Interdisciplinary Studies on the Human Condition
the easiest to shape in this regard, and when the environment has no influences but rather deprivations, the human brain undergoes real changes. Thus, half of the institutionalized children who grow up in an environment where attachments are different by the age of 16 meet the criteria for psychiatric disorders compared to youths who have not been institutionalized, in which case only 15% meet the criteria for such disorders. An article from Nature (Sonuga-Barke et al, 2017) gives the example of the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) Study, where children adopted before 6 months have a lack of psychiatric symptoms similar to those who did not spend time in government care, as opposed to those adopted after 6 months. Thus, fundamentally underscoring the importance of primary attachment and the environment that makes pre- existing human traits vulnerable. Vulnerability also arises from the contradictory moments of limiting situations that create cognitive dissonance in individuals. Cambridge Dictionary describes cognitive dissonance as “a state in which there is a difference between your experiences or behavior and your beliefs about what is true” (2025). This can lead individuals to make decisions contrary to their normal ways of acting and to form incorrect attachments and contradictory ethical values. Thus, we observe the inability of a person to remain unaffected by the environment in which they live and by the factors to which they are constrained. The decisions we make define us; everything we decide creates a significant consequence in our lives. In the professional or personal environment, we make decisions, we surround ourselves with certain people, and we begin to look at our reflection in what we do. We have the impression that we are the ones who go through unique experiences, only to find out that the independence of our experience does not make it unique but distinct from the subjective way in which the person next to us saw it when they went through it. Of course, we go through moments that take a different form, but we end up having the same feelings and lessons, which make us integrate into society while remaining marked and conditioned by what happened to us. The similarities we observe
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