How do I cope with my boredom?

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I am chronically bored. I don’t know what to do with it or with myself. My AP is reducing the voices, my anti-depressant is calming me down, and I am just… existing. I have so much school work to do, so many responsibilities that I must attend to, but I can’t seem to motivate myself to touch any of that stuff, even though I have to, AND it would give me something to do. But all I feel like doing is sleeping and self-harming.

How do I cope with my boredom? What are your strategies that you have to help yourself deal with this boredom?

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Find something euphoric like exercise games books TV movies friends go out places drink alcohol listen to music and have naps anything that can kill a few hours of your day what I done was go back to work experience the amount of stress for a few months then quit and you’ll be so happy having nothing to do it wouldn’t matter

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Interesting. I’m not a doctor but those are also signs that you are depressed from what I remember from the symptoms. So maybe you should be looking to see if you can handle depression.

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I suffer from the same thing, some call it anhedonia, the inability to experience pleasure from daily activities…Not much can be done about it unfortunetely…I was suffering from it before getting on my antipsychotic so I know it’s not my medication that’s causing it

Anhedonia is a classic negative symptom of sz…

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I try to listen to tv or music but it feels like I’m watching a wall (i.e. I dont find anything interesting) and listening to noise instead of music…It’s very frustrating not being able to feel… I guess I have to keep trying

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Sometimes I have no pleasure in playing GTA V. I thought it was anhedonia but maybe I’m tired of video games.

Physical exercises can give you some pleasure. Maybe you can go to the gym. Meeting friends is also very important.

And positivity. Have a lot of positivity.

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A long time ago I was determined to solve this. I made a small box with ideas of activities I could do.
Sitting outside with a tea, sweeping, drawing, watch a show, call my mom… I would draw out peices of paper til I could find something I’d do.
It worked for a few days. But I lost motivation to keep using it. Helps some people though

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