Most of people at the birth are allocated with a self-preservation instinct, that is, aspiration in that, began to keep the life in an extreme situation. It is the most important and most important instinct which already leaves all the subsequent, for example, feeling of hunger, thirst as all this is directed to keeping the life or to adapt to any given conditions.
Self-preservation at the person
The self-preservation instinct at the person most often is connected with fear, in extreme situations you can show all the hidden opportunities about which you did not even mean. In such situations at the person force, endurance and other opportunities considerably increases. In life the manifestation of an instinct is called feelings. If to take away a self-preservation instinct from the person he as a result will die as he will cease to save himself from dangerous situations as in his life there will be no sensation of fear. Thus, the person can be run over by a car or drop out of a window of the apartment which to be on the 9th floor.
Self-preservation instinct at children
The self-preservation instinct at children appears since the birth as all actions of the child are directed to survival: the kid wants to drink, and is, and also he needs maternal care. Sometimes there is it that the instinct of self-preservation is absent. Such children very often risk to do much harm to themselves and the health, for example, the kid can get into the socket or climb on a window sill. Here it is necessary to accustom and tell parents to the child that it is dangerous and it is worth being afraid of it really.
Sometimes many people, in particular those which do extreme sports very often risk the life. But it does not mean lack of an instinct of self-preservation, it is just risk. When they really get into a situation in which they can die, an organism at the subconscious level forces itself to fight and survive. In it and difference of any instinct – it is shown only when it is really necessary. It even concerns people who decided to commit suicide, nobody says that they were not afraid to die. Considering the aforesaid it is possible to come to a conclusion that a self-preservation instinct – a life source without which the person will not be able to exist, such as, without food and without water. Such instinct is inherent not only in the person, but also animals, insects and all other living beings who are on the earth. The instinct of self-preservation can sometimes turn into the real mania and a psychological problem with which to you only the professional psychologist will help to cope.