I too have some kind of your mentioned Symptoms, I have very enthusiastic Phases were I feel just like Superman, or like I am on heavy Drugs...idk how this thread turned into an argument about whether depression is real or not,
but I'm fine.
I've been doing 2-4 mile runs at a beautiful park every day for the past week, and it feels great.
I just needed to get out there and start doing stuff.
I don't think I was burnt out or depressed or whatever. I think I was just lazy and people were right about me being on social media too much cause I was and kinda still am.
Its hard to break cause I've just grown up constantly stimulated, but I'll figure it out.
Other than that, thanks everybody
To anyone relating to the original post.
Just go out there and do stuff. Go on a run, push yourself, make content, sell, whatever.
Theres no point in thinking about it too much, cause you just don't have data to make a good decision. So the best course of action is to just do and figure it out later.
I'm realizing that feelings are also very misleading. Just cause I feel a certain way like feeling "empty" doesn't mean I don't want something. I think this is what people meant by purpose.
Cause even though I may feel "empty," I still have a long list of reasons to keep working and achieve my goals.
So I'm not gonna make judgements based on my short-term feelings and instead make judgements on my logical understanding of what I want out of life. And theres a LOT I want out of life.
Also, I figured out one thing for sure, EVERYTHING I want from life, comes from winning. And winning comes from doing, so ima jus focus on that.
(side note, i personally think life is meaningless so im gonna choose whatever meaning I want, and my meaning right now is to just win and help others)
BUT then it crashes... and im down for months.. and then the cycle continues
I have these Phases since I got 14 and didn't found a solution yet. But it has nothing to do with Social Media for me, which I personally despise (excluding Youtube because it has a lot of High-Quality Videos which can't be produced in 30 Seconds like in Tiktok).
This is very correlated with the (from the Person) assigned Meaning of Life I think, because since 14 I came into this Existential Hole...
If it's really pathologic, it's called "Hypomania".
I can't yet say more about it, but if you think life is meaningless then I have something for you:
“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.”
― E. M. Cioran (one of my favourite Philosophers, but don't look at him if you want to be happy)
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