Avolition

Listlessness ( watered down listlessness, lack of motivation or lack of drive ) denotes the state of a man, which is interpreted by himself or his environment as a psycho-physical weakness. The person is hard to motivate and shows enthusiasm for anything.

Listlessness can have various causes, such as depression, but insufficient as the sole symptom, schizophrenia, underactive thyroid, iodine deficiency and vitamin B deficiency.

Listlessness has - depending on disease - several different ICD-10 codes, such as:

Opposite of listlessness is the drive income, which often occurs with the clinical picture of mania.

A literary classic is this, " Oblomov " by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, in which the hero of the book can be motivated on pages 800 to almost nothing and remains largely unmotivated.

• Psycho- pathological symptom