Posted by yesac on June 28, 2003, at 16:40:54
In reply to Re: How to stave off boredom? » yesac, posted by Penny on June 27, 2003, at 15:21:39
> Is it truly boredom, or depression? You said you used to be an avid reader, now you can't concentrate. You dread the weekends (unstructured time, which is a problem for most depressed folks).That is a very good question - one that I have been trying to figure out. Or is it ADD is another recent thought? The thing is that makes me wonder is that I've been quite depressed for a long time, and the reading was never a problem until the past 6 months or so. Throughout all of my depression, reading was often one thing that really helped me through at least temporarily. It's true - the unstructured time is somewhat new to me since and it's hard to get used to. I graduated college 2 years ago, but then I was in AmeriCorps for a year which I will say was HIGHLY structured or at least my freedom was extremely limited (hard to explain unless I launched into an entire discussion of the program I was in). So it's been only within the last >1 year that I've had this open schedule so to say, except for work.
> I wish I could give you some ideas. It's hard when you have too much free time - do you volunteer? If you had a volunteer position doing something you were passionate about, maybe that would help, could take up some of the free time.I do some volunteering, but maybe just not enough!
> Sorry I'm not much help.I appreciate all responses, nice to know someone reads my posts and at least has something to say about it. Plus, honestly, I pretty much know that no one can really help me with the boredom. There is no miracle cure or words of advice that I haven't already heard or thought of... at least I don't think so. Maybe they'll come up with an anti-boredom pill one of these days!
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