Mental anesthesia ( lat.anesthesia dolorosa psychica - painful mental anesthesia ); synonyms: depressive depersonalization , “ feeling of insensibility ”, or painful insensibility - experiencing incomplete emotional response , disappearance of kindred feelings, lack of empathy and lack of emotional response to the environment, loss of emotional attitude to work, intellectual activity, aesthetic side of the perceived, ethical aspects of oneself and others behavior. Endogenous depression is characterized by mental anesthesia, which is characterized by a wide range of disorders - from experiences of emotional impairment of perception and loss of feelings to the phenomena of bodily anesthesia, when there is no emotional accompaniment of a number of sensations at the same time. This the patient perceives as a loss of sensation of the body or its individual parts. The phenomena of mental anesthesia for depression can relate to different types of sensations - visual, auditory, tactile, proprioceptive , visceral.
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