![]() ![]() People who are languishing have feelings of “emptiness and stagnation.” They are feeling neither good nor sad. He also gave a name to a relatively common emotional state. By putting names to this continuum of mental health and proposing ways to measure a person’s sense of wellbeing, he created useful a path for future study. His flourishing-to-languishing scale offered an alternative to the default definition of good mental health as not having a diagnosed mental illness. (He used flourishing to describe the upper range.) His model was part of a broader effort to focus research and resources on population mental health-to treat mental health as a public health issue. In a 2002 journal article, sociologist Corey Keyes used the term languishing to describe a state of wellbeing in the lower range of the mental health scale. ![]() And there are steps you can take to boost your sense of wellbeing and recover your ability to focus. They’re not their sharp, alert, sociable former selves, though they’re still able to muddle through work and handle the most important daily tasks.ĭoes this sound like you? If so, putting a name to your feelings might help. Their days go by without rousing much interest or enthusiasm. They aren’t feeling sad and hopeless, but they aren’t happy either. Languishing? Brain fog? Pandemic stress and isolation could be getting you down.Īfter a year of hypervigilance, isolation, stress, and loss, many people have emotions and feelings they have trouble naming.
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