External Impact Syndrome

External influence syndrome (ESS) is a psychological phenomenon in which a person feels that his actions and thoughts are controlled by external forces (causing him harm) and cannot effectively resist them.

The formation of SVV is caused by a number of reasons, including individual characteristics of the psyche, increased sensitivity to external stimuli, lack of self-regulation and insufficient formation of identity. SSI is often formed as a result of the influence of internal and external circumstances on a person, complicating the process of his formation as a person and accompanied by the experience of fear or guilt. Factors contributing to the formation of SIDS also include disruption of the natural rhythm of life, personal isolation, dissatisfaction with one’s achievements in the social sphere, restrictions in social contacts, and others.

SVV is usually characterized by: - ​​the idea of ​​one’s own existence as containing only negativity; - preoccupation with unhappy thoughts and experiences; - changing the course of thinking into identically antagonistic states of “obligation and prohibition”; - feeling of being unbearable and useless; - feeling of emptiness; - anxiety; - inability to adequately and effectively respond to external circumstances.