This is tentatively offered, but it seems to me that you’re suffering from either the lack of novelty or the lack of perception of novelty.
Is there anything new you could add to your life? New activities (preferably as different as possible from what you usually do) and/or new surroundings?
You could be up against something physiological, in which case self-experimentation might be your best bet.
However, I’m also wondering whether you’re doing some sort of fast mental checking to see whether experiences are good enough to enjoy, and the experiences mostly fall short. In that case, it might also help to deliberately pay more attention to current experience.
Okay, very good point there. You do bring up good questions that I should continually ask myself, and I remind myself of them once I see an opportunity to change my own experiences. Unfortunately, it’s difficult for me to change (right now) since I’m in my last year of college and I need to put in the time so that I can get the GPA boost that it could offer to me (and also that I’m still dependent on parents).
I’m assuming that you’re of typical final-year age. You already know what I’m going to say: the last 7 months might have felt like years, but when you’re a bit older you’ll be able to look back and see the whole thing from a perspective in which it doesn’t dominate your life.
Make sure that you allocate some of your free time to activities away from the computer, especially outdoors and social ones!
A big change doesn’t sound feasible, but you might see if you can pry loose a few hours a week for something new.
One of my friends told me that meds can help with situational depression (which it sounds like you’ve got), so you might want to check on that, instead of just going with “meds don’t help mild-to-moderate depression”.
One of my friends told me that meds can help with situational depression (which it sounds like you’ve got), so you might want to check on that, instead of just going with “meds don’t help mild-to-moderate depression”
InquilineKea wrote off ssri’s because they don’t seem to do much for mild-to-moderate depression in general. If my friend is correct that the drugs can be good for mil-to-moderate depression that has a situational cause, even if the drugs don’t reliably do anything for such depression that seems to happen for no particular reason, then the drugs should at least be investigated further.
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear. I understood what you meant, but was interested in what evidence you had and whether you had a theory as to why that would happen. If anything, I would have guessed they’d work in non-situational cases and not situational ones.
This is tentatively offered, but it seems to me that you’re suffering from either the lack of novelty or the lack of perception of novelty.
Is there anything new you could add to your life? New activities (preferably as different as possible from what you usually do) and/or new surroundings?
You could be up against something physiological, in which case self-experimentation might be your best bet.
However, I’m also wondering whether you’re doing some sort of fast mental checking to see whether experiences are good enough to enjoy, and the experiences mostly fall short. In that case, it might also help to deliberately pay more attention to current experience.
Okay, very good point there. You do bring up good questions that I should continually ask myself, and I remind myself of them once I see an opportunity to change my own experiences. Unfortunately, it’s difficult for me to change (right now) since I’m in my last year of college and I need to put in the time so that I can get the GPA boost that it could offer to me (and also that I’m still dependent on parents).
I’m assuming that you’re of typical final-year age. You already know what I’m going to say: the last 7 months might have felt like years, but when you’re a bit older you’ll be able to look back and see the whole thing from a perspective in which it doesn’t dominate your life.
Make sure that you allocate some of your free time to activities away from the computer, especially outdoors and social ones!
A big change doesn’t sound feasible, but you might see if you can pry loose a few hours a week for something new.
One of my friends told me that meds can help with situational depression (which it sounds like you’ve got), so you might want to check on that, instead of just going with “meds don’t help mild-to-moderate depression”.
Can you expand on that?
InquilineKea wrote off ssri’s because they don’t seem to do much for mild-to-moderate depression in general. If my friend is correct that the drugs can be good for mil-to-moderate depression that has a situational cause, even if the drugs don’t reliably do anything for such depression that seems to happen for no particular reason, then the drugs should at least be investigated further.
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear. I understood what you meant, but was interested in what evidence you had and whether you had a theory as to why that would happen. If anything, I would have guessed they’d work in non-situational cases and not situational ones.
No problem. I can check with my friend for details after the weekend.