Always Insanely Bored.

well i do get bored easily and what makes it worse i dont sleep much, so im always trying to figure out things to do. usually at night is the worst cause there is nothing on tv (even though i dont watch tv lol) and also that everyone is pretty much asleep at that time. but in saying that, i dont have agoraphobia, so that must be very hard to live with. especially if you get bored very easily and constantly need to be doing things. dont you have any friends near you that can go out with you and take you places.. or a boyfriend?

...try doing some new stuff. If you like it, then you have a new hobby. If not, try something else.

i understand what you mean..I had those days in my life too..now I do anything to avoid it but do enjoy being by myself once in a while. All I did was make little changes step by step..and it does make difference. :) wish you luck and peace in mind.

If I don't mark the places I've been with a little pee, I'll never remember how to get back home.

For me, my agoraphobia (which is relatively mild) is about being around other people, particularly in crowded places. If yours is anything like mine, might I suggest going somewhere "out" where you will be alone? (or, if not alone, with another person with whom you are comfortable). If being out like that, exposed, is a problem, can you tolerate going for a ride in an unpopulated place?

You should go out, explore the world. I know agoraphobia holds you back from doing so, but you can't overcome a a fear without taking a first step, which is always the hardest. I'm sorry if I sound rude or anything, but you sound like you're wasting a lot of your time/life, which is something that you will regret five, ten, fifteen years down the line. You just gotta go out, meet new people, or if not, just explore nature, and discover the beautiful place that this life/world is. These are the greatest years of our life and we'll regret how much of our life we failed to truly live when we wake up one morning, old and grey, realizing how quickly life's passed us by. It seems like you crave fun, excitement, but right now you're basically just...existing. Not really living. We only have one life, and it's short, it passes us by quickly, we have to live it to the fullest. I know this sounds YOLO-ish and cliched, but it's true, and I've experienced it first-hand. I've known what it feels like to not ''put yourself out there'', not go out and do what you've always dreamed of doing, not take that extra chance, and then later introspect and regret. I know how content and fulfilled you feel when you take a chance to do something you've always wanted, even if it fails. Atleast when you look back, you're saying "Well, atleast I tried.", instead of "..It might have been".

I feel the same way, everyday I'm bored even though I try my best to think positive and find something mentally stimulating. But for some reason i always end up back to the same zonky feeling i get all the time and i cant seem to find a solution no matter what. I barely have friends and if i am hanging with a group of people i get extremely uncomfortable and dont say a word and if someone pressures me to talk i get embaressed, which is why i spend my time mostly alone, But i wish more than anything that i could just for once enjoy life.

I understand your boredom. One of my daughters is receiving help for depression. Which I suffer from due to life circumstances also. Her psychologist informed us that her boredom is part and parcel with depression. You sleep to avoid feeling thinking doing. So the solution is to keep active. Your boredom is based on what you are allowing yourself to do. Start simple.....find something that perks your that may be outside your box of what you would normally do. Put out of your mind internet TV and other devices that actually stunt your personal growth. .....Take a chance never know what you discover when you do.

I feel the same way too

I really feel ya... Some days very baddd thoughts come into my head, like suicidal thoughts :( and its purely from boredom and lonelyness. I'll find myself pacing around the house, sitting in silence just thinking bout bad memories, thinking about how boring my life is, thinking about how useless and unloved I feel, thinking about all the other productive things I COULD be doing, but just cannot find the motivation.anywhere. and as you said, I sleep most of the day away just so.I don't have to deal with an entire days of boredom. :( life is so depressing.

I really would like to respond, and would like to help, but don't want to be indiscreet. There are situations when boredom is quite natural. For instance, I am 90-year-old, live in a retirement home, and most people around me are bored-and I find them boring. I am handicapped, and fight depression, mostly successfully, but not always. I find that depression and boredom are twin sisters, moreover, siamese twins. You are so young! Perhaps you can get some treatment for your depression?

i hope you would fight your boredom soon.. you can do it

I totally know what your talking about. I use to have Agoraphobia and as bad as I was, I would start hyperventilating just stepping outside the door, trying to grab the mail. I have improved since then but I still don't like going out to crowded places..alone. One step at a time, I guess.

Yes, I do too think about things that NEED to be forgotten when I'm extremely bored. I still go to sleep half the day, just to pass time as well :D Why can't you plant something ? Your have something to do everyday. Maybe do some graphic designs based on what makes you feel happy ?? I don't know hahaha. Just trying to give you something to do ^_^

If you were hanging out with me, you will hardly be at home haha. That's what my life is like, hardly at home. I only go out because it's a stressful household, especially when you have a mother nagging at you all the time, over the most smallest things ever :/

You would love it here. Adventure is everywhere.

In a word epidemic. I can sooo relate its not even funny!

I know exactly what you mean, though it sounds like you have it even worse than me, especially with the agoraphobia on top of the rest. Most of the time I can distract myself by doing random, timewasting crap, it's only when I let myself think about my life that I start to feel like this.

That feeling that you want to do something interesting but can't force yourself to actually make it happen is the worst.

Date someone. Or if yur scared of all that, online date. All your boredom just flies away.. Concentrate on your studies or work etc.
Trust me, I started. And I was feeling the same way. Now there's no such thing as boredom. I'm busy all day.

Oh I do feel for you and hope your life changes around for the better,Good Luck,I am sending you some positive energy through thought.

It feels like you're going batshit insane, right? And you almost want to tear out your hair, even if just for something to do. >O.o< It kind of feels like the walls are closing in and I just need to get out and just... run. Be free. Sometimes I can't even get to sleep because of it, which is one reason why I sleep to after midday a lot. In those times, when I'm feeling like that, absolutely nothing can distract me as much as I might try. Not even reading. I spend all my time trying to distract myself and not let myself think about certain things, and then these days come along where no matter what I do, I can't seem to distract myself. 8/ It's when I just feel like I really, reeeally need something to DO, someone to talk to and somewhere to go. I would take anything as a distraction from my mind in those times too. I feel that way sometimes, though I used to feel it a lot more when I was in Kingston & Berri.

It's a little rarer now than it was before, thank goodness... I used to feel that way almost every day, but things have changed a bit, you know, especially with moving away from the Riverland and all. And I do get outdoors a little bit more than I used to now. Before I was inside my bedroom ALL THE TIME, but now I get out and alleviate some of that tension. I'll never go anywhere alone, but I do take my younger brother to the nearby park on occasion, or we might all go out for tea and sit by the river, or I go shopping with Mum, things like that. Those things are okay, because at least I'm getting out of the house even for a little while. But obviously it isn't enough, just doing those things. I still haven't got friends to spend time with or a licence or a job. I still haven't finished school. What I really need is to meet new people, find friends and experience the thrill and excitement of NEW THINGS. I need to have life experiences, I've missed out on so many already. I feel so starved for interesting conversation and company too, I don't even talk online very much. It's very rare that I even get to have a conversation with someone that isn't my brother at all, so, by the way, it was really rather nice chatting to you yesterday. =) We should chat more often, I miss it.

I am willing to try new things now. Well, I mean, I fight against my anxiety as much as I can and try to be brave, I am trying to get somewhere... I'm more motivated now, that's why I'm going back to school -- which was a big decision, you can imagine. I just decided one day that there is more to me than this, more out there for me, and I want more for myself. So while I'm still stuck in the middle, not quite moving forward, I'm trying to, I'm taking baby steps. 8) It's so hard though, I know. But that's really all you can do, keep going, keep fighting, keep trying.

:)...let me escort you,LaTy!haha..kidding^.^
How about drawing?? When I'm bore,that helps a lot! Draw your cats,dogs,furnitures! That's quite fun!^.^

Try learning to play an instrument. Be creative. :)

You will get there when you can get to a better place with the Agoraphobia. I guess you just have to take that extra step and just do, don't think about it, just do it. I know, it's harder than it sounds, but it's true.

I've been where you are, maybe not as bad, but I know what intense boredom feels like. I used to sleep for most of the day, stay rooted to the house and dream of doing the things that I wanted. I was so depressed that not even my boyfriend could shake me out of the rut that I was in. My parents then basically said I either work, go back to school or I see a therapist and possibly get sent to a psychiatric facility to get help.

The possibility of being sent to a psychiatric facility scared the living **** out of me. So, I took some time to get myself together and applied for school once again. Since then I've never looked back. My life has changed some, but there still is room for some major improvement.

I still have no friends to hang out with, I don't drive, I live with my parents and I'm unemployed, but I'm at least working towards something that will change my life for the better. Sure, it won't happen right away because nothing good comes easy, but it's better than doing nothing and dreaming about it.

Overall, what I'm trying to say is in order to make your dreams come true, you got to take a good look and ask yourself, " Is this what I really want for myself?" If not, then you got to make it happen one step at a time, which you are already doing by the way. You're still stuck in the in between like me. It sucks, but you want more, right? Then you gotta take another step. Like taking a walk around the outside of the house and gradually make it longer until you can leave. I know it will be hard with your condition, but I believe it will be worth it in the end.

I hope what I've said has helped in someway.

Anyways,

Peace Out

A.S