[puzzclar]

I'm very bored with life and I find myself trying to think of old coping skills to cope.... its not working. What ideas do you have to cope with boredom?

[gayleggg]

I am having a lot of trouble with this right now, too. I try reading which helps a little. I like crafts but money is a little too tight to do any of them. I like to get out and take pictures. Mostly I spend time on PC.

[Fuzzybear]

PC, and red wine

I love to read (but have been very limited with what I can read for some time due to freakin allergies.. To pretty much everything )

I love animals and pets (but am allergic )

So yes, I can relate to being bored

[puzzclar]

I just find myself needing more excitement.... more things to do, since reading no longer is of interest to me... I pick up books then never read them.... I have so many books yet no desire to read them. I just need some motivation to do things... I'm thinking that my depressive episode is coming... I hate even admitting that.

[puzzclar]

And I shouldn't have said that..... I can't take this anymore. I just feel so hopeless. .... seeing t tomorrow.

[puzzclar]

Well that didn't help.... that session was not helpful...then again continuing to relapse isn't helpful. I've gotten back into addiction and feeling very down because of the relapse. I'm beating myself about it and it's only ending in disaster...

Trigger warning...

Possible trigger:

I'm struggling more than I want to admit but I have too, I feel safe here, and maybe getting it out will help. I recently went through my meds with my sister.... and found a lot of stuff that I had been saving.... I guess I need to enact a safety plan but I just don't want too.... So I text a friend and she is busy, I just don't want to be a bother to anyone... which my psychology training kicks in and says get off your butt and do something productive, don't just sit there feeling crappy, do something... then the depression side says, oh go ahead and stay put, nothing will help..... Psychology side says back, it will help if you get off your butt and go for a walk or do something remember you are only making this worse for yourself. I hate listening to the rational side and this just keeps on going back and forth through all of the walls I have put up.

I need encouragement to keep going.... and there is no one around me irl. I should just get off my butt but I really don't want to.

[eggplantlife]

I too wrote a tread about boredom. I am going through it. I have had tooth pain and somehow I was led to drinking and it eased my pain but now drinking too much.

Things to cope should be fun. I mean the things I do to cope are not fun. People keep telling me to do what mskes me happy. Things don't make me happy so what do I do?

Then today I was thinking that if depression says to sleep, then sleep. I Jean I have been told to go through my emotions. I need to go through them to come to the other side. I really feel like I do. So why am I not coming through to the other side.

It seems when I am feeling better, I realize how bored I am then I get depressed. I can't come up with things to do. Go out and walk. Yeah, I do them, but really, is it doing anything? It does make the time pass and sometimes you met up with someone or an animal or plant.

This life sucks but have to force myself to say "it's going to be a wonderful day" sometimes works but I always come back diwn.

Just get me out of here soneone! That's how I feel.

I am in a mild depression and I experience the boredom problem too. I didn't have this problem before I became depressed. I don't have a job right now and I only volunteer 10-1/2 hours a week, so I have a lot of free time.

I do spend way too much time on the computer, although part of that is job searching. I took up jogging, I read a little bit, I go to AA meetings, take horse riding lessons but that's only once every two weeks.

As soon as I can run a 5k I'll be doing races on the weekends. As soon as my horse riding skills improve, I'll be allowed to do trail riding on the weekends too. As soon as summer comes, hopefully I can crew for sailboat races or cruises. I signed up for it at least so we'll see. In the meantime, I'm open to suggestions too!

[alienrock]

Instead of doing what makes you happy, do what you dig.

Happiness will generate itself.

[eggplantlife]

Originally Posted by alienrock

Instead of doing what makes you happy, do what you dig.

Happiness will generate itself.

That is the point that there is nothing that one dig that why no happiness.
My brain can't come up with something.
Maybe have to do with age.
No.
Listening to motivation audio and meditation lessons...not doing it for me.

[alienrock]

Do this...

Get a glass.
Fill it with water.
hold the glass for a minute.
pour water on your head.
scream obscenities backwards while standing on a table or sitting on a counter
throw cereal around room
listen to the sound of the grass
kiss your refrigerator.
write thank you on the wall

[puzzclar]

Lol. A lot. And smile!

Im boring as hell,desperation, hopelessness,loneliness,nothing to do everyday all day.

[francisR]

Hi Puzzclar

Perhaps returning to activities you find interesting and rewarding would help. It does help also having a consuming purpose in life. Which could be a charitable cause for reconnection with something that fired you up in earlier times. I hope and pray this will improve for you in the future. Have a really great day. God bless and best wishes from your friend Francis