Boredom so intense I feel like I'm going to implode. I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin. I don't even know if the word "boredom" fits this. I have this terrible, debilitating lack of motivation. It's the feeling that I HAVE to do something, but I can't/don't feel like it. I've spent the past 5 hours sitting around feeling like my muscles are going to burst out of my body.

Why is this? Why can't I DO anything? It's not everyday. It only gets this bad every once in a while. It used to happen to me all the time, but not so much anymore. For some reason, today is the most intense it's ever been that I remember. I can't sit still, but I can't find anything to do. There's hundreds of things I could do to pass my time, but I don't feel like doing anything. I put in a video game, and only got 5 minutes into it before feeling like I didn't want to do it. I put in a movie, and it didn't even get to the menu screen before I decided I didn't want to watch it. I'm restless, but tired. I'm depressed, but apathetic. I can't handle this feeling anymore. I don't know what I'm supposed to do about this. Writing this is taking me upwards of 45 minutes because it's so hard to bring myself to type it. Does anybody else have issues like this? With boredom? I have no homework (ever... I go to an alternative high school, and never have homework), I don't have a job, I don't have any chores... There's just nothing I can do. Nothing I feel like I can do, but I feel like I HAVE to do SOMEthing. It's the most terrible feeling ever.

I just want to render myself unconscious. I can't deal with it anymore. I can't fathom having to put up with it any longer than I already have. I feel like I'm in solitary confinement, and I'm slowly going insane... except not so slowly. I fear I'm going to snap one of these days and do something crazy. I have a history of impulsiveness.

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I wish I had seen your post before now! Yes, I ahve had feelings similar to what you describe. For me, it comes and goes… it is as if I NEED to do something but yet I just can't figure out what that something is??? <O:p</O:p

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Cutting to the chase, it sounds like you are lacking a purpose in life, have you considered a part time job? Sometimes when we have too much time on our hands, our minds play games with our emotions. At least that is the way it is f<st1:PersonName w:st="on">or</st1:PersonName> me. Also haning someone to talk to professionally could help you figure out how to handle the way you feel. That is my next step once we finish figuring out the ADD thing.


I can't wait to get back to w<st1:PersonName w:st="on">or</st1:PersonName>k so I have something concrete to "focus" on. Looks like I'm a bit ADD so I use the term focus very loosely.


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Take care,
Cowboy

Yes thats me!

I am flunking my semester because of my uncontrollable boredom and lack of motivation to the program I am currently in.

I know exactly how you are feeling! I am feeling much of the same way.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Don't stimulants fix this? The right dose of ritalin could get a horse to do jumping jacks.

To my knowledge, this problem is mostly ignored by the medical orthodoxy. Extreme boredom and lack of motivation is related to a hypoactive mesolimbic dopamine system. Taking SSRIs will exacerbate the problem for some.

SO what's to do? I think boosting the indolent basal ganglia would do miracles ( most Parkinsons suffer extreme boredome, inactivity and lack of motivation,too ).

So try one or more of the following meds: ( talk with your doc about that--I'm not a specialist in the fields of psychiatry/neuroscience ):


- Modafinil, a glutamate-enhancing agent ( low doses ) ; - Methylphenidate, a dopamine-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor; - Selegiline, an irreversible MAO-B inhibitor ( in every case no more than 10 mg/d!!!----at higher doses you mustn't combine it with anything, since it is then a MAO A inhibitor , too ); - Milnacipran, a serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor; -Reboxetine, a noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor; or , more daringly, - amphetamines like ADDERALL or Dexedrine, noradrenaline-dopamine releasing agents.


Hope I could help you..

Good luck!

Interesting topic.
Until I started medication 3 years ago I never felt “bored” unless I was trapped in a situation that was beyond my control. School, a movie maybe a diner with certain people made me nuts. Day to day I’d jut move from one thing to the next to keep me stimulated and eventually things would get done.
Of course I am still bored in those situations but since I started taking Adderall, my evenings are rough. After dinner, if I do not have anything social or active planned I can’t seem to summon up the energy to do anything that is not passive.
The same thing that during the day I could handle, in the evening seems monumental and beyond my capacity, I look around and the smallest chore seems overwhelming.
it never dawned on me until this post that that is what depression is.
I take the short acting Adderall and I do take a dose around 5-6 PM so it is not the medication wearing off.
I do have a single beer in the evening, but I have done that for the past 15 years or so.

Me again,
Please note; I do not want to take the subject of depression lightly; I mean no disrespect for those who suffer.
Isn’t depression negative energy?
Isn’t whatever the opposite of depression positive energy?
I understand that those who suffer from true depression are UNABLE to control the balance.
But it seems some of us are just drawn to the “dark side” from time to and sucked in by the negative energy, it over whelms us and we allow it to take over because we can’t find the strength to do any thing else.

Frankly I am bored with being bored it and it is time to move on. How funny; I can’t tell you the amount of times a thread on this site has help change a destructive pattern.
Thanks all!!!

Another idea: Although activating agents may be useful, this is still a topic for your doc, I don't have the skills to fully understand the neurobiological underpinnings.

So another very practical method to combat extreme boredom woul be vigorous exercise ( especially first anerobic body-building and after that, a jogging tour ). Moderate caffeine consumption before the exercise may be useful as well ( caffeine may abolish extreme muscle pain ).

Strong exercise induces the release of both endogenous opioids and beta-phenylethylamine ( an endogenous amphetamine ) that may brighten mood and banish boredom.

Hi I would just like to add that I right now right at this very minute am crawling out of my skin.I suffer chronically with boredom to the point that the only way I can deal with it is to punch myself in the legs to feel anything at all.
I just got ripped off with a job, my very first in my new business.
I got two cheques that bounced from the same guy so obviously I won't be going back to work for him.
So this week I have been without work.
Let me explain my situation so it makes a bit more sense.
I came over to Canada to marry my wife in December and we didn't think that we would be here all that long. So obviously I am not legally allowed to work.
I have 'worked' for her mum for the most part which has been a horrible existence since her mother is a 'head the ball' !!
When I wasn't working for mum in law my partner had a part time job so I would be in the house all day. I found some notes recently that I had written from them. Wow wasI bored!!
So my partner left her job realising that I was going slightly demented not having anything to do. We then began 'working' for her mum again.Argh!
Anyway up to now after everybody making it clear that they don't give a s@#t we decided to set up a legit business in our chosen profession.
Yey!! Not quite. We started last monday worked thru to Saturday. Tried cashing cheques this Monday. Bouncey bouncey.
Now we are back at square one with hardly any money, commitments are too boring to mention but can't be left or avoided. Boredom is f@#$ing killing me now and I am also not eating and haven't done so for the last two months due to stress and meds.
I am sorry for hijacking this thread its just that the OP has hit the nail on the head so to speak and I have no-one else that really understands.
I am now being cuckolded into going on a walk which seems kinda pointless as I still have to come back to the house.
The positive thing being that my typing skills are a lot better after spending the last 7 months on the computer!!
Oh the joy of the world wide web.
Wheres the number for the nearest optician........
Thanks for letting me spew forth!
Later Later
Stimpysuzie
20mg Adderall XR :confused:

Gee. welcome to Canada! Yeesh...

NB i would go to the Police about the NSF cheques.

Fraud is fraud. They may even have a record of convictions for fraud.

In Canada, for a repeat offender, fraud sentences can approach those of the sentences for break&Enter or Robbery.

These sorts of folks are often repeat offenders. (I was in a rel'p with a big check bouncer, once. Yeesh.)

Crap - I do that.

I'm currently on Cymbalta.

AND, I don't get this part, but IF I'm not UP and out of the house BY around noonish, I won't get out. Like on wknds...if there is a function late afternoon/early eve and I've been home all day or for several hours BEFORE the function, I won't go.:confused:

I've NEVER understood why I'm like that.

Does anyone else do this???

Kiisethwa I am exactly the same as you if I am not out of the house same time as you by noon then good luck in making me want to go.
What is that all about ?
I don't have any idea other than in my head I figure that anything worthwhile doing should have been started in the morning.
What a strange creature I am!!

We are DIFFERENT, aren't we?

I have struggled all my life and I am only 23! with ADHD and I have fought (not physically) with various people that state that I am 'special' or 'different', one guy even went as far as saying ' good luck in life you'll need it'.
So different and special are quite offensive to me personally but thats only cause I have had some really negative comments made towards me that have affected me deeply.
Some people like to be called 'different' or 'special' I am just not one of them.

I have struggled all my life and I am only 23! with ADHD and I have fought (not physically) with various people that state that I am 'special' or 'different', one guy even went as far as saying ' good luck in life you'll need it'.
So different and special are quite offensive to me personally but thats only cause I have had some really negative comments made towards me that have affected me deeply.
Some people like to be called 'different' or 'special' I am just not one of them.
Alot of people including myself use the word "Special" to describe one of my best friends who also has ADHD and is one of the most musically talented, sincere and warm hearted people I have ever met. I also heard that term used to describe myself. I think "special" is one of those words in which the meaning depends on the context in that it is used. Even the word "different" depends on context. We are different, we do think differently, we learn different, but after all my struggles I wouldn't change anything about myself. All this does NOT mean there is something wrong with us. People may not understand you, but there is nothing wrong with you. There wasn't anything wrong with Albert Einstein, John Lennon and many many other famous people with ADHD either. The reason they think different IS the reason they changed the world. ADHD has been extremely important in the evolution of technology. Alot of inventions today that we can't get by without but are taken for granted were invented by people like us.

Hi I would just like to add that I right now right at this very minute am crawling out of my skin.I suffer chronically with boredom to the point that the only way I can deal with it is to punch myself in the legs to feel anything at all.
I just got ripped off with a job, my very first in my new business.
I got two cheques that bounced from the same guy so obviously I won't be going back to work for him.
So this week I have been without work.
Let me explain my situation so it makes a bit more sense.
I came over to Canada to marry my wife in December and we didn't think that we would be here all that long. So obviously I am not legally allowed to work.
:confused:
I am originally from Canada and hope your experience there gets better. I'm not really suprised what happened, just because it is not the U.S., I would certainly not let your guard down. My home town had it's share of crime. Canada is also a very diverse country and there are alot of really great people too.

Don't let what happened lessen your image of Canada. You are just as likely to experience some awesome random acts of kindness. One night while at a nightclub I lost my drivers licence, believe it or not a few days later I got a letter from the Windsor Police department telling me to pick it up at the lost and found. It was there I found that somebody picked it up and gave it to the first cop they seen so that I would get it back. That was 1 week before I moved to the U.S. and saved me a huge hassle.
As for the looser that ripped you off, I hope he lands in jail.

=O!! I feel exactly the same way.. only its pretty much all the time =X

I've gotten a bit better since taking ADHD medication, which is good :rolleyes:

But it really sucks. I can't force myself to do even what I WANT to do, I want to do it but as soon as I start (if I DO even start) I can't do it. It drives me crazy, how can you NOT do what you WANT to do? :confused: