![]() ![]() ![]() "To escape this blahness," Adams says, "we need to create new psychic fuel and do what we can within the constraints we live under." To generate psychic nourishment, she suggests planning new and fun activities at home and doing outdoor things. So, we lose our spunk and feel blah." She has noticed many of her patients having less ability to concentrate and be creative and productive during the pandemic. ![]() "Our input of psychological fuel is nil when our output is high. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. Just as an engine needs gasoline to run, people need psychological fuel to operate at fulfilling and optimum levels." Psychological fuel comes from both new experiences, such as novel or re-visited experiences, and rest, doing nothing." Throughout the pandemic, we have gotten little of either. Grant describes languishing as a sense of stagnation and emptiness. "During a pandemic when we are sequestered, we become low on psychic fuel. Grant cites research showing that people who were languishing over. A recent New York Times article by Adam Grant has created greater awareness around the concept, particularly in connection to the impact of the pandemic. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. The mental and physical effects of COVID-19 have left a vast swath of the population in a state of languishing, experts say. Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It turns out there’s a name for that: languishing. We just felt somewhat joyless and aimless. Adams, MD, draws the analogy of psychological functioning to how an engine operates. It wasn’t depression we didn’t feel hopeless. So, what happens when society and life essentially are put on pause? When we are unable to engage in many of our daily activities? When contact with friends, family, and colleagues is limited to a computer screen? When our psychosocial functioning is forcibly interrupted? ![]()
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