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No emotional response

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Introduction

Introduction The types of emotions include low-level emotions and high-level emotions. Low-level emotional response is also called internal-directed emotional response, and advanced emotional response is also called external-directed emotional response. The types of emotions are reduced, not even. For patients with negative symptoms of schizophrenia, it is mainly personality, emotional response, will, behavior and social function disorders, such as lack of emotion, lack of initiative, lack of speech, lack of interest, lazy behavior, social withdrawal.

Cause

Cause

It is the main symptom of advanced or simple type of schizophrenia.

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Lack of emotion, lack of initiative, lack of speech, lack of interest, lazy behavior, social withdrawal.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

No emotional response symptoms need to be distinguished from the following symptoms.

(1) Apathy

Expressed as a decline or loss of emotional activity. The patient loses emotional response to changes in the surrounding environment. When you are serious, you are indifferent to your health. You are lazy, don't dress yourself, don't even have a haircut or wash your face. Little response to hunger and pain. As for the national events, exciting news, difficulties at home, family misfortunes, etc., they are also indifferent. This symptom of apathy is the main symptom of advanced or simple type of schizophrenia, and it exists at the same time as lack of thinking.

(2) Low mood

It can also be called emotional depression, which is an enhancement of negative emotional activity. Sadness and depression often dominate. Nothing can make you happy. The lighter mood is low, only showing lack of interest in things that were previously interested, and unwilling to interact with people, but the change in attitude towards people is not obvious. Severe emotional depression is characterized by depression, sadness, sadness, and reduced action. Emotional depression is seen in depressive psychosis or concurrent depression.

(3) Anxiety

Excessive fear of a state of mind that threatens its own security and other adverse consequences. The patient showed nervous fear and was worried. I think that the condition is serious and cannot be treated, or that the problem is complicated and cannot be solved, so that it is too difficult to sit still and restless. Often accompanied by autonomic dysfunction and suspected concept. More common in anxiety neurosis and menopausal mental disorders. Panic attacks are acute and severe anxiety attacks. At the time of the attack, the patient had a sense of sudden death, loss of control and a sense of catastrophe, accompanied by obvious circulation, respiration, urinary and autonomic nervous system symptoms. The general episode lasts for a short period of time, ranging from a few minutes to ten minutes.

(4) Emotional vulnerability

This is an obstacle to emotional regulation. Under the slight stimulation of the outside world and even without obvious external factors, the emotions are likely to cause fluctuations, and the sadness or excitement of touching is sad. Normal people with weak personality can also show mild emotional vulnerability. However, the often-existing emotionally fragile manifestations are pathological. This symptom is more common in atherosclerotic encephalopathy, traumatic mental disorder, and neurasthenia.