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These are correct. I would like to add that your life may be boring and unimportant. You're brain (my brain as well) is correctly calibrated on a evolutionary t

These are correct. I would like to add that your life may be boring and unimportant. You're brain (my brain as well) is correctly calibrated on a evolutionary timescale and so most of life's tasks are just not important enough to care about. It's only when fear of serious consequences ramps past as certain threshold that we act. You probably have plenty of food and shelter. (If that's not the case stop reading and seek professional help, if basic needs stop being motivating you're sick) So what to do? Get a new job, for a while it will feel important. Accept that you may need to change jobs regularly. Get a job that matters. Life and death matters. Go be an EMT. Live somewhere where basic needs are not a given. Help make that place better. Try an SSRI or meth derivative, if for no other reason to kill the idea that a pill can solve your problems. (Tried both, not worth it.) I've also heard starting judo or other violent contact hobby helps, no idea why. Edit: corrected initialism

jsmthrowaway 11y ago
Please don't become an EMT because you are depressed and feel that your work doesn't matter. This will likely exacerbate the problem given the nature of the work and is bad advice. That's like wanting to be President to get the nuclear launch codes; it's the wrong reason to want it and is not the kind of thing you really want anyway. You know how when you try acid you need to be in a good frame of mind? Choosing the discipline that involves being present for and tirelessly, mostly-unsuccessfully fighting against routine death is similar. I've learned to keep shop talk to a minimum with those in my family who drive ambulances despite their tales putting my complaints about work into perspective. That's not a livelihood to approach lightly. Not trying to talk anybody out of it because I respect first responders immensely; just want it for the right reason, to help who you can, not to 'fix' yourself. (I can't see that working and people wash out of that work all the time.)
redka 11y ago
If all of these things only work for a while or not a all then perhaps there is nothing that will match the expectations of importance. Maybe one could figure out the reason for those expectations.

jsmthrowaway 11y ago

Please don't become an EMT because you are depressed and feel that your work doesn't matter. This will likely exacerbate the problem given the nature of the work and is bad advice. That's like wanting to be President to get the nuclear launch codes; it's the wrong reason to want it and is not the kind of thing you really want anyway. You know how when you try acid you need to be in a good frame of mind? Choosing the discipline that involves being present for and tirelessly, mostly-unsuccessfully fighting against routine death is similar. I've learned to keep shop talk to a minimum with those in my family who drive ambulances despite their tales putting my complaints about work into perspective. That's not a livelihood to approach lightly. Not trying to talk anybody out of it because I respect first responders immensely; just want it for the right reason, to help who you can, not to 'fix' yourself. (I can't see that working and people wash out of that work all the time.)

redka 11y ago

If all of these things only work for a while or not a all then perhaps there is nothing that will match the expectations of importance. Maybe one could figure out the reason for those expectations.