The symptoms equivalent to the ICD-10 core symptoms of a diagnosis of depression (depressed mood to a degree that is definitely abnormal for the individual, loss of interest or pleasure in activities that are normally pleasurable, and decreased energy or increased fatigability [ 21]) improved the most during treatment of DLL [ 11, 14].
But it is also intensely pleasurable: Barker's sheer energy is irresistible, while the intelligence that drives this small comic universe is both spikily awkward and sweetly benign.
"Drunkenness is rare," he wrote, "and if so, it rarely manifests itself in a boisterous or belligerent manner, but more frequently takes the shape of song, fun, and a general pleasurable feeling of warmth, energy, and self-command, and hence those horned crimes that sometimes shock us in the United States are rarely heard of here".
Low positive affect (PA) corresponds to lethargy and sadness, whereas high PA reflects high energy, concentration and pleasurable mood states.
Laughter, according to Freud, is aroused at actions that appear immoderate and inappropriate, at excessive expenditures of energy: it expresses a pleasurable sense of the superiority felt on such occasions.
The terms PA and NA are not considered as opposites, but as distinctive dimensions with high PA a state of high energy, full concentration and pleasurable engagement and low NA a state of calmness and serenity [ 6].
These energy-dense plants were pleasurable to eat and provided the calories needed to fuel a strenuous lifestyle.
Such practices let loose the disorganizing energies of the body, the pleasurable rupture of sense and nonsense.
In them, she puts her mind to big philosophical questions — matter, energy, metaphysics, time — and reminds us how pleasurable it is to be in the company of a somewhat old-fashioned desire to figure such things out.
Having sex in a way that is pleasurable to you reminds you that you still have young, vibrant energy inside and helps you glow from the inside out.
