Boredom Makes Me Not Want to Do Anything

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Being bored nullifies a desire to do anything, further exacerbating the problem. Sometimes I just feel bored and lethargic for no reason, and trying to do anything to get myself interested just peters out, usually within minutes, because I can not sustain interest or enthusiasm when I feel like this.

It's an annoying vicious circle of me sitting in bed and staring at my wall.

And I have no interest in anti-depression medication or psychiatrists. I think it's all frauds, government subsidy whores and crackpots. Also, most AD (and seizure meds) are proven to impair cognitive ability, and I'd rather be dead than dumb.

I drink lots of caffeine, and occasionally ginseng and stuff. Helps a lot.

And they put sodium ionic fluoride in our drinking water that you can find ingested by an already dead rat , when 99% of other countries in Europe rejected it.

Psychiatrists could be called drug dealers , as literally they are , some Shrinks even abuse once an awhile - not surprisingly since they have the highest suicide rate among physicians because they go into the profession with their own problems to get help , in attempt to understand the patient better.

I understand where you're coming from.
Sometimes, it's as if nothing in the world holds any interest to me... As if the only reasonable thing to do is going to sleep or staring at the wall and crying about my misery.
But we all have each other in this website - we can help if one is bored or depressed, or at the very least try to be of use.
I can only hope any help I can offer will be of use to you.

I no longer solely associate boredom with depression and other states of body and brain. There are many other good reasons to become jaded.

I'm honestly almost never bored. I think the only times I've ever been bored were in a solitary confinement cell with no books and the lights kept on for observation. That is pretty legitimately boring, you can't really even sleep.

I think a lot has to do with how you're stimulated as a kid. I got no like, console games and very very limited PC games as a kid, and also, not terribly much TV. So like, when I got home from school, unless it was rainy or something, I'd go outside and grab sticks and swing them around and make up gigantic stories and act them out all by myself basically until it was dark out. I probably did this til I was like...11 or so? I think it's just innate in me to just like...do stuff, regardless. Like, one of my latest hobbies I've gotten into from boredom is actually just cooking stuff. I sorta just continually find things to do, things that interest me. As a kid, too, even, before I had internet, I'd go and read encyclopedias and become obsessed with random things like phonograph records and magnetic tape and animation. I made a record player from a sewing needle, spool of thread, and a paper cone. I always just made and did stuff as a kid, when I was bored, I'd just like, do stuff, take apart random old electronics or something. Why? Why not?

Cave Johnson (Portal 2) quotes!

I have been having increasing rage attacks, sometimes for hours; it makes me sick and sometimes I feel like the only feelings I have left are hate.

Not meant to offend but I've noticed you're pretty full of rage on this site. You don't trust other people to be competent and smart and understanding of reality and I am wondering if it is due to the failure of the world to respect the reality of your needs as a human being early on. This would cause me anyway to think: screw what anybody else says I should do; they are not guided by a concern for my welfare. I will do what I find to be in my interest. I don't know your whole story but the whole world is not as deleterious to your welfare as the world that shaped your current attitudes was. I know you know that but I know from experience it is a very hard thing to change the attitudes and behaviors molded by early experiences.

Anyway I think the ability to trust and the ability to love (as opposed to hate) are inseparable. I wonder if setting yourself the challenge of going to a place whose whole reason for being is to do things in others' best interest, say some kind of volunteer organization, and doing your best to respect the people there as competent and smart people who may do things differently from you but are smart nonetheless, would be a way to start trusting people more and getting rid of the rage attacks. You can't go wrong with a volunteer organization, nobody there is going to try to manipulate you or fight with you or whatever, they are in it for the betterment of the world.

I don't know what you might think of this.

Yuck. I have felt this way before. I've always been prone to irritability and bouts of miserable boredom and anhedonia. I mean, I had it as a child whenever I didn't have an obsession to keep my mind occupied or couldn't do something I really wanted to do. Once puberty hit it turned into full blown depression.

I take modafinil which is sort of a long acting stimulant. It helps quite a bit with motivation and irritability. Back when I drank caffeine all the time I often felt sick. I either felt trembly and nauseous or I had headaches and/or extreme laziness.