Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Javier Navarro, in Mar. 2015
Our ability to reason normally can be disturbed and confused and on these occasions we say that we are confused. Thus, obfuscation is the situation of distortion of understanding. You could say that it is a temporary mental disorder.
In everyday language we say that someone is obsessed, blinded or fascinated by something, which indicates a degree of obfuscation, in the sense that he cannot think clearly. The lack of lucidity is the main characteristic of this type of situation.
Four different forms of obfuscation
The force Of anger
Anger or fury They are feelings of great intensity. The anger-dominated individual has a drive that is difficult to control. What produces this reaction affects your reasoning and is unable to calm down because it is dominated by a obsession. His embarrassment emotional it has the typical features of obfuscation.
The ways of love
In a passionate and intense love situationIt is not easy to think calmly. Psychologists and poets have described love as a form of
alienation mental. In fact, passionate love is known as blind love, in the sense that reality is ignored and one lives in a state of bewilderment. If love is not reciprocated, the embarrassment can be even greater, reaching extreme situations (not being hungry, deep depression or doing something crazy in the face of despair that one feels). The fascination of love is therefore a clear manifestation of obfuscation.Addiction Scenario
It is known to all that some drugs disturb the mind. The individual who suffers from withdrawal syndrome (popularly known as the monkey) has the irrepressible urge to consume drugs. The drug addict is mentally dominated and it is not easy for him to control this situation. In fact, he occasionally has hallucinations (and in this case the hallucination is a variant of obfuscation).
In the field of health
The obsessive compulsive disorder is a disease serious mental. Those who suffer from it have an uncontrolled and obsessive inclination towards something. It can manifest itself in the form of mental rituals, repetitive actions, aggressive ideas, unwarranted fears, and other such patterns. This disorder is also a form of obfuscation, since the affected person is deeply disturbed in his understanding.
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