Much of the world celebrated Halloween on October 31 each year, or as some call it a "feast of terror," a day full of tricks, horrifying atmosphere, and the dessert of adult children.
The idea of "Halloween" is based on a set of rituals of panic and fear, where many people try to decorate their homes and turn it into a ghost house, through the play of horrible music and lighting candles, while children wear clothes dedicated to the day, most of them are terrifying, such as vampire clothes and Dracula, They try to integrate into the air despite their young age.
These celebrations are not limited to families and homes, but have begun to spread to schools, nurseries and clubs, as a kind of fun and unloading energies, where families accept to buy supplies of alarming clothes and skulls and others.
But will this affect the mental health of young people in the future?
A question the Emirates Today asked psychiatric and educational experts in an attempt to find positive ways to deal with this celebration.
On the impact of this celebration on the psyche of the child, said psychiatrist, Nader Yaghi, that children are greatly affected their psyche Halloween, which is a manifestation of horror, and often have to interact with them, explaining that «the child under five suffers problems in distinguishing between reality and fiction, Therefore, this negatively affects his psychological state in the future, and can make him a person is not normal ».
`` Children between the ages of eight and 12 years have fertile memories to keep memories and scenes, and they feel very scared during Halloween, because of real violence in front of their eyes, such as strangers storming their homes or lining up children in their garden wearing terrifying clothes. ''
“Once people at a young age are intimidated or live in a horrifying atmosphere, there is a strong likelihood that they will be exposed to several bad things in the future, including terrorism, sleep disturbances, and sometimes entering a crisis of involuntary urination. To develop if not dealt with through the intervention of psychiatry, pointing out that «the child will find it difficult to deal with the feast of terror again, if he has been traumatized or severe intimidation, and can develop into a sense of fear in the future when seeing skeletons Or blood, or facial scars, or candles, no matter how Omar, must therefore prevent children somewhat from living in an atmosphere of terror in order to preserve the health of Halloween, and only Baanvalyat based on fun and not fear ».
Yaghi stresses that he does not mind that children have fun in Halloween «but must control the proportion of horror they see during the day, with the need to stay away from telling the scary stories of them, because these things remain in their minds, and can affect their lives as they progress in After the Halloween, the child can suffer from fear and horror during the night hours, lose the ability to sleep, and feel anxiety and hyper alertness, and thus will affect his school and social life, and the situation can develop into thinking about negative things and sad emotions affect In the course of his life ».
For her part, advises the educational expert, Rasha Kredy, that «it is better to start participating in Halloween from the age of adolescence, because the perception is greater than the age of childhood and adolescence itself, and therefore will not have a significant negative impact», pointing out that she spotted herself Some mothers suffered as a result of their children's behavioral changes when they participated in the Feast of Horror, where they experienced fear and horror during the night hours, during which they lost the ability to sleep, and felt anxiety and hyper vigilance, and thus negatively affected their school and social life.
"Some children, especially those under seven years of age, can experience increased anxiety, causing them to experience panic attacks after the next Halloween, or extreme fear when watching movies that contain violence or intimidation," she said. Excessive, violent and bloody, the least effects of these rituals on the child's psyche, especially as he is exposed to scenes of horror full of scenery of blood and distorted faces, and when the child is attracted to such events here sound the alarm », and warns the educational expert that« small raised by these scenes and continue to follow them , Basically have a willingness to practice Violence, and this bloody will not stop at childhood, but will break it, then we will reap the fruits of these festive feasts to become a generation raised to the culture of applause for the bloodiest ».
Nader Yaghi:
Phobia and anxiety
And hyper-alertness, the most important
Halloween Effects
In the child ».
Rasha Kreidieh:
«Better to start
Participation in
(Halloween) after age
Adolescence.
- Scary events
Remain reserved
In mind and affect
With age
- The little one who gets used
On the viewer
Be frightening in
The foundation has a ready
For violence