Clowns arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina: What is behind the bizarre trend and what psychologists say?

Dangerous and very bizarre trend in recent years rapidly expanding planet, apparently arrived and in our country. Unfortunately, although it seemed that they would be able to resist, we have not remained immune. We're talking about madness appearance of evil clowns who for weeks rampaging around the world jumping out of the bushes, brandishing knives, chasing people, fearing the children in and around schools, popping in on cyclists ...

Halloween

Creepy clowns were first noticed in Greenville, South Carolina in August. According to the police report, several of them attempted to lure children into the woods, and since then they started raging in more than 20 states in the United States, and has so far arrested dozens of people.In Germany, the recent attempt of a teenager to intimidate a group of young people wearing the mask of a clown and a hammer on a street in Berlin gone wrong, because it is another boy injured with a knife. Police said the 14-year-old pulled out a knife and stabbed the clown who turned out that his 16-year-old companion. He pointed him first aid until the ambulance arrived. The older teenager was taken to hospital, while the 14-year-old returned to her parents.

And in Croatia recorded the appearance of clowns. The two boys aged 13 and 14 years were able to escape masked person in a clown who tried to catch them in Knin street to Osijek narrow fields. Croatian media have reported that the creepy clown and seen in Zagorje.The Slovenes are not spared bizarre madness. In the town of Jesenice, in the northwest, clowns for several days afraid residents, especially children. They move most near an elementary school, the bus station and park. Slovenian police detained two young Jeseničan who, dressed in clowns, roamed around the city.

When it comes to our country, clowns, according to the portal Grude Online, recently observed at three locations in Posusje - at the mall Beautiful, in a park and next to the gas station INA.However, what would complete the globe should be particularly concerned about is a story that has been circulating the Internet - will clowns around the world for the upcoming Halloween, which is celebrated on 31 October, to do mass crimes, modeled after the movie "Purge".

Police largely powerless, and no experts have no real answer to the question why people decide to disguise a clown and spreading fear and panic among the people.

psychological seal

The psychologist Jasminka Dizdarevic talking to Avaz.ba points out that clowns drowned in greyness that holds our country, which gives one negative psychological mark for the entire generation, and even for those who operate "normally".

- This is not healthy, nor good and points to serious consequences depletion of our entire intellect. Instead of dealing with some sort of advanced things, we deal with the most basic of life - that can calmly go out on the street that nobody threatens and you can calmly go home - she said Dizdarevic.If you are behind the masks of clowns in BiH appear young person, as he states, among them one can not speak about the consequences of war, but the consequences of ill-mannered and their disengagement in the true sense.

- Are these students, whether they are students, whether they are people who work, whether they are people who were seized with anxiety of life, so they can think of some nonsense that could endanger their lives and others. I wonder what is going on, whether it's people boring, but look for some kind of entertainment that is not appropriate for this is not our area, not for customs, but not for some kind of common sense, or is it some kind of consequences of the war that is now occurring in people - said Dizdarevic.

Points out that clowns usually joyful and entertaining characters, and a symbol of carefree pastime.

- However, incidents of these clowns no longer corresponds to the right mental state behavior of the person in it is because that person disguised in something that is nice, but in my heart of hearts carry the evil, with the intent to hurt someone else. We need to leverage that clearly point to something that is not good and what needs to be changed - concluded Dizdarevic.

benign game

Sociologist Jusuf Ziga says today in a world often present a urges people who want to draw attention to themselves, with a view to the environment rather benign play with.However, states can also be a person with an extremely serious social-pathological disorders, people who are burdened in their mindset.

- It is essential that a society in which such characters appearance is ready for such a thing, and not to start vacillate and to those who are supposed to run under the control of public order and the safety of people find themselves in some sort of discrepancy and confusion, but they do not know how to answer that. So you have to be a certain team of people that will be able to adequately respond to such phenomena - said Ziga.He says that in all this there is the "halo effect" of what is happening in the world. However, it is considered, the worst is that in our society reacts only after the consequences.

- People will generally respond to first confusing as long as they themselves are faced with these things, and that others are not received in a timely manner to help, to help them in these situations better cope or get away from them, or that others can do with For his part that such a phenomenon can not be - he said Ziga.

Coulrophobia - fear of clowns

The phobia of clowns called Coulrophobia, which is relatively rare phobia. Scientists and doctors believe it is caused when ignorance is actually hiding behind a thick layer of makeup.The fear of clowns can cause a sense of panic, difficulty breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating and nausea. A phobia is more common in children, but adults can suffer from it, but can be treated with cognitive behavioral therapy.

Costumes clown usually overly emphasize and enhance facial features and body parts such as arms, legs and nose. It can be experienced as monstrous or deformity such as can be experienced and comical. Expressed abnormalities in the face of a clown can change the appearance of a person to the extent that the figure acts live enough to be disturbing, but not sufficiently realistic to her appearance was favorable.Clowns have always been associated with danger and fear because moving the logic to the limit. They push the human enlightenment and understanding to the limits of common sense, but to make a joke and ridicule.

• 28 Oct, 2016
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