Posted by Penny on June 27, 2003, at 15:21:39
In reply to How to stave off boredom?, posted by yesac on June 27, 2003, at 14:02:02
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do? I've gotten back into crocheting which allows me to be able to handle watching tv sometimes. Reading is a problem - don't seem to have the focus and attention span to read for much more than 20 minutes or so, hence it seems to take me weeks to get through a single book, if I ever even get through it. This is really disturbing to me as I used to be an avid reader and there are many books that I think I would like to read. I ordered Harry Potter the other day, maybe that will save me. I just don't enjoy most activities much. The more I think about it, I've been so bored for years really. But I just seem to have a lot more time now (not being in school, etc). I almost would say that I dread the weekends. I am going home next week for a week, so hopefully it will alleviate some of my boredom for a short time, to be with my family and beloved kitty! Whereas here, I am more or less all alone. Jeez, it really sucks. It brings me down a lot to be so bored, but I don't know what to do.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).
Sorry if you've been over all of this before, but as I'm just returning to the board, I'm not familiar with your story!
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.
Oh - and the newest Harry Potter is awesome!!!
Sorry I'm not much help.
Penny
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