Vision Depletion Demoralized Collapse

Definition

Demoralization syndrome: helplessness, hopelessness, and subjective incompetence with loss of meaning and purpose in serious medical illness and other irreversible adversity. Phenomenologically distinct from depression by preserved present-moment hedonic capacity and intact cognition with a closed-future appraisal — which is what locates it at depletion (0,-): attending remains operative while the meaning domain has drained. Distinct from sibling Meaning Aridity by event/context-anchored drain with hopelessness-helplessness affect (VE propagation primary) rather than gradual felt-content erosion under standing commitments, and by a relational-narrative repair pathway. Distinct from Meaning Burnout (Vision Collapse) by intact attentional engagement and non-occupational etiology.

Glossary source /cascades/Vision Depletion/variants/@label=vision-depletion-demoralized-collapse/reason

Orthography

case

capitalized-always

evidence

ordinary

Usage

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The parent cascade, a reusable global diagnosis, or a variant attached to a different cascade.

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Naming a reviewed presentation that is a child of exactly one parent cascade.

Relationships and lifecycle

Parents

• cascade.vision-depletion