Lately, I have been having a deep feeling of apathy...

[Imaginer]

And yet I can think of many things of why it could be but I can't think of a solution to get out of it...

Any of you feel the same?

 

[toph99]

all the time. great for stress levels when you just don't give a sh1t

 

[etech]

awww, who cares.

 

[rocmonster]

Q. whats the difference between ignorance and apathy?
A. I don't know and I don't care.

budump bum

 

[Dragnov]

Been feeling like this all my life! Well on mainly minor stuff... where to eat, what to do, where to go, etc.

 

[Aves]

I get that way towards the end of every semester.

 

[Moonbeam]

I listened to this interview today with Terry Gross on NPR:

Writer Andrew Solomon's new book on depression, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, (Scribner) came out of a 1998 New Yorker article. He draws on personal experience as well as interviews with patients, physicians, philosophers and drug designers.

He mentioned apathy as one of the symptoms. It seems to be a fact that one can experience some pretty crushing emotional feelings all at least in part related to various chemical consentrations in the brain and that can be altered, improved, by various drugs. There is a pon more to the issue, but if you really even close to feeling the kind of suicide contemplating apathy that is possible for some really a large number of people, you need to stick in your rational mind a realization that you may be suffering from chemicals rather than problems, and that you can get real help, even if the emotional mind thinks there's nothing you can do.

The guy wrote the book to give people knowledge on how help is possible.

I was there, once, too, at a point where there was nothing but black no exit hopelessness, nothing but utter meaninglessness. At the point I truly gave up I entered a state of pease and an end of grief. I don't understand it, but I know it happened to me and it happens to others.

Get into a dialogue with somebody responsible, a school psychologist, maybe, I don't know your circumstances, who can help you and provide sound judgment on whether you could use some help.

 

[blueghost75]

ok, here is a short story. i got depressed, sort of. i started taking St. Johns Wort. I wasn't so depressed anymore. I thought i was happy, then I realized that I was still in an apathectic mood all the time. I wouldn't care about stuff, but i was happy. The St. John's Wort basically took away a large amount of my feeling. For example, if my dog would have died, i probably would have shrugged and thought to myself, "oh well..." But I wouldn't get depressed, I just wouldn't care.

Then came along a really nice girl. She liked me, I taked to her some, and suddenly realized that I liked her a lot. That was one of the first emotions i had felt in several months. I stopped taking the St. Jons Wort, and whalla, I had feelings again. I just don't have so many reasons to be depressed anymore. The St. John's wort really just helped me get through the "bad" times, and accept what was going on, etc.

the story with the girl does not have a happy ending yet, because she started dating some other guy before i realized that she was sort of hitting on me, a little. She is 16, and she is dating some 20 year old college dropout pathetic looser. Anyhow, even though that is depressing, i would rather feel sad about that missed oportunity than feel nothing at all...