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

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## 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.