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Apathy and depression are different conditions, not degrees of one thing: a person can lose all motivation while remaining perfectly happy.

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motivation What makes effort feel worth it: the neuroscience of wanting to act, apathy, dopamine, and habit.

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  1. Masud Husain Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford
    there are some people who have pure apathy, no depression like David. And there are other people who can be depressed, they can be sad, they can be hopeless about the future, but they don't necessarily lose motivation. They can have pure depression.

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