The bad conscience with all it's insistent prodding is intended to make you look at God's rule book again. The fact of fear. Few people admit that fear is another cause, but it is true. You fear to confide to others the truth about yourself in case they might laugh. Perhaps you know fellows who act big for fear of being judged too young for the gang, and girls who bestowed their personal favors for fear of losing boyfriends.
Fear draws it's victims together in groups where nagging pains can be temporarily forgotten.
Wild dress styles, frenzied dancing, drink, sex, drugs- all help to keep life moving, and push fears and problems into the background. It is a sham life. No wonder many hate themselves for the hold it has on them, and are dismayed because they cannot throw off it's grip. The haunting reality of loneliness. Another cause is loneliness.