Languishing
Depression breeds within the freedom to change and then change again and again, but this freedom never delivers on the promise that this change will produce the good life we seek and the meaning we need. Depression is us facing this horizon and realizing that we don’t have the energy or time to reach it.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
When we aren’t present, it makes us feel vaguely but persistently dissatisfied. This sense of dissatisfaction, of a gap between us and everything and everyone else, is the essential problem of human life. It leads to those moments when we are pierced with a feeling of deep doubt and loneliness.
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
manifest as social withdrawal, an inability to feel pleasure, or a lack of motivation.
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
Opposite of Depression: “When people say ‘What is the opposite of depression?’ It’s not happiness. It’s vitality.” – Lori Gottlieb
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Languish - trạng thái mất sức sống, zombie, chim trong lồng mở cửa nhưng không bay ra, không phát huy được tiềm năng, feeling "blah", ở trong một tình huống khó mà không có sự cải thiện/ tiến triển trong thời gian dài.
If every day is a battle to mitigate emotional damage, their dreams, passions, and desires are not a priority. Survival brings them to lose love for their deep inner self.