Life Apathy

[James Elks]

Does anyone just loose interest in literally everything. sometimes after work I sit at home just staring into space almost all night, cause I don't want to do anything basically because nothing is pleasurable, I don't care enough to do anything productive, and feel I can't relate to or understand my friends a lot of the time. getting into some old habits is also getting more tempting as a result. Feels trapping. Anyone had or have some advice on this?

 

[Leah Morgan]

Does anyone just loose interest in literally everything. sometimes after work I sit at home just star...

I know how you feel people keep telling me to live for that moment and just feel what you are feeling and be with those feelings but it's hard when you don't appear to feel anything

 

[Friday]

For sure. To the point that I had no job, no home, no friends. Just slept on the beach... And, not as badly, to the point where I still had no job/friends/etc., but the home thing was taken care of, would spend 20 hours a day asleep in bed, 4 hours simply staring off into space. Or vice versa, 3 hours asleep & 20 hours staring at infinity.

I'm pretty sure they call this depression.

 

[barefoot]

I'm pretty sure they call this depression.

Yep...

 

[Digz]

It sucks when you get like that. I get like it sometimes. All I want to do is lie in bed and watch things on TV and not move. The longer I stay there, the harder I find it is to get up. It's cyclic. I think that's the key, but of course it's much easier thought and said, than done. The longer you stay where you are the worse you feel... yet so much of you tells you not to get up, to hide from the world. I just try and remember those words I know logically when I'm not feeling this way, 'the longer I stay here, the worse I'll feel'.
Sometimes it works and I get up and do something that breaks the cycle.
Other times I ignore my own advice and stay in bed.
Like I said, easier thought, easier said - much harder done.

 

[James Elks]

I know how you feel people keep telling me to live for that moment and just feel what you are feelin...

Definitely!

 

[James Elks]

For sure. To the point that I had no job, no home, no friends. Just slept on the beach... And, not a...

Yeah it's wierd though I don't feel sad, just an emptiness from maybe knowing I should be. Maybe it could fall under that umbrella. But I don't have thoughts of ending my life, just getting away from it somehow, that sounds intense with what you expierienced. I tend to work to keep busy but have lost friends and been behind on bills

(I meant what you expierienced sounds intense)

 

[James Elks]

It sucks when you get like that. I get like it sometimes. All I want to do is lie in bed and watch things...

Yeah it's certainly cyclic for me, I get long bouts of it which usually go with a weirdly non disturbing feeling I'm gonna die soon. I spose a cycle breaker like you were describing makes sense. Hard to do of course. especially when you're kinda detached from life in general and in your own haze not wanting to interact or go out where there's lots of noise and people. Work can be hard too in that sense. Worrying about my reactions to certain noises in front of people. Need a new opportunity or event maybe. I dunno. Cheers:)