Anyone here have bad anhedonia / boredom?

[jodes2]

I don't enjoy anythin anymore and it's a real struggle to full the days. When I watch something on TV I'll have it on for about 5 minutes before I lose interest and end up flicking through SS

 

[hamvil]

here I am

i am spending my days on the couch watching silly youtube video or on pornhub.

untill a few day ago i could walk in the forest but now I am back to my work city and it is horrible

i had to doctor put me in sick leave because I could not stand.

I have zero ideas about what to do, anything feels boring

 

[jodes2]

here I am

i am spending my days on the couch watching silly youtube video or on pornhub.

untill a few day ago i could walk in the forest but now I am back to my work city and it is horrible

i had to doctor put me in sick leave because I could not stand.

I have zero ideas about what to do, anything feels boring

Yeah, it means it feels like there's nothing to live for. Who'd have thought boredom could be lethal. Do you have ADHD too or just depression?

 

[hamvil]

I have not been diagnosed for ADHD, however my attention span in very low. I keep jumping between things. For example if I am reading something I stop often to maybe check updates here on SS or I jump to youtube to check the suggested videos, or I quickly watch a porn clip. On top of that severe depression.

 

[Mr2005]

I know you're new or you'd know it fills the forums. Life has never been less boring and yet people have never been more bored. Sign of the times. Excessive stimulation, can't pay attention to anything for more than five minutes. It's sad really. Killed by entertainment

 

[hamvil]

I know you're new or you'd know it fills the forums. Life has never been less boring and yet people have never been more bored. Sign of the times. Excessive stimulation, can't pay attention to anything for more than five minutes. It's sad really. Killed by entertainment

Most of the content you find online feels boring. In this phase I am watching youtube videos on games (mostly skyrim and fallout). Porn also i getting boring, always the same stuff and looking for more extreme videos. Ah on top of this soon I will have to face students which are the most boring thing on the planet. Same stupid questions, same stupid complains, immature and entitled.

 

[Mr2005]

Most of the content you find online feels boring. In this phase I am watching youtube videos on games (mostly skyrim and fallout). Porn also i getting boring, always the same stuff and looking for more extreme videos. Ah on top of this soon I will have to face students which are the most boring thing on the planet. Same stupid questions, same stupid complains, immature and entitled.

They've turned people into addicts for profit

 

[hamvil]

They've turned people into addicts for profit

Yes all social and designed to keep people attached to the screen, clickbaits, promoting divise content, etc. This is terrible for a person like me that has anger management issues. It is like cheap beer for an alcoholic

 

[Mr2005]

Yes all social and designed to keep people attached to the screen, clickbaits, promoting divise content, etc. This is terrible for a person like me that has anger management issues. It is like cheap beer for an alcoholic

It's terrible for me too but for slightly different reasons.

 

[jodes2]

Yes all social and designed to keep people attached to the screen, clickbaits, promoting divise content, etc. This is terrible for a person like me that has anger management issues. It is like cheap beer for an alcoholic

I want beer now

 

[Klophy]

Yeah, some days i'll just lay in bed rotting away.

 

[Celerity]

I have struggled with this. Right now, I'm not in the midst of it, thankfully, but I know it really sucks. Some people on here who haven't experienced this numbness denigrate it as easy compared to despair. They are different kinds of terrible. It is hard to explain how it feels unless you've felt it recently.

When I get really bad, I desire nothing, not even a solution to my problems. I just exist in the most minimal sense. Food loses taste. People lose their value in my heart. Music sounds like noise. The sunrise and sunset are just splashes of color against a backdrop no more interesting than the color of gum under my shoe. No stories are compelling; they all describe our pitiful condition of running the hedonic treadmill forever - but I have fallen off that treadmill, and things are actually so much worse for it.

To live is to want. When you can find nothing to want, that scraping desire is all that remains. It is pitiful. Nothing has ever ground down my will to live so effectively.

 

[hamvil]

It's terrible for me too but for slightly different reasons.

which reasons? if you feel like sharing of course

 

[jodes2]

I have struggled with this. Right now, I'm not in the midst of it, thankfully, but I know it really sucks. Some people on here who haven't experienced this numbness denigrate it as easy compared to despair. They are different kinds of terrible. It is hard to explain how it feels unless you've felt it recently.

When I get really bad, I desire nothing, not even a solution to my problems. I just exist in the most minimal sense. Food loses taste. People lose their value in my heart. Music sounds like noise. The sunrise and sunset are just splashes of color against a backdrop no more interesting than the color of gum under my shoe. No stories are compelling; they all describe our pitiful condition of running the hedonic treadmill forever - but I have fallen off that treadmill, and things are actually so much worse for it.

To live is to want. When you can find nothing to want, that scraping desire is all that remains. It is pitiful. Nothing has ever ground down my will to live so effectively.

Well put. What is it with losing interest in everything, even of love. Or music sounding like noise, I totally relate. I used to absolutely love music. Beautiful scenes are lost on me as well. Don't get any joy out of holidays so I don't go out.

 

[Mr2005]

which reasons? if you feel like sharing of course

I didn't do a computer course the year of my username. I'm not allowed to forget it now

 

[Life_and_Death]

chronic boredom. thank you bpd

 

[wljourney]

Well put. What is it with losing interest in everything, even of love. Or music sounding like noise, I totally relate. I used to absolutely love music. Beautiful scenes are lost on me as well. Don't get any joy out of holidays so I don't go out.

Yes I can absolutely relate to this.
It's been a progression of fewer and fewer and fewer things actually being able to spark a tiny bit of joy.
Year to year it has gotten worse.


I often try to explain it with Scrabble:
In the beginning you have maybe 7 or 8 letters and you can build words with it. Not all words, but quite a few.
Then one tile is taken away.
And another.
And another.
And at the end you sit there with 1 or two letters, but unfortunately the game is not over yet.
You are still expected to play.
But how?

 

[FuneralCry]

In my case, living simply doesn't interest me. I prefer the sound of non existence. I see no benefit to being alive and I don't see living as being enjoyable. All that life is, is just distracting ourselves until we eventually die. Theres no point to it all. I'm bored of suffering and being trapped with the same thoughts. I find it tiring, simply just existing.

 

[Hollowman]

I'm sick and tired of it all even sex is boring.

 

[Molded foundation]

Clean eating, exercise, meditation, reading, and stick to hobbies. Mind over matter.

 

[BitterlyAlive_]

I try to do things, but I get bored almost immediately. Sleeping is more appealing than feeling my brain rot.

 

[👁️👃👁️]

Eat some LSD or mushrooms. You'll have fun for a bit.

 

[Hollowman]

Clean eating, exercise, meditation, reading, and stick to hobbies. Mind over matter

Clean eating, exercise, meditation, reading, and stick to hobbies. Mind over matter.

I wish it was that simple for me.

 

[Zegers]

I've been researching about lack of motivation and stuck in sadness and i read about lack of testosterone, its a problem for men, guess what, depression affects testosterone so maybe a treatment could be a good idea, i dont know.

 

[jodes2]

Eat some LSD or mushrooms. You'll have fun for a bit.

My girlfriend would kill me if I ordered some to arrive at her place. Maybe I can have it sent to my old man's