Suddenly, not knowing how, there are people who feel they have lost their soul. The cause is usually a fear or wonder, of different origin, that generates an unpleasant sensation that stands between fear and surprise. Something sudden that feels like the heart has flown.
We all know the feeling that occurs when a particular circumstance makes us feel that life is in danger or in danger; this perception is usually real. At other times, however, it can be determined by suggestion and does not pose a danger to life.
- There are people who in the face of such situations.
- After a great scare.
- Feel that the soul has abandoned their body.
- This generates great misfortune and causes a wide and diverse symptomatology that we will analyze below.
Fear?? Also called astonishment in some places?is in the DSM-5 cultural glossary, The Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders, defined as a cultural explanation in many American peoples of psychological symptoms.
The conditions listed in DSM-5 are major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or any other trauma-related disorder and specified stressors, a trauma-related disorder and undesked stressors, and somatic symptom disorders.
The DSM-5 defines fear or wonder as
As the diagnostic system points out, symptoms can appear at any time, days, or years after the fact that it caused fear, and in extreme cases, fear or wonder can even lead to death.
Thus, although there are no specific symptoms that define this unhappiness called dread or amazement, the symptoms that are usually related to these people are:
The origin or, what is the same, the facts that make this condition appear are different, usually include natural phenomena, animals, interpersonal situations and supernatural beings, among others.
The DSM-5 identified three syndrosomal types of fear and wonder, and each has different relationships with psychiatric diagnoses. We see that fear or wonder is a denomination of various peoples for psychiatric diseases that are unknown to them.
This condition implies a really intense suffering for those affected, the different cultures that have documented the condition also attribute magical elements to its appearance.
Thus, it is curious to know how certain cultures, such as tzotziles, differentiate three types of symptoms that arise from the situation of fear or wonder (Castaldo, 2004):
This phenomenon is not homogeneous and requires further research and examination by the scientific community, that said, shock or wonder must be studied and treated in the context of American peoples, because we cannot forget its strong cultural component.