Experts such as the American psychologist Adam Grant warn of the increasing fatigue in the pandemic as an attitude to life.
In the Anglo-Saxon world, phenomena are often named earlier than in the German-speaking world.
Last year, “Revenge Bedtime Procrastination” was the trend in the USA and Great Britain - the habit of going to bed too late, for example because of too much smartphone viewing, in German perhaps best as
bed-postponement *
out of revenge on life
described.
Now the "New York Times" discovered the dullness, the bobbing or "languishing", as a kind of feeling of the year 2021. The psychologist Adam Grant, who has also been translated into German ("Give and take: Why egoists don't always win and helpful people get ahead") ) wrote in an "NYT" article: In the corona pandemic, with its burdens and limitations, mental fatigue is, so to speak, the void between depression and euphoria -
the absence of fundamental wellbeing.
Answer honestly and don't deny your bad mood
You don't have any real symptoms of mental illness, but neither do you have all the signs of total mental health.
You don't work at full capacity
, you can hardly motivate and concentrate - and run the risk of slipping and possibly getting more seriously ill in your head, according to the author.
Grant recommends naming this phenomenon and thus making it less dangerous for the person concerned and for society
.
For many German readers, his tip to be honest instead of posh positive is hardly understandable, because in this country complaining and bad mood and too much honesty in conversations seem to be standard anyway.
Grant thinks, however, that one shouldn't answer the small talk formula “How are you?” (How are you?) In an overly standardized way with “Great!” Or “Fine” - but simply say that one is tired.
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