The girl in the psychologist’s office, squeezed into a chair and said quietly. “I want to tell you about my fear of Coronavirus... What they write and say in the media... it’s terrible... what awaits us?...” Her fingers dug into the back of the chair, her knuckles turned white, and she began to cry desperately... We often associate extreme situation, as a real event that has had or continues to have an impact on us. But what I’ve been encountering lately is that “INFORMATION” itself is already that factor, that event that has an extreme and stressful impact on us. This is information that we receive from mass communications and information systems. The message we receive when faced with this information. We received this message once or this information is constantly duplicated and comes to us from different channels and sources, which have a very powerful negative impact on a person on his psyche, physical condition and behavior. A person’s behavior itself and his reaction to extreme information is largely determined by a feeling of fear and This is fine. This helps to mobilize the physical and mental state. But when the feeling of fear is so strong that it exceeds the acceptable threshold and a person loses a critical attitude towards his own fear and is unable to control his actions and make logically based decisions. When metacommunication with the outside world and other people disappears, when a person is completely absorbed in extreme states. Various psychotic disorders and a state of panic, affect, or a person falls into a stupor appear. When a person finds himself in an extreme situation after receiving Information, he goes through several stages. At the first stage, when meeting information for the first time, a person either ignores it, does not perceive it, marginalizes it, or experiences incredible mental stress , feeling of fear and despair. The information itself shocks him. At the second stage, when the information reaches awareness, feelings of anxiety, confusion, panic reactions, depressive states begin to predominate, there is no motivation for activity, and moral standards of behavior decrease. Or a person is trying to understand this information, analyze it. Understand its truthfulness. And is looking for possible options on how to cope with it. Or continues to ignore it and does not relate to it in any way. At the third stage, a person overestimates his own experiences and sensations. Overestimates the information that has come to him. If information comes from mass media, then the nature of such information may change. Various additional information is received and along with it further developments of events are described. The condition may gradually stabilize. Informational traumatic factors change a person’s view of life and himself. Or they can become chronic and perpetuate the disorder and contribute to the severe mental condition PTSD. A person’s behavior in a suddenly developed extreme situation is largely determined by the emotion of fear, which to a certain extent can be considered physiologically normal, since it contributes to the emergency mobilization of the physical and mental state necessary for self-preservation. With the loss of a critical attitude towards one’s own fear, the appearance of difficulties in purposeful activities, the decrease and disappearance of the ability to control actions and make logically based decisions, various psychotic disorders (reactive psychoses, affective-shock reactions), as well as states of panic, are formed. Signs of extreme conditions. These states can occur as background and not be associated with the experience of the information that a person receives from the media. Directing attention to various physical, emotional and behavioral manifestations will help identify the causes of them..