Susceptibility, what is it?

The broadest definition of susceptibility includes the " likelihood of something happening"; "that which is capable of being modified or of receiving an impression from something or someone" and "a person who suffers emotional changes easily", among others. The propensity to alterations would be the most relevant point.

This term is associated with fragility, sensitivity, and vulnerability. From the psychological point of view, it would precisely imply a certain vulnerability to stimuli, which cause reactions or mood changes in the person. In this way, a joke or a comment that for others may seem insignificant, in people with these characteristics it can be a source of anguish or irritability.

A little stimulation can affect your mood throughout the day. That is why it is important that if it affects the person's daily life, treatment can be started, which implies increasing the ability to deal with conflicts.

This feature is assimilated, as we mentioned earlier, to the concept of sensitivity or hypersensitivity that, in a similar way, characterizes people who are easily affected by environmental stimuli.

Susceptibility, however, is more associated with irritable and even aggressive defensive issues. People with this trait can react aggressively to situations that appear insignificant to other people, and sometimes the environment does not understand what could have caused this reaction.

As part of the definition indicates, what is susceptible changes its form easily, is affected, transformed, irritated, or exalted with little effort, and with the minimum of exchange. They are people who absorb what happens around them, the moods of another, they can alter theirs, and any change in the environment can drastically change their own mood.

The defensive position is, at times, so inflexible that it prevents us from reflecting or taking what happens with relativity. It happens then that the responses become very automatic and unconscious, they are activity before stimuli that function as a "trigger". Before their environment, they can appear as people who take everything very seriously or personally.

From the point of view of Jungian Analytical Psychology, and from the theory of complexes, we can think that we are susceptible in the areas that our complexes touch. And many times, if we do not know them and they are far beyond our reach, they appear virulently before the associations that are linked to them.

In these situations the complex takes control, takes control, causing the individual to react in this way. We can notice this because the environment usually asks: "What's wrong?", "This is not him/her", or the popular saying in Argentina: "What bug bit him?"

In such moments the person changes abruptly explode or reacts instead of responding through reflection. It transforms when something touches an issue that constitutes a conflict.

Although from the Jungian perspective, the complexes will continue to exist since they are naturally part of the psyche, susceptibility is worked on if we make contact with the aspects that most irritate us, with those that cause these reactions and try to get into them, associate and express.

The more access to our internal world we have, those defensive responses will decrease and the intensity of that susceptibility will probably decrease.

 

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