Many people read symptoms of psychological illness and think they have everything in the book. This is because we do. Every psychological illness has a basis of normal behavior. Differences appear according to intensity and causing harm to themselves or others. There are differences between obsession, shadowing and stalking. Shadow is a Jungian term for a particular type of personal reflection relating to another person.
Jung identifies obsession as identifying the masculine or feminine counterpart in the opposite gender. This is in reference to traditional marriage arch-types. Shadowing stems from wanting to change other people because they find behavior wrong. Obsession is an appreciation of someone. Shadowing is being hostile or critical towards someone.
Obsession in the mild, normal form is fine. People find friendships, relationships, mentors and marriages when identifying a kindred spirit. Empathy and sympathy along with seeing themselves in another person makes us want to spend time with each other. This behavior is a healthy curiosity. It makes us protective and builds communities.
Obsession might become unhealthy when justifying an overly dominating presence or suffering from rejection. Continuing to obsess for a short period of time most people create distance or understand they do not know the object of obsession thoroughly and accept decisions. It is important to respect decisions and allow people to live life according to their desires.
Living in a time wherein people over-sexualize relationships many suffer from alienating each other because they are not able to acknowledge anything besides a relationship. Friendship is no longer an option until finding a lover. After establishing a lover they are able to entertain the idea of friends. People should be able to have friends, yet this system forces single people into marriage. Productive qualities interfere with change. No one wants to redirect the behavior.
Shadows are identifiable when a person becomes outraged easily or intensely motivated to fix strangers. There is a hostile response towards cantor because it relates to something in their own life they are unable to fix or they are unaware of committing a similar pattern. The threat is clearly seen in other people while the threat has obstructions when thinking of their lives.
Shadows are also a healthy activity. Shadowing creates charity and a desire to help people. Changing other people is how we increase skills and improve ourselves through understanding another person's perspective. Allowing a person to vent allows them to see their failing and improve themselves though acknowledging a hypocritical behavior. Talking fixes ourselves, turning the outward complication inward, anger and problems no longer control our lives.
Stalking is a result of obsessions and shadows. It is an unhealthy escalation. It is important to remain aware of friends and family. Let them know when they are harming themselves or others. Obsession does not usually escalate into stalking until becoming a shadow obsession.
Stalking is identifiable by violent threats of harm to another person. Gossip, rants and other behaviors do not signify stalking. All activities prior to threatening violence and determining the solution is to end another person in the world are not stalking. Violent threats, calls, gifts, messages of doom and outright hatred are how to identify a person is in the realm of stalking.
Obsession might become shadow obsession when a person copes with constant rejection or is overly responsible for fixing other people. When a person rejects them, the object of affection becomes a shadow with evil traits they are not willing to face. When a person rejects them, they decline a willingness to change with the assistance of the obsessive person. The shadow provokes violent behavior with an unruly desire to control.
It is obvious how shadows turn into stalking. They want to fix them, yet they need to fix themselves. Attempting to fix everyone else with known answers to the problem they are unable to make progress because they need to fix themselves. Outrage leads to violent behavior in individuals and groups.
Group mentality functions along the same premise. In the example of acknowledging over-sexualizing is a manipulation to encourage marriage the world might become difficult for some people. Sympathy creates an obsession to help people with similar circumstances, past or present. They are livid when people practice the behavior they are unaware is making their life miserable. Empathy with friends unites the group against "Those People." Those People must stop before ruining the entirety of existence. Without restraining the group a Messiah Complex might surface while becoming a group of violent stalkers.
Every normal, functional tendency might become a psychotic break. Most of the time people evaluate themselves and the activity is learning experience. Communication guides people into destructive or productive behavior. Correctly identifying mental illness in us and others diffuses events before it escalates. Not allowing people to think is a problem. Freedom to think and redirect anger correctly is a process. This process is how we change and improve.
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