Methods of psychological self-regulation when losing a home

Abstract

A house for each of us is not only walls and material values. Although how much pleasure we get while looking at flower pots on the window sill that have sprouted, while resting on our favorite bed or from the smell of freshly cut lawn in the yard of the house. Our house is a comfort that we built during part of our lives, spending our own time and money on it, which occupied our thoughts and created a problem of choice. The outstanding American psychologist, the founder of humanistic psychology, Abraham Maslow, whose parents, by the way, were Jewish immigrants from Kyiv, created a hierarchy of needs, according to which the primary basic human needs are physiological and safety needs. This is the minimum level of needs that every person must satisfy and seeks to satisfywithout fail. We cannot strive for social recognition, professional self-realization and self-expression until we have food to eat and a place to live. Having a home satisfies our need for security, creates a sense of confidence in the future. Under conditions when it is not possible to return the house itself, it is necessary to try to restore the feeling of home and, at the same time, the feeling of security. The feeling of home "builds" quite a long time. The duration of this period depends on the individual's motivation to create a new home for himself and on the individual's mental resources. The period for adaptation to a new city can last up to a year. People feel the most acute sense of loss from three months, when a person has already moved away from acute stress, to six months. Although these periods are quite individual.