But I was really finding that like, Wow, I'm feeling kind of burned out by this whole thing, and by burned out I mean that I was feeling a sense of apathy, a sense that it was all meaningless.
All passiveness and unconcern had dropped from them. They were alert and active, anxious that the work should go well, and fiercely irritable with whatever, by delay or confusion, retarded that work.
" So why's Dumbledore been so keen to keep me in the dark? " Harry asked, still trying hard to keep his voice casual. " Did you—er—bother to ask him at all? "
Since serotonin is one of those feel-good neurotransmitters, having more of it likely improves some of the other symptoms like withdrawal and flat affect.
He bent suddenly to retrieve his hat and she had one glimpse of his face. It was the unhappiest face she was ever to see, a face from which all aloofness had fled.
In 2023, there was a similar response, or lack thereof, when a white handyman named Lawrence Herr was murdered while he was fixing his elderly mother's mailbox in a suburb of New Orleans.
I mean, we work with some people who have schizophrenia and they're really blunted and they're having cognitive dysfunction and sometimes neuromuscular disorders.