I can only start working in October. I do volunteer. Follow the stock market. Go for walks. Do shopping & groceries. Read the news. Browse this forum. Chat on the phone. Drink coffee. Shower. Study Spanish.
I try to keep me occupied but still I get bored.
Do you get bored?
Yep I get bored my little town is nice for some things but not really for entertainment.
I have the membership to the gym but it would be nice if I had friends at the gym. Unfortauntely the regulars for swimming are either the swim team kids, or the very very elderly. Not really a 20-30 age bracket there besides very odd hour folks I don’t get to swim with much.
Yeah, I get bored. I try to keep myself occupied, but most days, I have trouble focusing.
Like right now… I’m working on my crochet blanket, but I can only do it for a minute… then I take a break… then I work on it for a minute more.
So, it’s like I’m trying to get rid of the boredom by doing something enjoyable, but I have a hard time focusing on something enjoyable. Sooo… I just get stuck.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… I think that boredom is a good sign !
My mind is a bit turbulent and so I rarely get bored.
Maybe I should get a dog. I used to have one and life is never boring with a companion.
But I do live in an apartment right now. So I’m worried about that.
I hope you can make friends at the gym.
Your crochet work looks impressive. I wish I could buy one of your hats.
Dogs are good, but the human connection is really what I’m lacking right now.
I get to cuddle and love the dogs and that’s been enriching but I just wanna have friends again.
I’m pretty lonely these days although the dogs help.
Very true. If I were floridly psychotic, I wouldn’t be bored.
It’s sometimes hard to socialize with sz. I get that too.
I tend to chat on this forum, talk to family and make loads of phone calls. That’s my strategy.
OMG, thank you. 
You are so nice.
If I ever do sell some stuff, I probably won’t link it to the forum, to keep anonymity. But I’m flattered that you like the hats!
Adventure masterbation and deficating
I get bored most of my day because of anhedonia, but it’s not 100%, I’d say I’m 10% pleasure and 90% bored, but sometimes I’m 100% bored. 10% pleasure and distraction is very little, but it’s enough to make me feel like time has passed quickly
What helps me in the 10% are conversations with my therapist (I like her), music, Counter Strike (game), funny videos, walking outside, reading all the threads on this forum and talking to all of you here on this forum, I like all of you on here
My pdoc is my therapist. I see her every 6 weeks.
How often do you see your therapist?
very interesting, my pdoc is not a therapist but tries to advise me. I see my therapist weekly
Most of the time I am ruminating about my condition or things that have happened to me in the past that I feel are unfair. I don’t know if that is boredom or not.
I will say it this way I can manage my life. I live independently do my groceries, the laundry, the dishes by myself. I prepare my own meals. I visit the healt clinic every 3 week for depo and have done so the last 15 years. I take my pills without supervision. I like music. I like watching t.v. I manage my money by myself.
Sometimes, but not too bad. I’ve been consuming a lot of sugar, which keeps my mood up, but it is terrible for my health. I have a good ability to keep myself entertained just living inside my head, but there are times when I get depressed. I’ve discovered that boredom is so much easier to endure if you are physically comfortable. In the army, when we had to stay in one position for a long time it could get tedious. One time when I was in the army in Germany we stopped where there were huge clouds of gnats, far worse than anything I had ever seen. It was maddening, but this guy found out that if we took the repair material for our radar nets out of its bag and put some of the material under the front of our helmets so that it hung down over our face it took care of the gnat problem perfectly. Soldiers learn things like that when they’ve been in the field. They were having terrible problems with trench foot in World War I. Soldiers lost their feet to it. Then they discovered if they took their boots off every four hours and rubbed their feet with cooking oil it took care of the trench foot. But I’ve heard that boredom can be terrible in war. A few guys who had been to Vietnam described it as 80% sheer boredom and 20% stark terror. I gathered that there were a lot of different situations in war, and the experience one group of soldiers had could be totally different from the experience soldiers two miles away might have.
Boredom inspires me to work at my art. I also live independently. I do my own dishes and rarely clean anything else. I learned some simple one person meals, etc., etc. By the way, I slept a full 8 hours last night! I’m looking forward to reading ANNA KARENINA today! The most important thing I can do though is exercise and clean my apartment.
My psychosis has not been enjoyable in a long time. I think that was mania.