What is the taste of your life? What is it soaked in? Emotions and feelings, people and events, goals and plans, smells, colors...⠀Life consists of little things, but what if the desire to live recedes, and there is little strength to wake up and move on a new day?⠀Now this is not a rare condition and request in work. And I myself encountered this at a certain period. Lack of desire to live is part of the picture of clinical depression, but not only.⠀Apathy accompanies various physiological and psychological disorders. It is important to pay attention to this condition and understand the reasons.⠀I came to the conclusion that that the main ones can be combined into 4 groups:⠀1. Physiological. For example, some diseases of the thyroid gland are close to depression in their manifestations, many hormonal disorders (especially in women) affect the quality and desire of life, the state of the gastrointestinal tract (no matter how strange it may sound) here, as well as the health of the nervous system and in particular the brain , stress.⠀2. Psychological. Experienced trauma and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Losses and unlived grief, suppression of one’s emotions, growing neurosis...⠀3. Purpose and meaning of life. These concepts deserve a separate point, because when life is filled with meaning and there is something to strive for, you can overcome a lot. I can’t help but remember Viktor Frankl and his “Say Yes to Life” here. Goals are naturally individual: self-development, travel, success and recognition, material wealth...⠀4. And one more point - safety. Lack of a sense of comfort, trust and fear also give rise to apathy. Martin Seligman's experiments (1967) show "learned helplessness." The dogs that were in a closed cage were not subjected to strong electric shocks; after several repetitions, the cage was opened, but the dogs, under the influence of fear, did not run away, but seemed to be “helplessly preparing” for a repetition of this event. A person also, experiencing uncomfortable, threatening events, at some point apathetically “lies down” and prepares for their repetition. Suppression, conflicts, material difficulties, illnesses can be perceived as a threat to safety.⠀If you or people close to you do not feel a thirst for life, pay attention to this, do not ignore it and do not write it off as “it seemed, it will pass, well, everyone is like that” ... because each of us deserves a high quality of life.