Mental illness: imbecility

Imbecility - average degree of dementia. Persons with an imbecility do not give in to training in the school. Their speech is tongue-tied, terse. A set of words is limited (200-300 words). However, such patients acquire the necessary skills of self-service. 


They are usually tidy, independently eat, can perform a simple housework (cleaning, laundry, washing dishes), well oriented in the usual everyday issues. Some of them can acquire basic knowledge (learn them usually at home or in special groups): to spell, read items and money.

Thinking and emotions are inert, tugopodvijni. On the situation change such patients give a negative reaction. The tendency to blind imitation and heightened suggestibility can become a cause of asocial behavior. They cannot exist independently, therefore, in need of constant supervision and guardianship.