Mental imbalance, or psychological immaturity, makes itself felt when we compulsively have to express every impulse, every impression or thought and satisfy every instinct that arises within us. In addition, our surroundings, like a child, sense themselves equally compelled to think, feel and be absorbed in the same experience as the one experiencing it. Such a naive and undeveloped mental state is still in such an imbalance, provided that it is not a child, that it cannot yet perceive that every expression that we cannot carry within ourselves will promote the same in our surroundings. In this way we confuse our own impressions and impulses with those of others in a way that makes everyone a participant in what is happening within ourselves. If we are tense and anxious. Worried, agitated or hostile and defensive, that is what we more or less intentionally try to transform our surroundings into as a reflection of ourselves in it. The same thing if we are enraptured or enthralled. We behave like adult children, like mentally undeveloped people without having had the experience of our mental equilibrium, of its function as the process that makes us aware of our inner imbalance and how it creates a structural psychological discomfort for everyone around us to bear in our place. We have not yet undergone the perspective change that means when we are grounded in our own being, and where we laboriously grow in the experience of the psychic balance that means being able to observe oneself and what happens within us in constant meditative self-reflection. Childlike people in this sense have no psychic content, they are not involved in this process, in what is going on inside them, and find themselves only as a reference to the environment they are in. If we choose to subject ourselves to the psychological strain of excessive compromises and cognitive limitations, and the environment that imposes them on us ceases to exist, or we choose to leave it for the authenticity of the psychic life we have within us, we are freed from the watertight mental bulkheads that have held together the psychic environment that maintained them. The facade it has created for a contrived psychic structure, and all the compromises within us that have held it together, collapse upon us, and all the vulnerability and repressed authenticity that has been hidden beneath it well up. Powerful forces in our psyche are released from their previously repressed states and are liberated, and all sorts of things then happen when we cannot yet face them for what they are but are lured into the psychic world that is their reality, and we confuse the mental world with the physical, the states they create with the processes we encounter there with them. We are invited to share their world, not remain there. That would drive us crazy. If we are not ready for this and can observe it with the function and support of our mental balance, it can be as mentally devastating as imposing our own conditioned and corrective limitations on people around us. Because it does not assume that there are individual aspects of our psyche that others are completely independent of. That there are personal experiences of common processes in our psyche that only they have access to.