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heliocopters
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04 Apr 2010, 9:56 am

I HAVE NO SPECIAL INTEREST AT THE MOMENT AND IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS. Sorry about the all caps. I've just been frustrated for some time now. It feels like my brain has no gravity--all of my thoughts, deep or shallow, just spin around together and get all mushed up and everything is going in a million directions and I have no idea what is going on. I need something to focus on, but nothing has sparked my interest. The only thing that's keeping me from trying to scale every wall on my campus is a friend I have parasitically attached myself to and letting him basically be my interest. Has this ever happened to you? How do you get back on thinking like how we're meant to? I can't ever stop thinking--but if I keep thinking like a sugar high 5 year-old with ADHD, I'm going to go completely insane. It's also starting to make me really depressed because my mind feels useless.


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04 Apr 2010, 10:08 am

heliocopters wrote:
The only thing that's keeping me from trying to scale every wall on my campus is a friend I have parasitically attached myself to and letting him basically be my interest.


Follow that instinct and place your focus on people. Not as a parasite, but in looking for ways to be helpful. I know virtually nothing about life on a college campus, but people have all sorts of needs wherever they are, and trying to help meet them is the only thing that has now kept me going for many years after my past "all about me" approach to life had nearly killed me.


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04 Apr 2010, 10:14 am

Your interest will come back. I went through a long phase last year of having no interest... My mind too was all over the place, I couldn't focus and I was depressed because I had nothing to focus on. I now can't stop talking about Phantom of the Opera and it's driving everyone mad.... Ahh the good old days are back!


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04 Apr 2010, 11:23 am

i understand how you must be feeling as i hate it when that happens to me. i need to be into something at all times in order not to feel restless. however, the more you try to find that thing the harder it seems to actually find it. try not think about it for a couple of days and it might just come to you naturally. when i have nothing to occupy myself with, i'd read. Pick a good book and it may give you some inspiration.