'Psychological suffering' is a better phrase than 'psychological ailment'.
The reason is ego or arrogance, prejudiced mind or superstitious attitude, stressful thinking, and emotional sickness are all concerned with the implicit or explicit troubles of life.
Getting rid of these psychological sufferings can be easy.
But, at the same time, it may be difficult also.
In most cases, sufferers think that their way of thinking is quite right while the advice of their counselor is not only wrong but annoying also.
However, whatever the sufferers may think of the advice of their counselors, they should be given mental support.
Support and inspiration can give them respite from suffering psychologically.
There are many people who see everything to be wrong.
It is a sign of pessimism and the number of such people is quite amazing.
Among those people, there are a number of very pragmatic persons of the society also.
They suffer too from various psychological malfunctions such as errant egotism, unbridled emotional thinking, or prejudiced and jaundiced thinking.
Let's explore what the traits and treatment are for these mental sufferings.
Ego Errant: The ego, raw and unpolished, guides thinking and, subsequently, actions.
In such cases, the people are selfish, arrogant and socially disintegrated.
Such people manufacture misery, whatever the conditions, whatever the persons they rub shoulders with.
Ego-centric thinking is the unhappy product of sick emotion sentiment, rather than robust commonsense or sound logic.
Such persons most often fly to rage on trifles.
Any comment, gesture or action, which supposedly threatens the wall of their ego, is strongly repulsed.
Mostly, their actions are reactions.
They are touchy to the core and cannot bear any rubbing, emotional or intellectual.
They are immature.
They think very high of themselves.
In fact, this is a defensive mechanism to guard against their smallness.
They fear that real understanding will reveal their hollowness and pettiness.
Hence, they are always on the offensive.
Rudeness is the strength of a weak man! Treatment for Errant Egotism: To get rid of errant egotism, sufferers are to first accept the world.
They have to remember that it was there before they came here.
It will continue to be here after they have made their exit.
The world does not exist to please them.
It owes them nothing.
It is too big for that.
Learn to be socially useful.
They should try to integrate themselves in family, friendly and social circles, and to become humble.
Arrogance will earn arrogance and retaliation.
The society, in this respect at least, is based on intolerance.
It derives a peculiar delight in cutting swollen heads to size and deflating the windbags.
They should cultivate a sense of humor and not to take themselves seriously.
They have to learn to laugh at their own infirmities.
Thus, they will be able to gradually shed ego-centricity.
Unbridled Emotional Thinking: There is a type of man who tends to think more with the heart than with the head.
It needs not to be stressed that such thinking hardly qualifies to be called thinking.
It is feverish activity of the heart, only remotely linked with thinking, cool and dispassionate.
A large number of failures among the young is born out of their untruly tendency to be easily swayed by emotional thinking.
Suicides, unhappy love affairs and sick marriages are also the outcome of sick emotional thinking.
Treatment for Unbridled Emotional Thinking: To avoid emotional feelings, do not act in the white heat of feeling.
Let the sentiment cool.
Procrastination pays in this respect.
This postponement will lend objectivity and logic to thinking.
Another useful method is to eliminate emotion-charged words, phrases, etc.
from vocabulary.
Substitute them by cold and logical ones.
They seep into the subconscious.
As people grow they gather opinions, attitude, etc.
on a large number of subjects, without ever pausing to think whether they are rational or irrational.
Most are jaundiced, and full of prejudice.
Amazingly, they retain them for a life-time, without trying to test their validity.
This is best illustrated by a fable.
A criminal is sentenced for a long imprisonment term.
He is put behind bars.
He spends fourteen years in that cell, not once trying to see if the cell is locked or open.
It was open all the years!