Megalomania

Identify megalomania is not so easy. In appearance, it may seem that a person is either just joking or having such a mood. To determine, psychiatrists conduct special tests, watch patients for a long time.

As experts say, there are several symptoms that you can identify yourself. So, in a person suffering from megalomania,constantly suspicious mood, also the person suffers from mood variability, and cardinal. It can change several times throughout the day.

Increased activity, loquacity (thoughts outstrip words), lowering the need for sleep, increasing self-esteem, increasing sexual energy - these symptoms in the complex are megalomania.

Ask the person you are trying to expose, whether he considers himself smarter, prettier, more talented, more popular (smarter, wiser, sexier, etc.). If he answers all the questions - "Yes!" - in front of you is the crowned person.

There is an opinion that megalomania - this hidden inferiority complex. And this is really so - dissatisfactionflaws in appearance, lack of balance in something make a person strive to surpass all others, but in something else: in work, in study. More often than not, the feeling of a deceitful superiority is manifested in careerism, an irresistible desire to learn as much as possible in the field of different sciences, to learn as many smart words as possible to "crush the intellect". At the same time, the megalomaniacs do not understand that it is not interesting for those around to hear about space, genetic research or the conquests of Genghis Khan.

The megalomania is often accompanied by aggression, people, to whom it is inherent, create for societygreat burden. One more manifestation of megalomania is a complex of an excellent pupil, it manifests itself among girls and women in the desire to be the first and best in everything: the upbringing of children, cooking, appearance.

How to help such people? It is important to know that people withoutthere are, some have less, some have more. Any person with whom we communicate, to some extent afraid of appearing ridiculous or stupid before the interlocutor, this is the main reason for using the whole arsenal of knowledge in conversation. Try not to rudely say to a person that you are not interested in this topic, that you can not say anything in support of the topic.

People with megalomania sometimes remind me unobtrusively that they are not the center of the universe, they criticize. In no case can not dance to their tune, remember, they are trying to manipulate you. It's easier to say: "I will not do this!", "I do not want to!".

If you have defined, that your friend, friend, someone fromyour entourage megalomania, do not try to oppress it, do not use aggression, know that megalomania is very easily transformed into an inferiority complex and other more serious mental disorders.

If you are frankly irritated by the behaviorinterlocutor, try to portray him, behave like him, copy the manner of conversation, gesture, repeat the words he says. Very soon he will get tired of it and he will calm down, curb his emotions. Sometimes a person can irritate you, so much so that you want to cause him physical pain, harm, you need to remember that this is all a temporary phenomenon. It is better not to waste your nerves on communication with maniacal individuals, if you can not cope with such a person, better just ignore it.