Tag: Boredom
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Boredom in hospitalized patients
Aditi MahajanSana RahmanWashington D.C., United States On my medical school psychiatry rotation, we were asked to see a patient who had many medical problems. After rounding on him for a week, we realized that he was suffering from sheer boredom. He was in a foreign country where nobody spoke his native language, had limited familial…
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Enlightenment from Sherlock Holmes on COVID-19 associated perilous boredom
Daniel GelfmanIndianapolis, Indiana, United States Boredom can useful. It can motivate people to do great things. It can also be dangerous by increasing the risk of depression and the risk of participation in unhealthy activities.1 It is an emotional state of weariness through lack of interest that can result in the “pursuit of novel (even negative)…