ever go through a time where youre not interested in anything?

[IronWing]

I'm here and you aren't interested? I'm hurt.

 

[brianmanahan]

i did think of one thing i am interested in: food

maybe that explains why i am 300 lbs D:

maybe i should become a chef :awe:

 

[Mixolydian]

i did think of one thing i am interested in: food

maybe that explains why i am 300 lbs D:

maybe i should become a chef :awe:

300 lbs? For realz?

 

[brianmanahan]

300 lbs? For realz?

yeah but down from my high of 342. i just cant beat the 300 barrier though, it is like an impenetrable wall to me

 

[HAL9000]

i mean, but nothing. not work, not hobbies, not outdoors, not sports, not tv or movies, not the internet. nothing. nothing feels interesting anymore. everything is meh. taking vacation next week but i really dont have anything to do. i might sleep all day every day, who knows. thought about just cancelling the vacation but i gotta take it sometime.

been like that for well over a year now. only thing i can correlate it to is really stressful work situations that i cant get out of. i look back on 2 or 3 years ago and they felt so awesome in retrospect, but im not sure if i will ever get back to that point or not.

maybe im just too old now. i am sure this is how old men feel all the time, maybe im just an old grumpy man. i didnt expect it to happen before i turned 30, but i guess i had a good run for a couple of decades.

Yeah, all the time.

Round my way we call it depression.

 

[BoomerD]

I'd answer...but I'm just not interested in doing so.

 

[eersnherd]

Just a suggestion. Get your testosterone level checked. Family doc can do the blood work. Had the same symptoms along with weight gain. Testosterone was at 160. Should be much higher for a 30 year old. Feeling better with replacement therapy.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Outside of my usual internet habits I find that nothing really interests me. My only ambition is life is to make enough money to keep my current habits strong.

 

[ShreddedWheat]

Yep, right now and living in Houston, TX only makes it worse! Went on vacation to CA about a week ago for 2 weeks and that was fun then back to reality.

 

[brianmanahan]

My only ambition is life is to make enough money to keep my current habits strong.

i feel kinda like that, but with no habits

 

[HamburgerBoy]

i feel kinda like that, but with no habits

So what do you do then?

 

[MrColin]

Its depression. I get it frequently but I have it under control. Some fruitcakes will tell you its because "you need to deal with some issues from your past" and coincidentally they can help you with it at ~$60 per hour. Some of them are worth it too but I think the "why" is a bit misleading.

Overeating is also a symptom and it can have complications that make you more depressed as well. Exercise ALWAYS helps, I've always felt better after excercise. The food thing is likely a disfunctional coping mechanism and you have probably learned some self defeating cognitive processes that will keep you in this rut until you learn to deal. There aren't any drugs appropriate for this kind of thing either you need to pull yourself out.

Do something active for 30 min each day, even if its only walking aroung the neighborhood. Or as one clever doctor put it, only spend 23.5 hours sitting, sleeping, or laying down each day.

 

[Gothgar]

Yeah... I kinda lost interest in a few hobbies I had. I am currently looking for new ones.

I was thinking abuot getting into home brewing, and that has me somewhat excited. I love beer.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

All the time. Usually it means I need a vacation.

Sleep for two days, then grab a case of beer and do the first thing that comes to mind. Preferably something you've never done before. Even if you don't like it, at least you did something new.

I suppose it could be the depression thing too. Exercise helps. (I need to start doing that again...)

 

[tcsenter]

Yeah, so I previously had no idea what depression was really. I thought it was some bullshit diagnosis for whiney and weak people to get attention. But then found out first-hand, the hard core way, that most often, persons who suffer from depression actually go to great lengths to convince others there is nothing wrong with them or that they are doing just fine. Exactly the opposite of being weak, whiney, and trying to get attention, many depressed persons try mightily to put on a facade of well-being or at least normalcy for all others.

Rather than feeling sorry for one's self, depression often manifests in losing interest in things or withdrawing from activities that one previously found enjoyable. If it lasts longer than two years without any remission or reprieve, its called dysthymia or dysthymic disorder.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I kinda been feeling the same way lately. Everything in my life is awesome, but I seem to not be motivated to take advantage of all the spare time I have and actually do something productive with it. I have lot of projects I always think that would be awesome to do, such as a full blown server management control panel, but I'm just never motivated to actually work on any of them, and end up going on failblog, reddit, forums and other sites like that like a zombie and just wasting away hours.

I really need to quit that crap and actually do something productive! I also need to expand my knowledge. Read programming books, try out new enterprise software in a VM, setup a Cisco lab etc...

 

[BudAshes]

Try some shrooms.

 

[jupiter57]

maybe im just too old now. i am sure this is how old men feel all the time, maybe im just an old grumpy man. i didnt expect it to happen before i turned 30, but i guess i had a good run for a couple of decades.

WHAT???!!!

You just turned 18.
You haven't even been alive for "a couple of decades"!

 

[brianmanahan]

WHAT???!!!

You just turned 18.
You haven't even been alive for "a couple of decades"!

well, if you round up

 

[jupiter57]

:biggrin:

 

[Engineer]

I think I just need to go into business for myself and quit working and worrying for/about the "man" (i.e. boss). So many unknowns but as they say, no risk, no reward.

 

[brianmanahan]

I think I just need to go into business for myself and quit working and worrying for/about the "man" (i.e. boss). So many unknowns but as they say, no risk, no reward.

i have thought about doing contracting vs employed. it seems a possible way to avoid some of the normal stressful stuff that i dont enjoy (long term planning, people management, inane meetings, getting 10 different departments on the same page), and more of the stuff i do enjoy (a&d, problem solving, programming). but contracting is more uncertain.

 

[mmntech]

I went through this after graduating university. Recession hit, no jobs, little prospect for a future. I remember being very depressed. I'd just spend all day on the computer doing little else other than applying for jobs. Got to a real low point in my life. Fortunately I had a friend at the time who helped me through it. I was 23 at the time. Not much older than the OP.

Go somewhere on your vacation. A change of scenery can help a lot.