what would you call it?

[Vision Thing]

Do you ever feel.....not depressed per se, but a lack of feeling. You can't wake up in the mornings because it's hard to get out of bed, and you can't concentrate on anything you do? Like you wouldn't care if you died, but neither would you seek out death?

its been a confusing past fortnight and I wanted to ask you guys if you'd felt like this before. It's not really apathy, because I want my friends and the people around me to feel great, but I can't think of anything good about myself of my life...and then I feel pathetically stupid because at least I'm very lucky to even be in a first world country so I should shut up and stop feeling like this..?

[tulips]

You just described what I feel 90% of the time. I don't know why I feel that way. I wish I did.
I can never pay attention when I do, and I feel like I'm walking through something sticky and heavy, like molasses, if that makes any sense at all.
I would say something helpful, except that I'm in the same dilemma.

[cksummer]

yes i feel like that too sometimes= NUMB. some days are worse than others. just know that you are NOT alone in this. my advice would be to surround yourself with wonderful friends and family. find something you are passionate about. i am passionate about running track, and getting into medical school. i also love yoga and dancing. i don't know if this helped at all, but don't feel alone :-(

[skylines]

yeah, I feel that way all the time. especially about the death thing. like, I wouldn't mind if I got hit by a car, but I won't go running in front of them either. it feels so morbid, but I've gotten used to it, I guess.

I almost think it had to do with lack of stimulation. I mean, first-world countries are wonderful, and we are very lucky to live in one, but there aren't many situations in which our minds and bodies are required to be used for survival. I don't know if it makes much sense; but essentially I think people are so sheltered that we're desensitized from ourselves. of course, having an eating disorder won't help it.

[Vision Thing]

Yeah....but its sort of like you get used to it so much you dont need help. You just kind of accept it as the way you are.

Thanks cksummer, the problem is I used to be very passionate about trampolining as a sport, and then I fractured my spine so its something I can't do anymore. And I'm right at the end of school now so a lot of friends are moving on and its so hard to concentrate with school stuff

That's a good way to put it skylines :)
I do think it has a lot to do with so much less challenges. Like we live in a world of opportunity.....but there's so much opportunity that everything is a bit less special and not worth fighting for

[icicle]

I've had it. A lot.
I think it's another stage of depression.

[Jacklinger]

Well, I'm going to say this though it will likely be unpopular: prolonged starvation can cause the symptoms being described here. But I have known some people who say they feel this way and did not have an ED.

[Vision Thing]

Perhaps depression, who knows.

And I think it would be very arrogant to claim that I have an ED. I don't think that I do because I do not often starve myself nor purge, I just hold a little bit of a different idea about food to most. And yet I can relate to a lot of the emotions on this site? Hmmm.

[saryndipitous]

I can definitely relate. And I would say in my case that it was these feelings (or rather, lack of them) that caused my ED, rather than the other way around.

Currently, I alternate between sad and numb.

[choco.lover]

I feel like that too. Its like I halfway think life is worth the battle and halfway think I just don't want to exist anymore...

[JustDance]

This is exactly how I feel. I used to be very suicidal but now I just don't care. I hope every time I am in the car that someone will crash into me and kill me but I won't try to kill myself anymore. Nothing is good but nothing is really bad either but for some reason it is just not okay.

[giftedheart]

DEATH DRIVE:
In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive ("Todestrieb") is the drive towards death, destruction and forgetfulness. It was first proposed by Sigmund Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The death drive opposes Eros, the tendency towards cohesion and unity. The death drive is sometimes referred to as "Thanatos" in post-Freudian thought, complementing "Eros", although this term has no basis in Freud's own work, being rather introduced by Freud's secretary, Paul Federn.
Hope this answers your question.

[Vision Thing]

DEATH DRIVE:
In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive ("Todestrieb") is the drive towards death, destruction and forgetfulness. It was first proposed by Sigmund Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The death drive opposes Eros, the tendency towards cohesion and unity. The death drive is sometimes referred to as "Thanatos" in post-Freudian thought, complementing "Eros", although this term has no basis in Freud's own work, being rather introduced by Freud's secretary, Paul Federn.
Hope this answers your question.


Hey way to bring up the works of a mysogynist to a woman. Just because he is famous does not make him the sole psychologist in the world.

And if you had read what I posted you would have noted me saying "neither would you seek out death". As in, there would be no 'drive' towards wishing to kill yourself.

[giftedheart]

It was not my intention to offend. Just offering up a potential definition to the question . I do not imply that it is the correct answer and certainly recognize there are multiple possible answers. Death drive theory merely involves the desire to die without direct personal involvement. There are several other potentially related themed theory's available by a vast array of psychologist from their own perspective views. Find one that best suits your own ideology and consider the others as merely collaborative psycho-babble and fodder.

[Kashigolean]

i think you might be describing Dysthymia. its what i have been diagnosed with and im sure its pretty popular amongst people with eating disorders. its basically chronic depression. you should look it up