casualbb said:
I'm just feeling apathetic in general, maybe I need to deal with that.
You said a mouthful right there. (I'm about to do the same so be forewarned.)
I think this is probably the crux of the matter. Once you take care of it, everything else should fall into place...you can't train or eat very well when you're heart simply ain't in the game, after all.
How to address it, exactly, I'm unsure. I can say that one of my good friends experienced something similar, and he decided to see his family doctor about it.
He'd reached a point at which he was blase by everyday things, even losing interest in sex (all the more remarkable given his very good-looking wife of 2 yrs.). His hobbies gave him no satisfaction; he abandoned them altogether. I didn't talk to him much at all for weeks on end, but when I did, it sounded as if his self-confidence couldn't fill a thimble.
I think the fact that he was under a lot of stress (marriage, paying bills, working as a physical therapist, etc.) for years on end simply created a chemical imbalance in his brain, and he wound up depressed. His "perfect melancholy" personality type let things slowly wear him down more than some other people might be affected.
He finally went to his family doc. The doc gave him a shot of test and a script for the anti-depressant Lexapro.
Placebo or not, within 2 weeks he was more like himself. Now, several months after starting Lexapro, you'd never know he'd been almost crippled by apathy, that months ago he shrugged of sex with a hot woman with "yeah,
whatever"!!!!!
In my opinion, Lexapro's the best anti-depressant on the market. Others have too many side-effects.
Paxil is at LEAST as addictive as heroin, something you won't hear too often in the press (and I don't care
what a lazy MD says. They can verify that by taking the thing for six months, then suddenly stop. If they don't shoot themselves in the head from the agony, they'd live to agree with me). Its sexual side FX are also well-known. Prozac tends to jack people up too much, and I've not heard much good about Wellbutrin et al.
I think you should ask your doctor about it. MDs usually prefer certain drugs more than others, but you're a smart cookie: argue with them about their preferences, and get a second opinion if you need to.
I honestly believe it'd benefit you, bro. I remember what it was like to be 20 and in school...it
was only 5-6 years ago
Classes are tough enough, but when you throw in relationships (especially the ones that go sour), being away from home, etc., etc., it CAN take its toll.
At the very least, telling a doc at the infirmary about some of this couldn't hurt, right?
You might think I've made too much of too little, but when I hear "apathetic in general" I can't shrug it off too easily.
-Sean
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