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Hypobulia - what is it?

Hypobulia - literally "immobilization" - is a symptom that may precede diseases of the mental sphere of a person's life. Depression, borderline states, bipolar disorders, delirium, post-drug disorders and many similar diseases can demonstrate hypobulia at the initial stages of their development.

What happens with hypobulia?

With hypobulia, a person loses interest in an active life, motivation for activity, and begins to lead a hypodynamic lifestyle.

This condition is accompanied by other signs of hypobulia:

Lethargy, lethargy, lack of appetite, lack of interest in entertainment, communication, decrease up to a complete lack of interest in sexual relations.
The state of hypobulia grows gradually. At first, a person becomes disorganized, non-executive, lazy, turns into a procrastinator.
Further, a person loses initiative, interests in surrounding events, sluggishness, lethargy, drowsiness, apathy.
Then, against the background of indifference, anxiety conditions begin to prevail, self-esteem, interest in the opposite sex decrease, the desire to be in society disappears, and the desire to be alone increases.
Ultimately, a person spends time in a predominantly recumbent position or wanders mindlessly around the room. Complete inactivity gives rise to a sloppy look and obsessive thoughts about the end of life, about its worthlessness.

How to get rid of hypobulia?

When establishing the diagnosis and differentiating hypobulia with conditions such as seasonal depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, in the absence of diseases that provoke general weakness, it is recommended to start treatment for hypobulia:

with small orders and exactingness of their implementation;
setting small tasks, monitoring their implementation, encouraging the patient to stimulate and revive his interest in any activity in general;
reduced appetite is provoked by tasty dishes and the development of a meal plan for the patient;
communication with close relatives on topics of interest to the patient will help him return to society;
compulsory physical education, fitness will bring a wave of energy, interest in one's own appearance into the patient's life;
recommend taking medications that increase the heartbeat, raise the general tone of the body.