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Increasing anger and insulting events happening recent days made people wonder about the psychological reasons underlying these actions. Onur Okan Demirci, a psychiatrist, said that this condition was caused by deep psychological effects.

Stating that, “Among the most important reasons for this, there is an attempt to close the gaps that one feels deficient in itself. One may resort to the way of insulting the person by revealing his / her emotions as insufficiency or fearing to be noticed”, Asst. Prof. Dr. Onur Okan Demirci from Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU), Psychology Department added: “When the person cannot accept that he/she is unfair, he/she may try to suppress this feeling by insult. With the fear of facing injustice, trying to cover the situation insulting can be used. With the concern of the appearance of a lie, the person may experience anger control problem and try to overthrow the situation and become dominant.”
 
“THE MOST RIMARY REASON IS OPRESSING THE WEAK BY THE STRONG”

Psychriatist Demirci continued his words as follows:

“The insulting person usually chooses someone who is physically or emotionally weaker than him or selects someone below the status. Because he thinks that the character he sees as weaker than him cannot resist, he feels confident that his feelings of inadequacy will not be revealed and he feels stronger. Here is the simplest, fundamental reason behind the psychology of oppressing the weaker in nature. The higher the person sees himself or herself, the more it will hurt to downgrade. The main responsible for this situation, which can be called narcissism in psychology, may not actually be the insulting person. Society, family, social environment play a major role in the nutrition of this narcissism. As the expectations grow, the person will inflate himself/herself to meet these expectations. Like a balloon. But the more balloon is filled, the more it will sound when it explodes. Every person needs some narcissism to find a role in life. Sufficient dose of narcissism makes the person and the people around him feel good, but when he is overdosed, it will be felt very uncomfortable around. The narcissistic lion, which is the king / queen of the forests, roars so hard to protect itself and its environment that everybody seeks holes to escape. In it world that turned into a horror empire, it was left alone.”

LONELINESS DENIES EMPHATY

Emphasizing that loneliness will destroy empathy ability, faculty member of IGU Department of Psychology Asst. Prof. Onur Okan Demirci said: “He cannot understand the feelings of the other person and feels nothing when he oppresses the other. According to him, every time he is right. The offense with a narcissistic impulse is directed towards intimidating the other side. The narcissist who thinks that he is victorious, continues his life alone, thinking that he is strong and right.”