Problems never come alone to worried people. A natural disaster is an excuse for them to face another disaster, regardless of a helicopter flight. This time of a personal nature: Such a person thinks, “The next drone bomber will definitely fall on my head.” Or: “I will drown during a downpour when the drainage systems in Moscow are again clogged. Better still, if I drive, I’ll crash into the Kremlin wall, die naturally, and yet the guards will fire a few machine guns just in case. , machine guns on my lifeless body, and the torpedoes of a secret submarine moored somewhere in Serebryany Bor.
To some, such a stream of thought may seem absurd, but many people actually live in such a reality. And from the outside it is difficult to distinguish them from ordinary Russians who are affected by problems and news.
The number of mentally unstable people has been increasing for 30 years, now there are officially about 6 million (us?). At about the same rate, the number of non-professional psychologists who are unable to meet the needs of their clients is also increasing.
According to Rosstat, there are about 200,000 certified psychologists today, and very few of them are actually able to help “restless” people. A good psychologist will “relieve anxiety” in ten sessions at most, usually two or three. If this does not happen, the client is sent to psychiatrists or psychotherapists.
After the drone attacks on Moscow and other cities, there was a serious increase in the demands of those who had “bombing fear”. Anxious people have a goal that will make them excited in their own way. For them, this is a serious problem. But the help that graduate “psychologists” try to provide them is more reminiscent of children’s horror story games: “Think of a good thing”, “Compare the probability of a drone crashing with the probability of being hit by a car”, “Suggest to yourself that everything will be fine for you”. .
These tips will help a person with a stable psyche and those suffering from ailments need treatment. Sometimes long because they are not so afraid of death or disability. For them, their own death is just a way to amuse their pride. What matters is the occurrence of a special event. Fear mixed with egocentrism excites them.
Probably everyone has annoying acquaintances who regularly suffer from rare ailments, find themselves in atypical situations, meet “very strange people”. Such characters can drive a normal person into apathy within half an hour. But if fear has infected them, then self-focus can play a cruel joke with them. They will not be interested in fear of completely understandable events. For example, break your lost leg in winter. No, they will want to teleport from a 5G tower, escape Ukrainian helicopters, fight aliens – it all comes down to personal preference. If a person believes in “men in black” he will still fight them because from his view of the world they are real. That is, he combines debt and credit at work, and in his spare time immerses himself in his own reality, listening to every buzz in the street, reporting to the police about a drone flying over the neighboring garden.
In recent months, hundreds of thousands of reports have come to the special services that drones, which turned out to be birds, flew, helicopters of the Ministry of Emergencies, stars in the night sky, hallucinations … This means that Russia has lost the psychological war . On the other side of the conflict, the special services are probably rejoicing at what is happening, because the anxiety of the masses is causing instability and political chaos in society.
Federal TV channels reassure people as much as possible. They explain that drones are not as dangerous as the stray dogs that flood cities in the regions or the maniacs on the show. In fact, unlike dogs, drones target military facilities, not ordinary people. But local authorities continue to dispel the occasional hysteria. You have to give them credit, they’re pretty good at it. For several decades there have been reptiles, secret weapons, conspiracy of aliens with oligarchs, etc. It is not difficult to shake the soul of a person who is treated with stories about him. The epidemic of 2020 showed how strong the influence of conspiracy theories and fantasies of television screenwriters on the psyche of people – in a few days, medical masks disappeared from the shelves, which, as a result, did not save anyone and did not get rid of the infection. .
Throughout history, humanity has been creating things that it normally can’t manage, from horse-drawn carriages to artificial intelligence. And the fact that a series of random events can occur in anyone’s life makes no mention of its prerogative.
The person who fears the drone is the product of the “cult” despair inspired by the yellow press and local movies. Such people have grown up with a sense of hellish danger, and they try to embody it as much as possible. “Something bad always happens to them” and therefore they are an ideal target not only for drones, but also for the special services of other states.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editors’ position.