What do you call a person who doesn't care about anything? Can an indifferent person be confident?

Meaning

In this case, we do not take the content of the word, which everyone can vary according to their taste and preference, but rely solely on the dictionary. The latter gives us four meanings of the adjective “indifferent”, which is organically connected with the adverb that has fallen into the zone of attention.

1. A person who does not exude interest in anyone or anything. For example, there are people who love ballet and football. And some people love both. But more often, some people love Baryshnikov, while others love Messi. Depending on what the audience watches more willingly, they are indifferent to either football or ballet matters. In other words, football spectators don’t care what happens in ballet, and vice versa.
2. Characteristics of a person who expresses a certain attitude towards reality. He is indifferent to almost everything; this attitude will surprise few people today. For example, the hero of Camus’s novel “The Stranger” Meursault is a person indifferent to the world.
3. This is what they say about a person who is indifferent to everyone. I remember the joke about Elusive Joe.
4. When two objects are compared and one is no different from the other, it is said to be indifferent. For example, two socks in one package. In other words, indistinguishable against the general background.

This is the full meaning of the word “indifferent.”

How to bring back the taste for life

How to get out of an apathetic state and begin to feel the joy of life again, and not give up in the face of difficulties? If indifference is caused by overwork, the best cure is rest. The nicer and brighter it is, the better. This method does not help in all cases.

You can cope with indifference and awaken interest in something with the help of such a psychological technique as convincing yourself of the opposite. As soon as you decide to give up everything and not waste time, the principle of the opposite will work and the desire to act will appear, you will feel sorry for the wasted effort.

If apathy is strong and there is simply no strength for psychological experiments, you can get out of the situation by forcing yourself to do important and urgent things. Even by participating in the slightest degree in the work process, a person becomes involved, begins to become interested, and indifference goes away.

Synonyms

We don’t think that by considering the replacements, the reader will discover something new for himself, although anything is possible. So, the synonyms are as follows:

• Doesn't matter.
• Indifferent.
• Apathetic.
• Indifferent.
• Indifferent.
• Uninterested.
• Passively.
• Inert.

To one degree or another, these words replace the adverb “indifferent,” this is obvious. One could also add “boredom” here. But boredom is, in the words of I. Brodsky, an “active attitude” to existence, and disinterest presupposes passivity. Therefore, we did not include spiritual longing here, but the reader can use this kind of replacement if he needs it.

How indifference manifests itself in various areas of life

The following types of indifference are distinguished:

• in relation to a partner;
• in relation to other people;
• in relation to work;
• in relation to children;
• in relation to public life.

Indifference is one of the problems in family life: feelings have cooled down, a habit remains, spouses move away from each other, living together by inertia. Feeling the indifference of a loved one is painful and offensive. But if there are no mutual feelings left, the best solution is separation.

Fatigue, eternal haste, prolonged stress lead to an indifferent attitude towards others, when you don’t feel sorry for an old man begging for alms or a person who has lost consciousness on the street. An indifferent person will pass by. Such people also experience difficulties in everyday communication with colleagues and relatives. They don't have close friends. Indifference, like an invisible dome, separates them from the world.

Loss of interest in work, reluctance to improve in the profession, to fulfill one’s duties are manifestations of indifference. What does such an attitude give a person in the end? Lack of career prospects, tense relationships with superiors. Not every employer is ready to tolerate an employee who lacks initiative and cannot cope with the task.

Parental indifference cripples the psyche of children. Without care and attention, a child becomes aggressive and lags behind in mental and mental development. Children, faced with such an attitude, adopt it, growing up no less indifferent than their parents.

A person who is indifferent to public life, politics, and the environment shifts his civic responsibility onto the shoulders of other people. He does not understand that such indifference worsens the quality of his life. Without declaring your rights, it is impossible to achieve improvements; allowing nature to be destroyed will not solve environmental problems.

The flip side of success

Western civilization has long been about efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, when a person is in a corporation in the broad sense of the word, he is indifferent to many things. This is fine. When deadlines are constantly pressing, there is a lot of work. The human psyche sweeps away the unnecessary and focuses on the main thing. I don’t even have the strength to sympathize with my parents. In the 19th century, the hero of our time was Pechorin, and in the 21st century it was Meursault. Is there a way out? Certainly! Understand the relativity of corporate values. And most importantly, understand that money is not everything.

Requests for help Write your story Hello. I’m 21 years old and I’m a guy. I don’t even know where to start... and whether they will understand me.. My life. I divide it into 2 parts. Part 1 is what I was like before when I was at school and what motivated me and what captivated me. Then I was an ordinary redneck, trying to keep up with my classmates, and trying to get attention from them and me in general then nothing interested me. Well, just like ordinary life and I hated it. When I entered college, I developed new preferences and aspirations. I became very interested in rock music, which included many genres. And I decided that I wanted to make a musical career. I started writing songs with guitar and poetry, and most recently I made several “full-fledged” songs alone. As I already said, I distinguished between 2 times: who I was before, and who I have become now. And I really liked it. I liked being different from myself then. I loved music, made it one of the ideals of my life, I started reading books and looked at the world in its own way, in a philosophical way. I made creative, truly smart friends who understood me perfectly and I understood them too. The key feature I considered was my depression, in which I found myself, in which I experienced pleasure and pleasantness. I tried to explain everything from a psychological point of view and to people I looked at it as a peculiarity. When I was just sitting on a bench somewhere in the park and saw an old man passing by, I began to think about his life, about what he had experienced over the years, etc. I had a fantasy, I dreamed very often. I loved looking at the sunset and the bluish distance and thinking about what wonderful people there are there, that maybe my soulmate is there too. This gave birth to lines in my head, I already knew what melody would be the basis of the song. I had never before I was afraid of death, I was indifferent to it. I thought that death does not bring anything bad in itself. On the contrary, it is a continuation of life and everything like that. But thoughts of suicide did not come to me, almost did not come. I met a girl on one site. I liked her more and more every day. Then I began to go to “sleep” more often, so that she wouldn’t get bored. She is truly wonderful, but too passive in communication. When I told her about something special, not everyday, she was more often silent than answering anything. When I asked why, she said that she didn’t know what to answer, and she just liked to hear about it. Well, of course, I don’t always “ brought up such topics and tried to talk to her more about everyday things than about spiritual things. We decided to try to be together, that is, next year I promised to come to her city and spend some time together. She talked about her future plans to move to St. Petersburg and study there, and we decided that in four years we would move there together. But as time went on, I often began to feel a chill in the dialogues and topics had to be sucked out of thin air. But still, we communicated EVERY day. Be it Skype or VK. She said that she was just tired and she was interested in me. (I forgot to mention that she was 16 years old). I FELL IN LOVE. Then he began to doubt. And I decided to talk to her about it. She asked if I could wait that long? I said yes. She suddenly answered, I don’t know. Something turned over in me and I told her goodbye. I sat there for 2-3 minutes as if scalded. Then I started calling her and asking her to come back. She became a little stubborn and agreed. The whole next day I did almost nothing I didn’t eat and smoked a lot, I could barely wait for the hour when she came in. She came in and talked again. She said that suddenly I’ll find someone for myself and who knows what could happen. But she didn’t say “NO,” which means everything is fine normal, I then went out and calmed down, and when I went to bed, I felt a strong heartbeat and fear. I didn’t understand anything and was only afraid that nothing would work out. Time passed, the PA began to pass, (when I talked to her in the evenings, I felt calm) Continued compose music, draw, walk, and everything is fine. Then jealousy set in. She once said that she met her ex in a cafe. Well, she just met and that’s it, she said that they wouldn’t have anything. Then during the conversation she said that boys were being added to her friends, that someone was writing to her, etc. I was overcome by terrible jealousy. I thought only about her all the time, and I had a fear of being abandoned due to lack of interest. This went on for some time. Then everything seemed to work out. She recently told me that she gets angry when someone leaves me drawings on the wall from the women’s quarters. And sometimes, as if to say, “Evilly” she joked, like you’re probably corresponding with this or that one... I liked that she was jealous of me too and I calmed down. By the way, I said that I would come to her this summer. She was delighted. But then, one fine day I woke up in a great mood and suddenly something happened to me. It was as if everything suddenly became indifferent and a new anxiety appeared, from nowhere. My friend and I are standing at a bus stop, and it seems to me that this place is somehow different, even though I’ve left here many times. When I came home I felt panic, my parents bought a big TV, but I didn’t care at all. I even faintly realized what was happening... But closer to night I drank motherwort, calmed down and seemed to be fine. The next morning I woke up again with anxiety, I didn’t understand where it came from, then I realized that I didn’t feel anything at all. Everything is somehow lifeless and dry... And so for periods - It seems that for five minutes everything is normal and there is a future, then complete hopelessness “covers”... I began to be afraid that this state would never go away and I would never feel anything again, but it was important to me to feel something... Then I passed the last exam with a 4 and I felt a little happy that I finished the 4th year without C grades. I fell asleep normally. The next morning (2 days ago) I woke up again with some kind of heaviness. My parents suggested going to the village and I agreed. And these two days are continuously covering me, I have already started reading about schizophrenia and derealization and I am afraid that everything... There is no future, I will no longer be able to return to normal life, I will no longer see my muse, which is waiting for me to come to her... Fear has already been born that I can’t make her happy, I can’t be myself, that I’ll ruin her life and cause pain. But I feel that I need her... Like indifference and apathy to everything... Like what I did, what I lived with just recently is all nonsense... That's all... Lord, it's terribly difficult for me, and I absolutely don't know what to do... How to get out of this swamp?(((How to get back everything that was? Values, sensitivity... Support the site:

Sergey, age: 21 / 05/03/2013

Responses:

Sergey, you definitely need to consult a doctor. It’s better with a psychiatrist, but you can also with a psychotherapist, and finally with a neurologist. I'm not a doctor, but I had similar symptoms. This is an anxiety disorder. It can be either an isolated disease or one of the symptoms of the onset of psychosis. diseases. Sergey, don’t beat yourself up in advance. Now there are medications that neutralize these manifestations and allow people to live normally. So you will have everything!

Irina, age: 40 / 05/04/2013

Seryozha, hello! Reading your lines, I felt something related... I am also a creative person, I can write short stories, essays and poems from the heart. Most of all I love sunsets and sunrises - as the borders of two worlds, death and life, oblivion and vanity, happiness and sorrow... Watching the daily death of the sun, I feel that my daily worries are dying and the road of love, dreams, self-knowledge and self-development is being born... The Road night long. And I also want to believe that at the same moment my soulmate is looking at the sunset, walking his own path of inspiration and expectation, and someday these roads will intersect, they will definitely intersect... You just need to believe! I understand you, I understand that inspiration is the sun of life, that without it it is scary, painful, empty, as if winter has come and the sun has left you, does not warm you with its rays... But this is only a passing cycle, necessary and useful for development, a crisis - This is a step higher, forward. I know the absence of any feelings. And it may or may not last, but it certainly won’t last forever. It comes from satiety with them and is a natural process. You just need to get through this period, maybe it’s the first, but it’s definitely not the last. And in between there will be powerful waves of inspiration, like gusts of a storm, and a quiet, calm flow of emotions that will not cause a storm of laughter or despair - everything will be. And there are still many hopes, disappointments, many joys and sorrows, but time will choose - who is a friend, who is an enemy, who is just for the sake of it, who is worthy of love and devotion, who is not. The main thing is to follow your own path of daytime worries, nighttime inspirations, the absence of any emotions, all these are just periods! Go for it!

Sun, age: 20 / 05/04/2013

Just come back to yourself, take up music and poetry again. Your problem is that you are too fixated on this girl. Remember - “The less we love a woman, the more she likes us.” At the same time, check whether you are dear to her. If not, then don’t worry, such an interesting guy won’t stay alone for long)

From Flame and Light, age: 23 / 05/04/2013

With this it is better to see a psychotherapist. But, on the other hand, the less concerned about this problem, the better, since it in itself most resembles a phantom one, like ordinary PA (but I’m not a doctor, just someone who’s read a lot of stuff, like you). The more you are afraid, the closer and more real the object of fear seems. If you are terrified of going crazy, it will seem like you are going crazy. Derealization is also a possible symptom of anxiety, and not necessarily schiz. And indifference and hopelessness are a classic defensive reaction to anxiety. Like, I’m not afraid of anything, I don’t care, everything will be bad anyway, and I can somehow put it on that. Just try not to overthink things, “if they beat you, you will cry” (as O. Bender said), but it’s too early. And judging by the content of the text and simply its length, you have not lost interest in anything, perhaps this is a kind of illusion from fear.

a, age: 26 / 05/04/2013

Sergey, don’t be angry and don’t be afraid, but since this is interfering with your life, then go to the doctor. PA, depression, fears - all this can be corrected. Any problem is better treated at the beginning, when it is not neglected. The reasons may be psychosomatic, and then philosophizing on this topic is dangerous: you need to correct the balance in the body, and not develop theories about your exclusivity, difficult relationships with your beloved, etc. Each person is exceptional and different from others, why make a fetish out of this?! Everyone has a soul and spirit, there is spirituality, someone just likes to “talk about it”, and someone’s spiritual life is reliably hidden from everyone. There is no need to read about mental illnesses, as well as about somatic ones - it is absolutely clear that if you find everything you can, you will panic even more and thereby worsen your condition. No matter how unusual a person you are, the laws of physiology and psyche apply to everyone, doctors study them for seven to ten years just to start practicing... so our awareness will never be even close to their knowledge.

Elena Ordinary, age: 37 / 05/04/2013

Are you going to save yourself? This life is certainly interesting, but the main thing is salvation. Thoughts about the spiritual do not lead to the spiritual. Decline and degradation occurs - if without God. Think about it: what is your relationship with God? How are you connected to Him? Of course, you, like many others, have been given life, but not everyone finds blissful eternity. In general, spiritual education is necessary, especially since there are inclinations to think about the spiritual - just so as not to go into your own fantasy and become the founder of a “new religion”. The fact is that God has already revealed Himself - in Orthodoxy. This is ALL about it. Other religions arose as a result of the human factor, when a person simply decided to be “someone especially significant.” And he became; I didn’t reach God. A person does not want to feel the love of God, he moves away from Him with his bad habits, defilements of soul and body. At the same time, his soul is yearning for something and he comes up with many interests for himself... But the result is melancholy and a feeling of hopelessness. After all, success can never bind a person to life. Need over- Goal. We need to understand why we live here and satisfy this meaning of our being. And we are not here to have a good time - not for a fun holiday, but we are here to think seriously about life. Fortunately, the Lord has already revealed himself, and in Orthodoxy, those who are serious there: find happiness, salvation and what their soul was looking for. Salvation, of course, is a whole journey, but this is what life is given for. Along the way, you may have to find a job, master a profession, and start a family. Then pass on what is valuable in yourself: to children. Help people. Forgive offenses. Live and pray to God. Receive from Him the verbs of Truth. Always be with Him and feel the Meaning with every cell of your soul. That’s why I asked you a question, dear: “Are you going to be saved?” If yes, here are links to the sites: https://verapravoslavnaya.ru https://tvspas.ru https://pravfilms.ru/ All the best!

Taya, age: 23 / 05/04/2013

Sergey, sorry, but I think you’re just worried. Due to the fact that everything may turn out badly, she will not love you, etc.. pah-pah-pah, of course. It just seemed so from what you wrote... these kind of incomprehensible and difficult to describe attacks of moods that you have already experienced and don’t want anymore. If so, relax, it's not schizophrenia, just don't worry. Well, if it’s not so, then it’s also unlikely to be schizophrenia, it’s not like that) Be confident in yourself!

Yama, age: 20 / 05/06/2013

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