personality traits are revealed in relationships with parents and peers. Children are prone to isolation, react painfully to criticism, are shy and anxious.

Manifestation (clear manifestation of symptoms) occurs in the period from 18 to 25 years. Teenagers and mature people do not trust others, think about their own actions, do not want to join the work team, are lonely, shy and try to distance themselves from emotionally significant connections. Patients try not to form close relationships—get married, make friends. People with anxious PD are easily controlled: they end up in “bad” companies and succumb to the influence of the leader. Because of this, early alcoholism, nicotine addiction or drug addiction begins.

People with personality disorders often suffer from social phobia. This is manifested by internal tension in communication with peers, an attempt to avoid contact, hesitant speech and reticence.

20-40% of people with SPD have anxiety-phobic disorder, periodic panic attacks, agoraphobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Other characteristics

Such people are most afraid in life of appearing stupid and showing themselves from a disadvantageous position in front of their interlocutors. They may develop a recheck symptom, which is when the person returns home to check that they have closed the front door. They tend to record negative events and spin even the most insignificant situations to the point of absurdity. What is meant here is that, just having heard the mention of the problem, they already imagine its worst outcome. Moreover, even if the situation in reality does not worsen, they can imagine for a long time how it might develop in the future. This naturally affects their behavior, concentration, performance and other important aspects.

Also, their inability to defend their point of view often puts them in bad situations. If a more confident person sees weakness, he can take advantage of this and shift his responsibilities onto him or blame him for not completing planned work, so that he is responsible to his superiors for the entire team, even if he himself did all the work. This is especially true for those people who have an anxiously responsible personality type. Their attention is very fixated on the feeling of lack of attractiveness and inability to do something well. In other words, they are constantly in disharmony with their inner world and exaggerate their own shortcomings.

How to overcome suspiciousness in 17 steps

Below is one of the techniques with which you can cope with suspiciousness yourself. It consists of 17 consecutive steps. So, what is its essence?

Tips and tricks

Even anxiety is a mental disorder if it manifests itself too much in a person’s character. All the same, such people are not subject to hospitalization, since such mental deviations can be dealt with on an outpatient basis. Anxiety, suspiciousness, and fears usually overwhelm a person so much that he can no longer get rid of them on his own. Therefore, a visit to a psychologist or psychoanalyst is recommended.

If a person decides to undergo treatment, an anxious personality type requires serious effort and expense to adjust and harmonize the emotional background. In some cases, the problem can be solved without resorting to the help of specialists. There are some general recommendations for people with these behavioral problems. In the end, if you see yourself in the descriptions of this personality type and admit that it’s time to do something about it, then half the work is already behind you, you have realized that there is a problem and it is preventing you from living a normal life.

The consequences of negative thoughts and suspiciousness in our lives

How does suspiciousness prevent us from living? First, bad thoughts are permanently “written” in our head, then they turn into negative emotions that haunt us in all areas of life, and as a result, we ourselves attract troubles, failures and problems with our thoughts and behavior.

Particularly often, suspiciousness manifests itself in issues related to health, career and relationships. For example, suspiciousness towards diseases can develop into real paranoia, when we constantly look for signs of serious diseases in ourselves - and, most importantly, find them and convince ourselves that we are terminally ill.

Suspicion spoils life not only for us, but also for the people around us. Agree that it would be difficult for you to communicate with a person who inflates every trifle into problems of a universal scale. Such a person attracts trouble, considers himself a complete loser and does not add a positive mood to himself or those around him.

Often suspiciousness is connected precisely with health. The example we gave of searching for all possible fatal diseases is not a joke. For many, this behavior is a way of life. In medicine, people with similar behavior are called “hypochondriacs.”

A suspicious person, like a hypochondriac, does not imitate his fears, he is under the influence of self-hypnosis - he is “infected” with his fear, like a virus.

Constant suspiciousness gradually pulls you into its net: you perceive the entire world around you only in a negative light, you do not live, but exist under the yoke of your fears. In addition, suspiciousness can develop into psychosomatic problems, including:

• Respiratory diseases;
• Constant irritability;
• Depression;
• Prolonged depression.

A suspicious person is confident in advance of a negative result, so he will not even make any special efforts to achieve his goals in life. Why stress if everything is going to be bad?

As a result of all this, a person’s quality of life deteriorates:

• We are deprived of peace, we are constantly in tension;
• We can do rash things;
• We go under the power of obsessive thoughts;
• Our social circle is narrowing, as some people are eliminated as suspicious, while others disappear on their own, not wanting to become just as suspicious;
• Health deteriorates: migraines, hypertension, gastrointestinal diseases, nervous disorders appear;
• Positivity and positive emotions disappear from life.

A suspicious person can get rid of negative thoughts and fear on his own. It is very important that we can notice our “suspicious” state ourselves. And here you shouldn’t let the situation take its course. The sooner you start working on yourself, the sooner happiness will return to your life!

Advice from psychologists

What to do with an anxious and suspicious personality type? First of all, start adjusting your views, attitude towards yourself and the world. You need to get rid of the prisms that your psyche has imposed on your perceptions in order to deal with stressful situations. It is very important to maintain your physical health. Typically, such mental deviations provoke a person to lead a sedentary life. There is also a high probability of psychosomatic disorders.

Psychologists and doctors recommend running, doing physical exercise, massage, swimming and other procedures aimed at maintaining health and relaxing muscles. To understand how to change an anxious personality type, you must learn not to think sometimes. Physical labor and sports are good for getting rid of obsessive thoughts, so to speak, throwing them out of your head. True, getting into the right mindset may require a lot of time and effort at first. It is also important to start thinking positively. Here it is better to work with a psychologist, he will help you get rid of unnecessary stereotypes and attitudes. And in the end, it’s worth overcoming all fears and getting rid of phobias.

Is suspiciousness a disease or a character?

So, what is suspiciousness?

A suspicious person is a person who is constantly in anxious fears that something bad is bound to happen to him. Negative, negative and once again negative: everything around is bad, I can’t do anything, everyone around is traitors - these are the kind of negative thoughts that constantly spin in the head of a suspicious person. As a result, this reaches the point of complete absurdity, when a pimple that appears on the forehead begins to be regarded as a fatal disease.

Initially, suspiciousness is an integral character trait that spoils the life of its owner. Such people are prone to touchiness and constant anxiety, they have complexes, lack self-confidence, and with their negativity they drive not only themselves, but also their loved ones crazy.

If a suspicious person does not fight his “illness” on his own or does not want help with this, then the consequences can be very serious. And then suspiciousness develops into a real disease: in “advanced cases,” not only paranoia and persecution mania develop, but physical health is also undermined.

Practical recommendations

To get rid of phobias and fears, psychologists often recommend that people with such a character try performing on stage. Acting helps you get rid of stage and audience fear and try to take on a different role of a completely different person. Take a look, so to speak, from the outside - what a person would look like if he thought and approached life differently. Also, acting, even at an amateur level, helps to cope with neurosis.

One of the characteristics of an anxious personality type is a critical lack of faith in one’s own strengths and oneself to the extent that it is difficult for a person to pronounce words. Vocal therapy also helps with stuttering. Translating words to music helps you pronounce words more clearly and confidently. The person will see that he copes better with the task and his self-esteem will increase. And this, in turn, will have a very good effect on the treatment process.

Anxious personality type, how to deal with it. Neurotic type

Archetypes of their parents: “overprotective mother”

A state of increased psychological discomfort, often for minor reasons, associated with increased sensitivity, irritability (weak type of nervous system, melancholic type).

Anxious individuals focus on their experiences and detach themselves from the surrounding reality.

External manifestation:

• diffidence;
• complex concentration on one's thoughts;
• introspection, soul-searching;
• anxious questioning of details and their even greater clarification to the point of detail;
• worry about possible troubles;
• suspiciousness;
• intolerance to waiting;
• psychological atavism - a feeling of protecting one’s back (the desire to sit with one’s back against the wall).

How to communicate with this type of client:

The client should be seated in a chair as soon as possible; if this is not possible, engage him in a conversation on an abstract topic, or offer educational literature on non-medical topics. Communication in a soft, soothing manner, without emphasizing the features of the diagnosis and course of the disease. The conversation must be built in the form of a dialogue, answering to the client’s questions, stimulating him to raise these questions. If necessary, if there is a vegetative-vascular reaction, it is necessary to premedicate according to one of the schemes. The conversation should proceed in the form of a monologue by a psychotherapist with a cyclical emphasis on the problem. Some time after the start of the conversation, the client calms down and is able to more or less adequately perceive the information. Repeated repetition to the client about the presence of this or that problem, the need for a comprehensive solution to this problem, an explanation of the mechanisms of the development of the disease and the presence of vicious circles allows us to create internal motivation for these individuals and overcome fear of treatment.