Such a syndrome as “emotional dullness” is also called emotional impoverishment in psychiatry. Such a state is characterized by a decrease in emotionality, a loss of the ability to experience and feel. A person retains the simplest reactions and shows feelings that are aimed at satisfying basic instincts, while serious emotional experiences are lost.
Causes of emotional dullness
How does emotional dullness manifest itself? Symptoms: excessive coldness to other people, lack of empathy and sympathy for friends and loved ones. In some situations, the patient feels completely empty, indifferent.
The main reason for this phenomenon in relation to other people, doctors consider significant mental disorders that are caused by organic or physiological pathologies of the cerebral cortex. Such a mental disorder occurs 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 outside world.
Emotional dullness often leads to dullness in the sphere of feelings and emotional experiences. Byas indifference and coldness grow, the patient develops a syndrome of vulnerability, referred to in psychiatry as the "phenomenon of glass and wood." People of the schizoid type have an underdeveloped mental defense, they are vulnerable, and emotional coldness is a protective reaction. Also, emotional dullness can appear due to depression and brain damage.
Treatments
The treatment option depends on the causes that led to the appearance of the disease. If emotional dullness is detected at an early age, a child psychiatrist can help. Thanks to modern methods that combine pedagogy and medicine, it is possible to stabilize the child's condition.
How do adults deal with such a problem as apathy, emotional dullness? To begin with, a study of the working capacity of the brain is carried out, the state of the central nervous system is analyzed, various tests and analysis of behavioral instincts are carried out. Based on the results obtained, the duration and form of treatment is determined.
Signs of emotional dullness
Let's take a closer look at such a disease as emotional dullness. The symptoms of this disease are well studied by psychiatrists.
Pathological affect is an emotional reaction of rage or anger that occurs as a response to a stimulus. It proceeds quite quickly against the background of clouding of consciousness, and the patient practically does not remember the irritation experienced. This condition occurs in case of organic lesions.brain, various types of mental suffering.
Euphoria is a joyful mood inappropriate to the stimulus. The person is happy with everything, does not notice real problems. He sees the surrounding reality through rose-colored glasses, even perceives tragic events in a positive way. Excessive optimism does not allow the patient to objectively assess the state of his he alth. Euphoria can manifest itself at the terminal stage of some malignant tumors. This phenomenon is typical for somatic and psychiatric diseases.
Moriya is an elevated unmotivated mood with vulgar, flat jokes. Such patients behave too agitated, this is typical for patients with lesions of the frontal lobes.
Dysthymia is a pathologically depressed mood that appears for absolutely no reason. The patient perceives the surrounding reality negatively, pessimistically. Dysthymia often leads to suicide attempts.
Conclusion
A person lives with the thought of an impending disaster, trouble, this prevents him from living a full life. For example, a symptom of this disease is increased anxiety. Emotional dullness is accompanied by a slow impoverishment of emotional reactions. The patient's moral, ethical, aesthetic, intellectual feelings disappear. There is complete indifference to everything that surrounds a sick person, constant depression occurs. Emotional dullness is typical for sick people who need the help of professionals.
