I'm 24, i don't find anything as enjoyable or exciting as I once did. Anyone else feel this way?

ZoomerAmerican

ZoomerAmerican

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I loved video games when I was a kid and teenager, but now I cant play them and find them incredibly boring. I used to love anime when I was 13-16, but now i find anime boring.

When I was 10-13, I used to love watching every single regular season game of my favorite NBA and MLB team. now i find regular season boring and only intrigued by postseason play. I also thought WWE was the coolest thing ever as a kid, now i find it boring.

As a kid and teenager, i found tv shows and movies with lots of drugs, sex, and adult themes intriguing and entertaining as hell, now im just desensitized to it and i cant remember the last movie i watched that I'd put in my top 50 movies. I don't even find drinking alcohol as enjoyable as i did when i was 17-18 doing it for the first time.

I don't know if I'm going through a quarter life crisis or if this is normal, but literally nothing in life is as enjoyable or exciting as it was 10-15 years ago when i was 10-15 years old. and I'm not saying me at 10-15 was peak life either, At times I was super lonely those years, was bullied, had helicopter parents, etc. There were plenty of things I didn't enjoy about my age 10-15 years. But at least the hobbies or interests I had deeply entertained me such as video games, anime, WWE, watching sports, etc.

But now none of those things deeply entertains me. i don't know if this is normal or if I'm just going thru a quarter life crisis. usually people over 40 feel burnt out by life, but I'm 24 and in my prime and nothing excites me or fulfills me anymore
 
Moondust

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Im 31 and started to have those feelings around your age lol. Hate to say it but it only got worse at least for me. Now im pretty numb to everything but somehow am more anxious than ever. Thinking of getting on depression meds (im already on anxiety meds)

It might have something to do with the trajectory of happiness over the lifetime which has generally been found in western nations to be u shaped


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ZoomerAmerican

ZoomerAmerican

I refuse to die until things are better
Feb 2, 2025
105
Im 31 and started to have those feelings around your age lol. Hate to say it but it only got worse at least for me. Now im pretty numb to everything but somehow am more anxious than ever. Thinking of getting on depression meds (im already on anxiety meds)

It might have something to do with the trajectory of happiness over the lifetime which has generally been found in western nations to be u shaped


ageoverall_thumb.jpg
The chart just doesn't make any sense though.

Why would you start to feel happier when your 60+

At 60+ I'd feel even more depressed I'm not in my prime anymore and I'd be the "old guy" at any social event or any public place. I'd be depressed I can't be as active as I once was.

I really hope a large part of this chart showing a decrease in late 20s and 30s is due to people being unhappy marriages.
 
MelaninQueen

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Feb 19, 2024
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I'm glad you've put me on your ignore list. Stop spamming on this subforum, by the way.
 
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