NAFI – but not sad

All the beautiful words for symptoms of depression

A quickie: founding subscribers, I’ll see you on 1 January 2025 for January Reset.

If you’d like to join January Reset, there’s still time until 30 December 2024 to upgrade to become a founding subscriber.

This year’s founding subscribers are entitled to an hour one-on-one with me to Pick My Brain in 2025.

Update your subscription here:

‘Night and day’, a painting by Lars Elling (from his book Palimpsest) PICTURE: Karin Schimke

The hum of nothing

Apathy, ennui, anhedonia – but without the melancholy.

Torpor, languor and lethargy – but without complete paralysis.

Detachment and listlessness that aren’t signs of pathology.

Maybe it’s possible to seem depressed, and act depressed, without being it.