We are tired, annoyed, offended by someone or fate, and then there is a flea market on the bus, in the queue in the store, the boss gave overtime. How often does the sacramental "I hate people" pop into our head at a moment like this? Of course, this is a transitory emotion. As a rule, getting up on the wrong foot, we are able to get angry at the whole world.
But as soon as the streak of bad luck or small mischief clears up, we are very good-natured. However, sometimes things are more complicated. It is no coincidence that for many the statement "I hate people, I love only animals" becomes a life position. What causes such misanthropy? Is it only beliefs or life experience? The way they call people who hate people is precisely what is translated as "misanthropes." Misanthropes. But what does this really mean? An extreme form of psychopathy, when they seek to destroy all life? Or despair and hopelessness in search of a common language with others?
Everything depends on the social conditions of personality development, on the initialprerequisites. If the main reason for rejecting the society of one's own kind was contempt, ridicule, humiliation, it can be assumed that for such a person the words "I hate people" mean serious deviations.
It is not for nothing that victimologists and profilers, or psychopathologists, believe that it is the victims of violence and rejection who become criminals and vandals in the future. They take revenge on all of humanity and specific individuals for the pain that they experienced in childhood or adolescence. Of course, such extreme states are not always reached. More often than not, the words "I hate people" are just a posture, a desire to attract attention. Or an expression of extreme fatigue.
We all have different levels of social adaptation, different communication needs and opportunities. The one who feels best in solitude, in creative work, does not necessarily mean by the words "I hate people" a real desire to cause harm or destroy their own kind. Much more often this is just an exaggeration, which, nevertheless, shows the characterological features of this person. If some people cannot imagine life without communication, then it is difficult for others to squeeze out an extra word. And not at all because they are shy - they simply do not see the need for unnecessary chatter and exchange of impressions.
Whether a person is an introvert (immersed in himself) or an extrovert (turned to others) depends far fromjust from education. First of all, these personality traits are determined by the type of nervous system, the characteristics of the processes of excitation and inhibition, the speed and intensity of emotional reactions. And these are just variants of the norm.
But a person who hates other people so much that it makes his life difficult needs help. After all, it is one thing to simply avoid excessive communication, and another to live in constant tension and conflict with oneself and others. Psychiatrists and psychologists can help such a person. Very often, behind the words "I hate people" lies a deeper meaning: "People don't understand me, they don't accept me, they condemn me."
Each of us is influenced by others, more or less intensely responding to it. And only serious psychological problems can exacerbate hostility towards others so much that it becomes dangerous for the person himself or his loved ones. In any case, alarming symptoms - the desire to fence off, retire, avoid any form of communication - deserve close attention. Most often, these are the first signs of depression, which can be de alt with with the support of loved ones and, if desired, by the person himself.
