There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing

Metadata

• Author: [[Adam Grant]]
• Full Title: There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing
• Category: #articles
• URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html

Highlights

• Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. And it might be the dominant emotion of 2021.
• Languishing dulls your motivation, disrupts your ability to focus, and triples the odds that you’ll cut back on work. It appears to be more common than major depression — and in some ways it may be a bigger risk factor for mental illness.
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• Part of the danger is that when you’re languishing, you might not notice the dulling of delight or the dwindling of drive. You don’t catch yourself slipping slowly into solitude; you’re indifferent to your indifference. When you can’t see your own suffering, you don’t seek help or even do much to help yourself.