anosognosia

First sentence is absurd, then the rest of the excerpt is very typical anosognosia.

Also some of the mentally ill have anosognosia, and so don't even realize that they have a problem.

It made me think of anosognosia -- a condition in which a person with a disability is cognitively unaware of having it (due to an underlying physical condition).

Depending who you believe, approximately half of them are unable to see they are ill (re: anosognosia).

Further, some people suffering in this way have anosognosia, which means not only are they delusion, but their mind is also incapable of perceiving its own malfunction.

Many people with schizophrenia stop taking meds because they do not think they are sick - anosognosia.

Approximately half of the people with schizophrenia don’t believe they are ill, which is why they refuse treatment (see: anosognosia).

Even years of counseling/therapy could miss anosognosia when there is an expectation the patient wants a specific problem was addressed.

For those reading who have less experience, they sometimes call that anosognosia or lack of awareness.

This can be especially tragic because schizophrenic patients can have anosognosia, which makes them unaware that they have a mental illness.

It is the same way convincing a schizophrenic person with anosognosia to take antipsychotic medication.

Something like 50% of cases of schizophrenia have some degree of anosognosia as well.

The clinical term for this is "anosognosia", which describes a specific physical, neurological inability to be aware of their illness.

Also, independent of location, many people with mental illness have a corresponding condition called Anosognosia, which is basically a lack of insight into your own condition.