Apathetic

[FullyAlive]

I've stopped caring. Its happened gradually over about the space of a week things that would normally get to me didn't, just small things nothing substantial I just thought I was maturing :P

But yesterday I just stopped caring about my exams, i'm not bothered even a little bit this is really unusual for me. And today I've being getting more and more emotionally distant it didn't bother me to start with. Then this evening I had a couple of erm shocks which I guess I felt at the time. But now I just don't i'm really apathetic. I'm not sad or lonely just detached I feel like i'm in a bubble and nothing can penetrate it.

I'm wondering if maybe this is a coping mechanism, I've been stressed and worried recently, I've had exams, friendship issues, family health problems, personal health problems and maybe it was all getting too much for me so my mind did this?

I just find it uncomfortable I don't really like this attitude this I don't care thing. I'm used to feeling too much as oppose to too little.
I guess i'm asking whether or not you'd agree its a coping mechanism and how temporary you think it is, and how I can get rid of it easier?

[Anselmo]

i've already experienced that situation. It might be a coping mechanism, due to pressure i started thinking that resting one day would not make drifrence, but i was wrong. I started resting every day.
I get out of this situation by learning with my own mistakes.
My school grades started to get lower and lower. I thought i could recover easily... but i was wrong and now i have to work very hard to compensate for the former years.


Even if you don't care, keep doing it, insist no matter how hard it is and how many less boring stuff you could be doing instead, beause you only get rid of it after you realise it's too late.

You have no idea how i regret the time i lost doing nothing...i wish i could go back in time to tell myself this.

[christcenteredlife]

luckily, if you're writing this, you still care. apathy is a tough thing to truly have. not caring, is actually caring. it's effecting you in some way, which means you aren't apathetic to it. apathy is having NO EMOTION at all toward someone or something.

but anyway, i'm sorry you are feeling how you are. this typically happens with depression and trauma. it also happens when something constantly bores you. for me, school is terrible! i was skipped grades, so i'm the youngest and smallest in ALL my classes, which caused similar emotions for me. basically, i didn't care.

hope this somewhat helped?

good luck.

[Karynn]

I've stopped caring. Its happened gradually over about the space of a week things that would normally get to me didn't, just small things nothing substantial I just thought I was maturing :P (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41946&page=2)

But yesterday I just stopped caring about my exams, i'm not bothered even a little bit this is really unusual for me. And today I've being getting more and more emotionally distant it didn't bother me to start with. Then this evening I had a couple of erm shocks which I guess I felt at the time. But now I just don't i'm really apathetic. I'm not sad or lonely just detached I feel like i'm in a bubble and nothing can penetrate it.

I'm wondering if maybe this is a coping mechanism, I've been stressed and worried recently, I've had exams, friendship issues, family health problems, personal health problems and maybe it was all getting too much for me so my mind did this?

I just find it uncomfortable I don't really like this attitude this I don't care thing. I'm used to feeling too much as oppose to too little.
I guess i'm asking whether or not you'd agree its a coping mechanism and how temporary you think it is, and how I can get rid of it easier?

YOu would not post this if you really were uncaring. A coping mechanism or a defence mechanism maybe ? have you been through anything triggering lately ?

[Borxar]

Yes, it is a coping mechanism. You detach yourself from the feelings and problems associated with them as a way to kind of pretend they dont exist, so you dont have to deal with the pain from it. Take some time to be still and reflect on whats going on to help you feel it and try to feel love, because in showing love you can feel sorrow for another person. Tell yourself you can get through the pain and give yourself motivation to get through the mundane things that seem unimportant at the time. Hope this helps!