Apathy to most things.

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I used to be very creative. I enjoyed drawing things, writing, and imagining things. I loved video games back in the day. I'm currently finding myself enjoy things less and less as I grow older. When a new opportunity to try new things presents itself, I find myself not really caring despite even trying. I find myself to this current day cooped up in my apartment, and pretty much squandering my time. It has gone on for years.

Has anyone else fell in this crack, and if so, solved the problem I would like to get my bearings because, I feel bad for not really caring about much, but prefer to be in my ignorant bliss.

Feel free to ask me to elaborate on a few details.

Hi, Xennyk.
I've kind of lost interest in things, too. But in my case, I know the reasons.
After a 20+ year marrage, I went through a divorce that dragged on for five years. That pretty much killed everything, and I've forgotten how to laugh. I really couldn't maintain friendships during that period, and now I don't know how to get them back or find new ones. I'm still picking up the pieces.
Also, I'm broke. When I was a kid, we could hang out and not spend a lot of money. That doesn't work when you're middle-aged. I suppose old friends can hang together, but they've all drifted away.

Another problem is "Autistic Burnout." As far as I know, the shrinks haven't acknowledged it yet, but people talk about it a lot around here. I did a quick search and found http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt122215.html, and there's a bunch of other threads.

A burnout sounds like it makes sense. I used to be obsessed with shows I enjoyed. Then I met someone who took advantage of that obsession. I hadn't realized it, but I crashed and burned really hard. I'm slowly trying to pull myself back to my enjoyment in simple shows. Currently Doctor who is what I'm trying to get into because I'm obsessed with the idea in general but I think I'm not interested because deep inside I fear the same thing to happen. Most else, I'm doing just fine.

Trying to get into a committed job pattern is really hard. I find myself not really caring when I volunteer and just want to go home and do nothing. Volunteering is my doorway to getting a job, yet i just regard it as something inferior. I feel bad, but I'd rather do nothing because I'm comfortable doing nothing. I'm currently on social assistance, and I want to break that barrier.

Apathy I believe is a very internal problem and not something anyone else can easily help with. And really it is not something that should be up to someone else.

It is good though, that you are recognizing the problem and searching for solutions. You have to decide which side of the law you are going to be on: the object in motion that tends to stay in motion or the object at rest that tends to stay at rest.

Ugh. I loved to read. Over a hundred books a year. But I haven't actually finished one since July. I really want to but I can't

Another recurring theme around here is special interests/obsessions/passions, and how they tend to go in cycles, some say about two years. Once it's run its course, you need to move on and get a new one. You will probably always love the memory of that passion and keep the paraphernalia forever, but it can no longer take over your whole life as it did, and probably never will.