Investigating languishing in North American genetic counselors.

Jay Vaunado¹, Justin Gomez-Stafford², Helen Kim³, Jessie Conta⁴, MaryAnn Campion⁵

¹Ambry Genetics, California, USA.

²Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

³Labcorp Genetics, Inc., Burlington, North Carolina, USA.

⁴Exact Sciences Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

⁵MS Program in Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.

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Abstract

Often, mental health is considered as a binary of being mentally well or mentally ill. Realistically, mental health exists on a broad spectrum with "flourishing" on one end and "depression" on the other. "Languishing" is the state that lies between the two; it is characterized by a lack of motivation, numbness, decreased productivity, and feeling sluggish or apathetic without veering into clinical…

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