Ennui Explained: How Inside Out 2’s New Emotion Affects Kids

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Ennui Explained: How Inside Out 2’s New Emotion Affects Kids

Anxiety, envy, nostalgia, embarrassment and…ennui? Four of the new emotions in the upcoming Disney/Pixar movie Inside Out 2 – the latest peek inside the mind of now-teenage girl Riley – are sure to ring a bell. But what’s ennui? A quick Google search will tell you it’s just another word for boredom. But there’s more to it than that, says Kyle Boerke, PsyD , a clinical child psychologist and the director of behavioral health outpatient services f…