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RELATED: How to Help Young Adults Struggling with Depression During the Coronavirus Pandemic "Instead of saying 'Great!' or 'Fine,' imagine if we answered, 'Honestly, I'm languishing,' " he advised. Grant offers several suggestions for getting out of the languishing rut. RELATED VIDEO: Friends Reunite After Separation Due To The COVID-19 Pandemic "In short," he added, "languishers are neither mentally ill nor mentally healthy." Instead, they're stuck in a purgatory between the two, and at risk of moving towards mentally ill without further intervention. In another paper, from 2003, Keyes said that languishing is "more prevalent than major depressive disorder," and those suffering from it are "devoid of positive emotion toward life, and is not functioning well either psychologically or socially, and has not been depressed during the past year." RELATED: How to Manage Anxiety and Loneliness During the Coronavirus Pandemic Keyes advocated in a 2010 study for mental health prevention "through risk reduction," to help "those vulnerable to mental illness."
Keyes researched the feeling and found that people who felt as though they were languishing are the people most likely to develop serious depression and anxiety disorders over the next decade. Grant said that the term was first coined by Corey Keyes, a sociologist at Emory University.
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