If you see that a person is: emotionally aroused, moves a lot, cries, screams, laughs at inappropriate moments, gestures excessively and, at the same time, does not react to any attempts to calm them down – you’re witnessing hysteria.
Hysteria is a specific emotional state connected to accumulated negative energy, huge stress or nervous exaggerations.
How to help another person:
- Try to keep the person away from public, it’s better to be one on one, that way hysteria will end faster;
- Do not argue or persuade them by any means, the words will not reach their goal right now but can rather cause affect increase;
- Speak confidently, your tone should be steady and calm;
- If the situation allows you to do something unexpected, do it (drop an object loudly, slam the door, shout);
- When hysteria is over, organise an opportunity to rest– it’s going to be necessary for the person.
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Not recommended:
- Using methods that are accepted among non-professionals such as slap them, spill water on them – it can be perceived as aggression
- Going by their whims and doing what the person with hysteria wants you to do
- Saying basic things: “calm down, get yourself together, everyone’s looking at us” – it is useless.
If you’re experiencing hysteria, you want to calm down but don’t know how, then:
- Wash your face with cold water;
- Drink a glass of water;
- Breathe in a square: find a rectangular object, and, following from angle to angle with your eyes, breathe slowly: breathe in pause – slowly breathe out pause;
- Breathe into a bag: your body will get more carbon dioxide and you will calm down again.
