What’s the difference in your opinion?
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I think avolition can be mistaken for laziness.
The lack of motivation from avolition is not the same as those who experience plain laziness. A lot of life problems get worst for me due to avolition. Health, legal and financial problems don’t even motivate me.
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Laziness is kind of a choice. You can choose to do something or you can be lazy and choose not to do something. You might say laziness is a character defect while avolition is a condition which you don’t have full control over and does not reflect on your character.
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I agree with @77nick77 Avolition can’t help it much and wishes it could., Laziness can help it and would rather not.
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laziness is something you would enjoy and have control over while avolition is like a kind of inertia its like feeling like you are broken and everything is a drag
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I get avolition while I’m pacing back and forth. If it was laziness, surely I would be able to rest?
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Laziness is when you can do something but choose not too. Avolition is where you want to be more active but simply can’t.
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Imagine you can collect 900 dollars that was taken and all you need to do is make this phone call to a card company and wait on the line. Otherwise you wont get it back.
You have clothes that are clean but they just stay in the basket or weeks.
You sit and just look at the wall or outside instead of doing something productive.
Cant even turn on the tv to watch something.
Thats a bit of avolition in my opinion
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Avolition can be directionless. It by definition is that you desire goal directed activity but cannot get yourself to do it.
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I think avolition might be more difficult to do things.
Laziness, it is also difficult, but with the right support and reasoning, I think it is easier to do things.
I think avolition, you are wanting to do things a lot, but you physically can’t very easily at all.
I might be wrong, this is my guess
For me it feels like its a brick wall between wanting and doing
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What do you mean?
@Zoe
Like say you want to do the dishes. So you drink a coffee. But nope you sit on the couch and you think ok in 10 mins ill get it done. 30 mins go by 1 hr goes by. Ok ill have another coffee and then do it. 2 more hour goes by.
Now exhausted from thinking about doing it you take a nap. Nap for 3 hours, sit on the couch some more frustrated, maybe eat something, even more dishes now. Back to sleep.
Repeat.
Wanted to do the dishes but could not get it even started.
If it was lazyness id enjoy some games or something fun but i instead just exist.
Now i turn on tv when its not happening. So thats a move up lol
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Oh okay. Yea so with avolition, there’s no motivation to do anything. But with lazyness, at least one can still do other things such as computer games.
Avolition is so sad.
I hope it never happens to me again. As bad as it did in the past.
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Now I’m worried - I can’t clean the house but I can read a children’s book. Am I lazy? 
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Lol… I think it is different meaning to different people.
I remember wen I had avolition, I managed to go on bus rides for the akathisia but otherwise I was in bed
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Lol we also procrastinate as people. So its not just black or white 
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Avolition sounds a lot better. It’s always been a big problem for me.
The thing I hate about avolition the most is feeling like I am completely empty and that my soul, life has been sucked out of me, kind of like what the dementors do in Harry Potter.
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