Is Rejection, Detachment?
By; Erharhine Susan Oberhiri
"I’m not my usual self anymore, I find it hard to trust anyone because most people who I thought were my friends are pretenders. I can’t remove the negativity of father figures and psychologically I feel not worth it, rejected and alone. I try to act strong but most times I wish I was never alive”
quoted by an individual who would rather wish to remain anonymous.
“Rejection” one word which has different meanings attached to it but explains one thing “detachment”. It means an exclusion from a group, an interaction or an emotional intimacy. Funny realization about this is that most individuals have had an experience of this one way or the other.
Rejection comes in three forms which are
1. Social Rejection
2. Parental Rejection
3. Emotional/Romantic Rejection
The latter happens to be a common occurrence presently. Parental rejection may consist of neglect, abandonment, and abuse. This affects the individual’s thoughts psychologically throughout his or her lifetime. This is mostly found in broken homes, single parenting. The adverse effect of this in a child of either sex are low self-esteem, self-doubt, anger, frequent criticizing of self-worth, loneliness and hatred for the opposite sex. All these creates different psychological abnormalities in which its progress is slow but a disastrous one. Emotional or romantic rejection, on the other hand involves no mutual connection or feeling from both individuals or partners. The major issue as regards to this is no proper definition of the relationship from the onset, this results in friend zones. And in some cases; being in a relationship but no open communication. The feelings or behaviour associated with this are depression, change in one’s view of the attitude of the opposite sex, thereby creating a generalization based on the experience you have had with them. One common expression is “All men are the same”
Another one is settling for less when he or she deserves more. The remedy for all rejection starts from the individual. This involves accepting your flaws which is your truth, loving yourself (the moment you do everything falls in place), reviving your self-esteem, confidence and self-worth by listing out things which makes you unique as your achievements, and lastly relating with those who see the best in you and also help in creating a better version of yourself. For parental rejection, this is dealt with by counselling and sometimes psychotherapy.
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