What is the term for example when a person cannot see they are becoming mentally ill?

Dissonance? Although cognitive dissonance isn’t that you can’t tell you’re becoming mentally ill. Cognitive dissonance is holding two or more beliefs that contradict each other. Well more to the point it’s a state of distress that stems from this.

Sadly no, I’ve made that distinction automatic. Pretty awesome though don’t you think? For all our little toys and rational thought people are inconsistent. LOL Oops I don’t think lol is allowed. Bye bye for now, maybe we’ll meet in a better place, eh?

Unaware, imperceptive, unconscious, unmindful, oblivious, incognizant, unsuspecting, blind; in the dark, nescient.

Denial

Perhaps “incumbent” is the word you seek.

OP has left the building.

He is aptly named.

Normality. Join the ranks of every person on the planet. Welcome to the club!

People usually can’t see that they are becoming mentally ill because they need mental faculties to do that, and it is defective. Kind of like using a defective voltmeter to measure its battery to see if the battery is low.

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Slightly off topic but I always heard that people with mental problems can’t see that they have them.

However I had an ex who was later diagnosed as bipolar and or schizophrenic and he always questioned his sanity. But when it came to getting help he would hotly deny he had a problem. I think fear was possibly a motivator in this. But on the other hand I do think he was genuinely confused about his sanity though his instincts seemed to tell him something was inherently wrong.

Then there are Alzheimer people who are aware that things of their loss of mental capacity. The time frame is unique to the individual and how self aware and honest they were as well as how quickly the disease progressed.

So would denial of say depression fall under the same category? Technically anyone with any degree of denial in anything self referential would seemingly qualify. Thus diminishing the significance of such a problem. Or am I wrong?