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There's a psychology behind it.
I have tried to warn friends and family about the effects of Covid infections. I don't blame them for blowing me off when most of society has moved on. Mostly they see it as just another flu. The "You just have to live your life" comment is often used. This article helped me understand why most people just don't want to know.
Reactance (psychology)
Reactance is an unpleasant motivational arousal (reaction) to offers, persons, rules, or regulations that threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms. Reactance occurs when a person feels that someone or something is taking away their choices or limiting the range of alternatives. Reactances can occur when someone is heavily pressured to accept a certain view or attitude. Reactance can cause the person to adopt or strengthen a view or attitude that is contrary to what was intended, and also increases resistance to persuasion. People using reverse psychology are playing on reactance, attempting to influence someone to choose the opposite of what they request.
(via Reactance (psychology) - Wikiwand)
Reactance
Today I learned the term for the desire to do the very opposite of what you’re told - reactance. “The motivational force to restore lost or threatened freedom”. It doesn’t appear to be a very well researched phenomenon, but what has been found so far is, probably to no one’s surprise, that reactance is high in people with BPD. (x)
Anyway, that definition alone makes a few things a whole lot clearer to me, and I like having some kind of frame of reference for my odd behavioral quirks...
Not my second thought
"I don't like to be told what to do." No one likes to be told what to do. It's called reactance. It happens when one fears their freedom of choice is threatened. Some would say it's when the free will of one feels restricted. Of course, that depends on whether you believe in free will or how you define free will. Ignoring the reason why we are able to go on about our day is because of those biochemicals in our body, one might go to Paris and say they are there because they have free will. But there must be a driving force for them to be there. Murphy's Law says anything that can go wrong will go wrong. If something can't happen, it won't happen. If it happened, it's because it could happen.
Today I deeply fascinated by this
https://study.com/academy/lesson/brehms-reactance-theory-definition-lesson-quiz.html
https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/psychology/reactance-theory
A response to mental health gaslighting.
As Covid continues to spread worldwide, many people are finding it difficult to accept reality. They refuse to examine facts, even when they’re presented in forms that are easy to comprehend. Instead, they insist on reclaiming an obsolete version of “normal” that involves large indoor gatherings without any precautions.
Reactance.
reactance
Websites:
http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/social-influence/reactance/
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUw6BbGlAnM
