To be utterly bored by life...

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Hi all, just hoping to get some advice and see whether my situation is at all 'normal' or whether i should be seeking professional help...

I am mid-20s and already i am utterly and completely bored and fed up of life. Nothing is interesting, and it isnt just covid as i felt like this before hand.

Work is boring, being home is boring, seeing friends is boring, my hobbies are boring, even holidays are boring...everything is just boring!! I feel like every day i just wake up, kill time and watch the clock, fall asleep and repeat. I cant find anything that is engaging, my attention span is naff.

I wasnt like this as a child at all...i could spend hours lost in a book or faffing about at the stables and now i just dont care. What on earth has happened?

Is this just life?? Are my expectations too high? Honestly i despair at the thought of another 60 odd years of this cycle and i don't want to do it id rather not be here at all.

Please help :(

Might you be depressed?

OP are you me? Except I'm 41 with 2 dc. Not sure if that's a comfort or not!

When I had depression this was exactly how I felt. Please go & get help. Your life will get better

Depression and the general mundanity of life tend to do this to me as well sometimes. I'd recommend heading to the GP though as a first step. x

Antidepressants stopped me feeling like this. Sertraline is brilliant.

Thanks for the replies...I have thought it might be depression related so im not surprised by your answers :( Will ring GP in the morning and go from there. Fingers crossed it will get better!

You sound depressed

Do you feel like you're using all your potential and energy? Are you stretched mentally? Do you have challenges you want to meet and overcome? Goals that really drive you?

Good luck with your gp. I felt this way when I suffered post natal depression. Could never find joy in anything, couldn't wait for the day to be over so I could go to sleep

Are you getting enough sleep?
I'm reading a book about sleep atm and I'm just at a chapter that describes these sorts of feelings when the person isn't getting adequate sleep.
It's a very interesting read, hadn't realised how much sleep affects so much of our health, physical and mental.

Wow this is so scarily like a thread of my own I posted a while back. I feel exactly the same OP and I'm mid 20s too. I'm sorry I don't have any advice for you (or I would take it myself!) but just wanted you to know you're definitely not alone

I felt like this at one point in my twenties. I realised I wasn’t fulfilled in my job or happy in my relationship. I made a lot of changes and eventually I was excited by life again. Could it be that you need to make some changes in your career, home life etc?

Can you start riding again? I felt like this, just latching on to your mention of spending hours at the stables - I rode as a teen and had not done it for about 10 years - life was a perpetual dull treadmill - so I started riding again and got a horse, and have never been happier!

You do sound low. Try doing an online depression test. Hope your GP is helpful.