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Indifference Is a Mental Health Disorder?

Not many people believe that indifference is a mental health disorder. They consider it to be absolutely normal and something natural, but this is not the case. This is because they do not know much about what indifference actually is. It is a lack of sensitivity and connectivity to the real objects around a person. It is thus an abnormality, as the person does not behave in a normal pattern. This means that what a person responds on a situation is something very different as expected naturally.

If someone is indifferent to the things happening around him, this means that he is not paying any heed to what is happening in reality. Now as he does not notice things around himself, he is always in the risk of getting into danger if asked about the same, in which case he won’t be able to defend himself.It is hard to realize that it is a disorder, as it seems to be a part of ones natural attitude and behavior, but this is not the case.

Symptoms that can help you find out whether a person is suffering from indifference:-

1. If an individual does not react appropriately on someone else’s pain. If he/she does not care about others’ sufferings and pains.

2. If an individual tries to live alone, away from his/her family and friends and shows no care towards people who care for him/her.

3. If an individual stays in his/her own world, with out trying to accept the reality.

A lot of problems are faced by people who suffer from this disorder of indifference.

Some of these have been discussed below:-

1. If you try to live alone, away from your family and friends, you eventually start breaking all the contacts with the real world.You begin to see things for yourself and start to live in your wild conscience, without realizing that it is not a part of the real world. That is you start living in your own world, and have cruel ways of defending it.

2. You tend to become more and crueler to people around you, as your primitive & violent conscience starts dominating the human side of you.

3. You might also get thoughts of committing suicide.

4. You do not understand the meaning of your own actions as the objective side of your brain gets killed by your wild conscience.