Has anyone just been feeling numb to everything lately?

[Anonymous]

I used to feel so much excitement for things. I would hear music and get such an emotional feeling from it, and now I just don’t get it with anything. Am I just getting older, or is it overstimulation? Is it just brain rot from social media content? Does life just suck now? I really just have no idea.

[Shiprex]

Numbness like this could be down to what others have said about mental illness and social media over stimulation. That being said there is a lot of doom and gloom around for everyone to accept and accommodate.

The climate crisis, the flip to the populist political agenda, the rampant control over everything by oligarchs taking control of nations without accountability and a bunch of other sucky things around conflict between the sexes and the perpetual victimhood everyone who is anyone wants to wave. Yeah we're turning inward and making ourselves feel worse though social media has the power to perhaps alleviate some of that but won't because a stressed workforce is one less likely to cause the ruling classes to worry about their privileges.

[Asker]

Maybe this kind of goes with overstimulation but I wonder, can you just push yourself too far? Like nothing is shocking anymore, nothing surprises me, almost nothing seems impressive.

Nothing inspires and I just miss when there were things that did.

[Shiprex]

The answer is to SEEK to find something that inspires and TRY to see the best and beauty in things. It's a fukd up world atm and the media is feeding that notion for everyone to keep their heads down and stfu while the ruling classes take everything and rape and pillage the planet.
However people are still pretty good at heart

[just_a_potato]

Kinda sounds like depression buddy. I've felt that way for bouts at a time for the past 10 years of my life or so. If this is new, your body might just be asking you to change something about your life. Maybe do an activity that makes you feel like you're apart of something bigger than yourself. That's really hard to come by these days (with the actual reward of feeling accomplished, anyway). I hope things get better for you soon! ❤️❤️❤️

[Account]

Yes. I don't even know what is wrong with me anymore.

[Nikki1989]

Sounds like mental illness, buddy. Better get that checked out.

[princeofromance]

Listen to the song Numb by Linkin Park.

[Asker]

I listened to that song 20 years ago. You know it hit me one day, why would I continue to listen to things that just reinforce negativity?

[princeofromance]

That is an awesome song. It tells it like it is.