I don't get the boredom thing like you and it must be very frustrating to have that. I do change what I like to do or like as if a channel was changed. Example: I'll read twenty mystery novels and then I switch and can't even look at a mystery novel. I'd be doing something else then the channel gets changed again.

YES YES YES classic BPD! A chronic feeling of emptiness and meaningless to everything you do... hate it...

hav not found a cure yet but if you do first let me know x

I am so strange.. i have a million things to do, and I get em done, and am still bored out of my gourd mentally. Then I have to find a mental topic to daydream about. Maybe that'll help? Just make sure they're not super depressing thought. I don't really have the depression problem, but definitely feel empty. Like everyones this big friggin' happy family and I'm a little lost black sheep. lol not sure if i'm borderline tho.

can completly relate to this. ii find i want 2 do something get really motivated then either cant be bothered or it bores me and just dont want do it any more!

boredom is something like running out of energy to finish a paticular task. when i am at work what is boring to me is when the kids are taking their nap. I have to keep working. if someone does my job i am totally lost, what do I do. when stress happens I feel like I should be doing something but do not have energy to do it than I feel real bored and guilty. what the heck, right? I chew on my mouth and that really is bad. I buy lots of gum. I get bored having to deal with the same issues over and over again. My own kids and their teenage attitudes. jeeeeese, teenage hormones.

I know what you mean. Idle time is my worst enemy. For me, it can be very dangerous. Very bad things have come of it in the past.

If I'm busy, I'm usually okay, and since my last hospital stay and being on a good combination of meds, this problem has greatly improved. Now, I can usually sit here and keep myself reading or find something interesting on tv and be okay. Before, I never used to watch television. I called it poison for my brain. Now, I have a few select shows I watch, and it helps to pass the time.

Boredom is a problem for A LOT of people with mental illness. It's always good for us to keep busy and keep our minds occupied with something positive. In your case, though, I'm not sure what to tell you. I wish I had the answers. Best wishes!

I get bored really easy, too. I have so much I should be doing but don't have the motivation to do anything.

Boredom is prob as when bored do crazy stuff NO I MEAN CRAZZEE STUFF. So try to fill my life all the time.

I get bored like that too, even when i'm in the middle of doing something, everything gets grey, when I get bored I shut down, don't want to talk to anyone, don't want to listen, I can be watching tv or something and looking directly at it but if you asked me what's happening in the show I couldn't tell you, it's like my mind is off somewhere else but my eyes are fixed on something but not really taking it in.

YES. And it is a truly awful awful awful feeling. I'm bored of myself, bored inside. It really hurts and I can totally relate. I find that I am most engaged and not bored when I'm talking or writing about how I am feeling. Must be all those years of keeping feelings stuffed.

Boredom is very dangerous for me. Mind finds stuff to do. Buying, drinking, carousing, arguing. Try to fill every unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. It's a needs must situation.

I experience boredom while in the middle of something too, so bad that I have to get up and walk around.

Maggie

Casey, you have just described me! Although when I get bored like that, that's usually when I self harmed. Trying desperately to break that habit now, went to rehab and everything. Dunno any cure yet...

I can relate too. I used to be on disability benefits, and just be home all day bored me so badly that it drove me to serious depression, eventually I was hospitilised.

I saw a great therapist, and she helped me look for a small job. My confidence was so low and my life so unstable that I had trouble believing I could down a job, because Ive never been able to.

I tried so hard and managed to work part time for a year and a half before working full time. The difference to my life is amazing. Without the boredom, I have some self believe, I know i can handle hard times, and i can build a life for myself. I've never had that type of depression since.

I do get bored quickly though, even if im doing something i enjoy. I always try and give myself something to look forward to and enjoy the moment