a condition and symptom in which there is a loss of interest in things or events that are usually pleasing or exciting; there is a decrease or absence of aspirations for something; indifference to current events and people around arises; emotional depression, lack of motivation to achieve goals. Apathy, as a symptom, may indicate the development of a mental disorder or neurodegenerative disease. It is more common in adolescents and the elderly. Apathy is very similar to depression, sometimes these conditions are difficult to distinguish, although it is apathy that is a symptom of depression. In combination with lack of will, it is an apathetic-abulic syndrome, with adynamia – an apathetic-adynamic syndrome.