I really worry that nothing could be wrong with me. Unlike most people, I don’t experience typical signs of depression. I don’t feel inferior to others or feel sad all day. I just feel like there is no point to life, and therefore, I want to end it because I am going to die sooner or later, and nothing I accomplish has any inherent value. I have a generally negative outlook on life, but I also believe I am more aware of global issues than my family. My stepfather is a hotheaded, homophobic racist. My mother is quite the average see-what-I-want-to-see Christian. She’s wearing rose-tinted glasses and drinking from her glass that’s half full. I can’t have a satisfying conversation with anyone, because almost everyone where I live seems the same. They all have similar ideas that are drastically different from mine. They look at the simple things in life and that makes them happy. I have a habit to mentally delve into a topic or ruminate, and it loses all of its pleasure. I will often think about what happiness is, how it is composed of matter, what matter may be, and so on, until I conclude that life is actually devoid of emotions, that we are really just puppets or robots. I feel like I’m being forced to live.
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Maybe you need to be surrounded by people more of your potential and beliefs? Just a thought, I never really know what i’m talking about. Have you thought of just having a lack of emotion? I think our ideas on things are similar. If you want a new friend you can email me ^_^ avieavielove@gmail.com
You very well described what you feel – I feel the same way. Life seems pretty boring and pointless. I have very minimized amount of emotions and feel flat all the time. Let’s add up that I feel like robot all the time. I don’t talk much with people because they seem so boring. Has your doctor, if you have one, considered not depression but derealization with depersonalization? I can’t say much but symptoms you described are a mirror of my symptoms. If you take meds with wrong diagnosis they may not help but delve you further into this thinking.
WOW! You said it for me, and Koralik has something … I have Borderline Personality Disorder, which has de-realization and de-personalization symptoms … not to mention suicidal feelings, which is why I’m on this website. I don’t take any meds for this condition because Australia has a therapy first approach – not that there is any point in the therapy, is there? Therapy teaches us how to get on with our lives but little else … see, I have your symptoms too.