Is emotional mediocrity a symptom of depression?

[Dominus]

Sometimes, don't you feel like life is so boring? Nothing exciting ever happens.

I've been existing in a state of emotional gray area for quite some time now. I don't feel sad, happy, or anything else. Everything is just a blur. Not looking forward to anything. Nothing seems to matter.

Does this sound like depression?

 

[Alistair]

Yes. That sounds like depression but you might want to get a checkup to make sure you’re all ok with thyroid and everything

 

[Vannie]

Yes

2 cents

Life is wonderous if your mind and body are working well.

Dr.Vannie recommends a full physical and full body work up with blood test to rule out anything going on bodily.

We all go through down times for various reasons but dont let it go on to long.

Best wishes

 

[cityboy-stl]

Sometimes, don't you feel like life is so boring? Nothing exciting ever happens.

I've been existing in a state of emotional gray area for quite some time now. I don't feel sad, happy, or anything else. Everything is just a blur. Not looking forward to anything. Nothing seems to matter.

Does this sound like depression?

I think a lot of people feel like that now, and much of it is rooted in two years of covid isolation. Every day is Ground Hog Day.

 

[rareboy]

^ Covid has not helped and neither does the constant barrage of doom news.

It is hard to become enthused about much of anything these days...but there is spring coming and for me that will mean being back out and in the garden and planting things and basically pulling my head out the ass-cave it has been hibernating in for a long winter's spell.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Sometimes, don't you feel like life is so boring? Nothing exciting ever happens.

I've been existing in a state of emotional gray area for quite some time now. I don't feel sad, happy, or anything else. Everything is just a blur. Not looking forward to anything. Nothing seems to matter.

Does this sound like depression?

It sounds more like boredom to me, and as G-Lexington's father used to say, when you're bored it's your fault... or you're really depressed and need therapy and/or psychopharmaca.

 

[m1thousand]

I think you have Anhedonia.

Anhedonia is the inability to feel pleasure. It's a common symptom of depression as well as other mental health disorders. Most people understand what pleasure feels like. They expect certain things in life to make them happy.
https://www.google.com/search?q=anh...2j0i512l8.27940j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[rareboy]

 

[nycguydowntown]

I think you are conflicted on what to focus on-- cock or career. The struggle is real for some of us.

 

[rareboy]

My own take is that with a marital break-up and the stresses of trying to save your rental empire....you just have hit the point where you might be emotionally exhausted and clinically depressed.

At this moment, you have to be asking yourself what is the end goal to all of this? Is it about the challenge and the thrill of the game as a property magnate?

Or is it still a chase for money in order to build yourself a fortress against material insecurity and poverty.

You may be finding that it all isn't as meaningful without a partner to help build the company and share the ups and downs with you.

It is a perfect time to re-assess. And maybe look into getting some counselling support as well as a thorough medical check-out.

The stress of business and a recession, combined with deaths of friends and family wore me out in the mid 2000's and it took my family doctor to help me understand what the neuro-chemical response was doing to me.

As you know I am older than you, with a 40 year relationship, so my flattened emotional life is the result of having no more financial or professional stresses, contented life with my partner and sadly, a shrinking field of family and friends and events that bring real joy or pain. Even death is an old friend now and I understand why as people age it is less and less of an emotional crisis as long as it is people your own age or older.

But every once in awhile, with the younger generations of the family or with a few good friends, it is still possible to laugh until we hurt or cry because of profound grief....both good reminders that we are emotionally alive.

 

[Kahaih]

Sometimes, don't you feel like life is so boring? Nothing exciting ever happens.

I've been existing in a state of emotional gray area for quite some time now. I don't feel sad, happy, or anything else. Everything is just a blur. Not looking forward to anything. Nothing seems to matter.

Does this sound like depression?

It's not depression, it's fear.

You are obsessed with finding approval from other people. You can't even let yourself feel an emotion without having someone else tell you you're doing it right.

And you're not alone. Many people can't even enjoy a candy bar without having someone tell them it's the right thing to do.

It's quite likely that you have exhausted most of the people in your life with your constant need for this approval from others. You are 'high maintenance'. LOL Stop that.

Therapy, dear. Not to be told what to do. Not to be controlled. You need to learn to accept yourself and your own decisions. You need to learn how to be happy with yourself- how to be ok with knowing that you are doing the best you can. And, most of all, how to recognize and accept your own emotions.