What is emotional stupidity?
This syndrome, like "dull emotional", in psychiatry is also called emotional impoverishment. For such a state is characterized by a decrease in emotionality, loss of ability to experience and feelings. A person preserves the simplest reactions and manifests feelings that are aimed at satisfying the basic instincts, and serious emotional experiences are lost.
Reasons for the emergence of emotional dullness
How does emotional stupidity appear? Symptoms: excessive coldness to the surrounding people, lack of empathy and sympathy for friends and close people. In some situations, the patient feels full of emptiness, indifference.
The main reason for this phenomenon in relation to other people, the doctors consider significant disorders of the psyche, which are caused by organic or physiological pathologies of the cerebral cortex. There is such a violation of the psyche at the initial stage of schizophrenia. The main problem is that there is a threat of complete indifference and indifference, loss of emotional connection with the world around us.
Often, emotional dullness leads to dullness in the sphere of feelings and emotional experiences. As indifference and coldness increase, the patient develops a vulnerability syndrome, called in psychiatry "the phenomenon of glass and wood."People of the schizoid type have underdeveloped mental protection, they are vulnerable, and emotional coldness is a protective reaction. Also, emotional dullness may appear due to depression and brain damage.
Treatment options
The treatment option depends on the reasons that led to the onset of the disease. If emotional dullness is detected at an early age, a child psychiatrist can help. Thanks to modern methods, combining pedagogy and medicine, it is possible to stabilize the child's condition.
How do adults solve such a problem as apathy, emotional dullness? To begin with, the brain is operationally tested, the state of the central nervous system is analyzed, various tests and behavioral instincts are conducted. Based on the results obtained, the duration and form of treatment is determined.
Symptoms of emotional dullness
Let's take a look at such a disease as emotional dullness. Symptoms of this disease are well studied by psychiatrists.
Pathological affect is the emotional reaction of rage or anger that arises as a response to an irritant. It flows quickly enough against a background of confusion of consciousness, and the patient practically does not remember the experienced irritation. This condition occurs in the case of organic brain lesions, various types of mental suffering.
Euphoria is an inadequate irritant joyful mood. The person is happy with everything, does not notice real problems. He sees the surrounding reality through rose-colored glasses, even perceives tragic events on the positive. Excessive optimism does not allow the patient to objectively assess the state of his health. Euphoria can manifest at the terminal stage of a part of malignant tumors. This phenomenon is typical for somatic and psychiatric diseases.
Moria represents an increased unmotivated mood with trite, flat jokes. Such patients behave too excited, this is typical for patients who have a lesion of the frontal lobes.
Dysthymia is a pathologically oppressive mood that appears absolutely for no reason. The patient perceives the surrounding reality is negative, pessimistic. Dysthymia often leads to suicide attempts.
Conclusion
A person lives with the thought of an impending catastrophe, trouble, this prevents him from living fully. For example, the symptom of this disease is increased anxiety. Emotional dullness is accompanied by a slow depletion of emotional reactions. The patient's moral, ethical, aesthetic, and intellectual feelings disappear. There is complete indifference to everything that surrounds the sick person, there are constant depressions. Emotional stupidity is typical for sick people who need the help of professionals.