Kate Hawkesby: Auckland's lockdown has me languishing

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 16, 2021 · 2m

Day 31 in Level 4 for Aucklanders, and boy, are we over it.

There’s actually a word for how we’re all feeling and it’s been called the dominant emotion of 2021.

It’s called languishing. Psychologist Dougal Sutherland, who we had on the show recently, says "the psychological toll of Delta may start to show, even for those out of lockdown now." He said recently that apparently even people with no existing or underlying mental health concerns can feel this languishing.

Languishing is basically just feeling like life is dull and meaningless, you can feel stagnant and empty. Everything seems…