The war started by Russia has been going on for half a year, and during this time more and more people notice that they are no longer so afraid of sirens and the sounds of explosions.

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Psychologists and psychotherapists told what is happening to us now, writes "

What is happening now with our psyche.

The key psychological concept in this situation is adaptation, says psychologist Valentin Kim..

“When people say they are used to war, they are deceiving themselves a little.. Here, rather, we are not talking about addiction, but in a sense about self-deception and self-hypnosis, about demonstrating our strength and confidence, and this is a necessary condition for us to feel more or less normal.. We want to show others and ourselves that in fact the sirens and all the events of the last six months do not cause us pain, anxiety and anxiety.. That is, we are trying to inspire ourselves with a state in which we feel good, ”he assured.

According to the psychologist, behind the phrase " This is avoidance, devaluation of danger and adaptation, partly associated with emotional numbness from what is happening.. But the numbness itself most often occurs when a person is directly on the front line and really faces the consequences of threats..

Psychotherapist Maria Fabricheva also believes that the current state of many Ukrainians is a consequence of the ability of our psyche to adapt..

“Our psyche is designed in such a way that it can adapt and displace some things. She does everything so that a person can survive. Now, from the “central front” of the brain, information about the war has moved to other areas: for some, it has become just a background,” she said..

According to her, people from the war gradually began to switch to other equally important things: preparation for winter (which is also important for survival), the beginning of the school year.

Of course, people are “returned to memory” by the sound of a siren or an arrival, but at the same time they are not 100% “included in the war” all the time.

What happens to us at the level of physiology and what to do.

As the psychotherapist, psychiatrist Tina Beradze explained, when some extraordinary things happen to a person, the amygdala turns on - the part of the human brain responsible for the release of adrenaline and including the “fight or flight” response.

“People experience severe stress in different ways: there are genetic factors, there is individual stress resistance.. There is such a term as desensitization. This is when the first arrival occurs, then the second, followed by the third - and the amygdala gets used to it, the production of a large amount of adrenaline becomes constant, therefore, the norm. Some of my relatives who stayed in Kyiv often tell me that they are very anxious even when there are no sirens and when they don’t arrive. This is a dysfunctional disorder of the amygdala and this condition is post-traumatic disorder,” she said..

The specialist considers acceptance of the situation to be the only effective method..

“The Austrian psychotherapist Viktor Frankl, who went through concentration camps, later wrote that people who panicked from the beginning of their stay in a concentration camp did not survive.. Those who looked at the situation with over-optimism did not survive either.. Those who accepted the situation survived,” she stressed..

What will be the consequences.

Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Practical Psychology of the National University "

But getting used to tragedy is bad.

“There are misfortunes, tragic events, many people experience grief. If a person gets used to it, he loses the ability to empathize, becomes thick-skinned. This is a psychological defense mechanism, emotional reactions are blunted. The same thing happened, say, among the victims of concentration camps, ”she said..

The professor emphasized that emotional sensitivity will return to the majority of people after the victory.. There will be those whose reaction will not be normal, however, as a rule, such people are no more than 3%.

She also said that people who were overtaken by the war in adulthood, the psyche will recover faster..

“25 years after the Second World War, studies were conducted, the results of which showed that the psyche of people who survived the Holocaust as adults recovered - only small traces of that experience remained.. At the same time, children have certain consequences. That is, the younger the person, the longer the consequences of a traumatic experience remain, ”she shared..