ABSENT-MINDEDNESS

Absent-mindedness is where a person shows inattentive or forgetful behavior. It can have three different causes:

• a low level of attention ("blanking" or "zoning out")
• intense attention to a single object of focus (hyperfocus) that makes a person oblivious to events around them;
• unwarranted distraction of attention from the object of focus by irrelevant thoughts or environmental events.

Absent-mindedness is a mental condition in which the subject experiences low levels of attention and frequent distraction.

CAUSES OF ABSENT-MINDEDNESS

Absent-mindedness is not a diagnosed condition but rather a state people experience in their daily lives from a variety of different causes including boredom, sleepiness, or focus on internal thoughts instead of external surroundings.

SYMPTOMS OF ABSENT-MINDEDNESS

When experiencing absent-mindedness, people tend to show signs of memory lapse and weak recollection of recently occurring events. This can usually be a result of a variety of other conditions often diagnosed by clinicians such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and depression. In addition to absent-mindedness leading to an array of consequences affecting daily life, it can have more severe, long-term problems.

HOMOEOPATHIC APPROACH OF ABSENT-MINDEDNESS

Few homoeopathic medicine can be thought of in the treatment of absent- mindedness are:

Lachesis, Natrum mur., pulsatilla, lac can., veratrum alb., platina, etc.