Are You Easily Bored?

I just read a post by thebelljar12, which rang so true with me. I am incredibly easily bored. If I'm not feeding my brain, learning something, I get very agitated.

So I'm posting this poll. I'm curious if anyone else has this experience, if it is common amongst people with mental health issues.

Post your experiences.

Easily bored? Ohhhh yes.

I can't sit through a lecture in college (or couldn't, anyway, when I was still going) without doing something other than taking notes. I used to doodle, write short stories or sketches, read something or play chess on my phone. Want to ruin my day? Put me on a train/bus/plane to somewhere and take away my notebook and my phone. I hate long trips if I'm not going by car and driving at least half the way there.

And then, I have a really short attention span when it comes to work. I have to do several things at once and switch between them constantly so I can keep myself interested long enough to have a decent output. I can do only one thing at a time, but after a while I'll just blitz through it as fast as I can just to get it over with.

Hmm...I need a third option. Yes, I am easily bored, but I can also entertain myself very effectively.

I don't like being bored, as in bored to death. I think I can always find something to do, even if i don't like doing what I'm doing at the time. Is that understandable?

No. If I'm left to myself. But if you force me to do things I don't want to do, yea then I get bored. I'm too creative to ever feel bored if I'm left to myself.

Don't take this badly. I'm bored around other people. I tested out for Asperger's but I'm not going to use that crutch. I'm obviously self-centered and selfish.

I, too, find things to do, which rarely involve other people.

I don't think it is a crutch at all. Most people with Asperger's I've met have not being fine being alone. They have often felt lonely and excluded so I think it's a myth that aspies want to be alone all the time.

I know because I am a lone wolf plus I have AS and I can see my fellow aspies look for interaction when I'm not. I don't mind people but stupid people bore the heck out of me.

No. I always find something to do. My interests are diverse so it is easy for me to prevent boredom. If I give into it, I think way too much about my problems.

If none of my pastimes alleviate the feeling, I lie down and read; it works every time!

P.S. I have Asperger's and prefer my own company but I don't mind being around others from time to time, especially if they are interesting.

Ohh yes extremely...I work a real active job with kids, this keeps me young and interesting!!!!

Me too!

I put no as I see boredom as not being able to think of anything to do, rather than always needing something to do.

For me it's more a matter of quickly losing interest in things, or things losing their meaning. Then I just kind of float around, not wanting to do anything. It's a vicious cycle for me.

I put, yes, I bore easy. I've just learned to work around that, finding some way or another to keep hobbies, etc, that I use to work through that bored feeling. And I choose jobs, that I know, boredom won't be too big of an issue for me. Getting bored at work, can be a slippery slope for me.

This is me as well. I bought a wii and a Xbox, I've lost interest in both. I join the gym and went three weeks. I'm sitting im Bible study bored.

I said no because I love the moments in my life when I have nothing to do, no one to take care of, nowhere I have to be. I don't get bored; I cherish those moments because as a wife, mother of three, and high school teacher, having nothing to do is such a rarity and a blessing.

God yes...but I am so anxious it's hard to relax and let myself feel something else. I can't even relax and watch a movie on Netflix because my head won't stop spinning...and eventually the same spinning crap gets boring.
I did take an ADD test once and they said that no, I was just easily bored. So I guess that answers that.

i'm actually 1 of these people who don't believe in "bordom"

i lose focus easily (have a very short attention span) and i find few things that interest me

but the way i see it it's far from bored.. more depression

I get bored extremely easily & I find the state of it to be pretty intolerable.

easily bored, nothing interest me, bacsically a boring person