It’s all about the range of mood, not the type of mood!

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    Are you sure euthymia is the right word here? I had to look it up and it (after wading through a lot of crap actually) seems to say that you are in an okay state when you have bipolar problems. Which doesn’t sound right?

    Just saying maybe its a very specialised word compared to the other ones

    • activ8rEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      Euthymia just means to be in a calm and tranquil mood.
      There is a generally accepted medical definition that is frequently used with bipolar and depressive disorders to describe a stable mood (at least in the UK, I assume it is in other English speaking countries).
      Given the community we are in I think it’s being used suitably here 😊

      • activ8rEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Ennui is more despair*. The center is half way between mania and depression, and half way between happiness and sadness. It’s a state of calm and tranquility. Not happy or sad, but not manic or depressed.

        Edit:
        *Sorry, don’t think I could have been more unclear with that if I tried. What I meant to say was “Ennui is like Euthymia, but with a touch of despair. It’s more about feeling a little down and listless.”

        • ApyteleOPEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          I feel like that would be the depression version of sadness but idk what the equivalent would be for the depressed intensity of happiness. Honestly from going through a thesaurus (a hobby of mine) “complacence” has almost the exact connotation but an imperfect denotation.

    • ApyteleOPEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      Like the others said, it’s the exact right word for that exact level (a state of overall mood intensity that allows for anger, sadness, and happiness, but that doesn’t often go to the extremes of rage, despair, or euphoria) and I couldn’t think of a less clinical term for that exact state.