Feel like you're stuck in a rut? If the answer is yes, you're right in the middle of a trend of the post-pandemic "blahs" that many people are feeling, which has a technical term called languishing. The New York Timescalled languishing the "middle child" of mental health since it's neither depression nor anxiety, but something in between where you feel stuck and unexcited by your daily routine. The main reason you may be feeling stuck is that during the early months of last year we were in a heightened state of alert, and once that subsided our return to normal feels unusually bland, emotionally. One way to see it is that we subconsciously fear getting out of our daily routine because we associate it with discomfort. You may have convinced yourself that the risk is not worth the discomfort that accompanies it.