Being self-absorbed means a person is hyper-focused on their own feelings and experiences to the extent that it causes them to lack attention to others. Self-absorption can occur for various reasons.

If you’ve ever been called self-absorbed, you can be sure you weren’t getting a compliment. Not only is the root definition of the term negative, but it’s also saturated with unfavorable connotations.

Solutions offered for detrimental self-absorption vary mostly on the basis of what drives such self-defeating rumination. Does it relate mostly to depression? Anxiety, phobia, panic attacks? PTSD?