There
is a strong connection which bonds apathy and other mental illnesses. For instance apathy is a symptom of
schizophrenia and the many people who have a schizophrenic diagnosis show
little interest in people, events or emotions.
In other words they have “tuned out” a portion, if not all of
reality. People who are suffering from
depression are often negative in their feelings of what surrounds them; as such
they too have no interest in anything which gives pleasure or any experience
which can bring them joy.
What
is apathy? Apathy in short is
indifference, a lack of will or motivation to care. Apathy is not depression it is a symptom, the
result of an illness, event, though it is an illness, you can even relate it to
being a symptom to other more physical diseases such as Alzheimer disease. It is said that people who are apathetic do
not take care of themselves as well as other consumers who are not apathetic,
but this is said only in relation to other psychiatric illnesses.
“The world Health Organization defines health
as an optimal state of being that maximizes ones potential, for physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual growth.”
I
have sat for many hours with my mind closed to the outside world in the past,
not only ignoring social activities, yet also closed to the emotions of myself
and finding only darkness inside and people to eschew from my way of life. I had no idea I was apathetic, living without
motivation, lacking any pleasurable existence, because I did not want to find
one. I understood the physical aspect of
my life was suffering in a small sense, yet it is not depression I am suffering
from, though during these times I did not understand what it meant to be
Bi-Polar either, I was living in an up and down kind of world. Many, many people experience apathy at one
time or another, the reality of its disappointment is an uncaring attitude or
slothful emotion, which is a part of life and apathy is a way to hide, with
these negative symptoms such as stress can be dealing with external
problems. Yet, apathy can “enable people
to move forward” and try something new when the rope loosens: you can see what
is new which has become a part of the smile you’ve lost.
Written
by Donald S.
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