Anosognosia - Lack of Self Awareness

 Anosognosia is variously understood. I have some defect, illness, ailment, disease or un-health condition. Reports are obtained. I am not in a position to rationally and logically accept the medical diagnosis as to its seriousness is anosognosia.

I know of a recent case of a highly educated couple from pharma manufacturing industry who tested COVID 19 positive. Test results showed so, as also the symptoms they themselves suffered. However, they kept telling others that they were fine and all was going on well till they suffered acute chest congestion and became hospitalised to save their lives.

Another case of a person who suffered a stroke. The person was drowsy, missing steps, had a slur in speech, lost hold of things as yet refused to accept that he was having a serious paralytic condition and needed to be rushed to hospital.

It is also prevalent in mental health areas like with those who are obsessive compulsive, compliant, rebellious, accident proneness, counter-phobic, aggressive, addiction and addiction proneness, given to lie / steal, persecuting, rescuing, victimisation prone, suffering from a host of thinking disorders (for ten types of thinking disorders read at Reflections of Ajit Karve ) anxieties, phobias, depression proneness and many others.