Editing Avolition (section)

==Social and clinical implications==
Implications from avolition often result in social deficits. Not being able to initiate and perform purposeful activities can have many implications for a person with avolition. By disrupting interactions with both familiar and unfamiliar people, it jeopardizes the patient's social relations. When part of a severe [[mental illness]], avolition has been reported, in first person accounts, to lead to physical and mental inability to both initiate and maintain relationships, as well as work, eat, drink or even sleep.<ref name= "First Person Accounts">{{cite book | vauthors = Morrison B | veditors = LeCroy CW, Holschuh J | year = 2012 | chapter = Suicide: Disease, Loneliness, Social Isolation, Suicide, Negative Thoughts ... | title = First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery | pages = 53–57 | location = Hoboken, New Jersey | publisher = John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | isbn = 978-0-470-44452-8}}</ref>

Clinically, it may be difficult to engage an individual experiencing avolition in active participation of [[psychotherapy]]. Patients are also faced with the stresses of coping with and accepting a mental illness and the stigma that often accompanies such a diagnosis and its symptoms. Regarding schizophrenia, the [[American Psychiatric Association]] reported in 2013 that there currently are "no treatments with proven efficacy for primary negative symptoms"<ref name="Negative Symptoms">{{cite book | vauthors = Kring A, Smith D | year = 2013 | chapter = The Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia | title = Psychopathology: From Science to Clinical Practice | pages = 370–388 | veditors = Castonguay L, Oltmanns T | location = New York, NY | publisher = Guildford Publications | isbn = 978-1-4625-2881-3}}</ref> (such as avolition). Together with schizophrenia's chronic nature, such facts added to the outlook of never getting well, might further implicate feelings of hopelessness and similar in patients as well as their friends and family.