It happens that people find themselves in situations that are unsettling. For example, the person whom they hoped for suddenly fails, or some purchases turn out to be somewhat more expensive than planned. They can easily spoil the mood, but still, many quickly forget them. If, however, a person for a long time experiences frustration, anxiety, despair and other negative emotions, we can talk about frustration.
Psychology is called a frustration in a mental state arising due to a real or imaginary impossibility to satisfy one's needs or inconsistencies of available opportunities with one's desires. Frustration can be called a traumatic emotional state. This state is expressed directly in the experiences and appropriate behavior when certain insurmountable difficulties arise in the course of achieving a certain goal.
The causes of frustration can be: failure, stress, situations that reduce self-esteem. In this case, a frustration is a certain obstacle, because of which it is impossible to fulfill the plan. Moreover, the obstacles can be external and internal. A person may not have enough money (external obstacle) or experience, knowledge (internal). Conflicts may also be the cause: with the environment (external obstacle) or intrapersonal. Losses can act as a frustration: financial losses (external) or loss of working capacity, self-confidence (internal). Other barriers include restrictions, norms and rules, laws (external) or conscience, honesty and integrity (internal).
Only on the personality itself depends on how she will come out of this situation. This can be done constructively or destructively. Constructive forms of frustration can be called rationalization and intensification of efforts. The main destructive forms include: substitution, displacement, aggression, fixation, regression, depression.
Rationalization involves the analysis of the situation, the search for positive moments even in an unpleasant case, the justification of some conclusions for the future.
The intensification of efforts is manifested in an even greater desire to achieve the goal, the mobilization of all internal and external efforts for this.
Substitution can also sometimes be viewed in a positive way, but still this is not a solution to the current frustrating situation. Substitution is a situation where one unmet need is replaced by another.
The displacement is similar to displacement, but consists in directly changing the object of the frustrating situation. So, people suddenly start to tear to the nearest anger caused by a working relationship.
Aggression is a destructive and destructive behavior of a person, which can harm both others and the person himself. Typically, this behavior leads to certain setbacks that occur at the very last moment before achieving the desired.
Fixation is also called stereotyped behavior. These are situations when a person is obsessed with performing some useless or dangerous actions, even when it is known that they will definitely not be able to bring results.
Regression is seen as opposed to progress. This is a return to some primitive forms of behavior, a situation where a person, as they say, falls into childhood.
Depression is a depressed, depressed state of a person that can lead to the most sad consequences. With such manifestations, it is worth seeking the help of specialists.