I feel really numb and de-sensitised

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Not in a bad way, just in a really dumb way. Nothing ever moves me these days - I don't get happy, get sad, get anrgy, anything. Nothign has changed significantly in my life, my social life is relitivly healthy - I presume it's just a phase. I don't seem to feel things as much as I used to. Funny films arn't as funny, repulsive films arn't as repulsive, emotionally-charged music simply bores me. It's like someone's turned down my contrast and brightness - it ain't half annoying.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeh, the question! Duh!

What do you lot suggest to snap me out of this? What should I see or do or experience or what?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you on some sort of medication that might be making you feel numb?

I don't know what to tell you. I've got the opposite problem - I'm constantly overstimulated because I'm so sensitive.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

No no, no medication. No drugs (discluding the odd pint down the pub) - just listlessness, you know? A combination of boredom and apathy, I guess.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

get involved in some sort of community enhancing activity

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I know what you mean Johnney. I've been feeling in a bit of a rut for a while - a pleasant enough, comfortable rut, but a rut nonetheless.

I think I need a new hobby.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Shaking up the routine is key. Do something completely outside of your normal routine, preferably with a group of people so that you have someone to react with.

Whatever you do, do not use this:

http://www.produtos.com.br/mandelay/mandelay_logo.jpg

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Tried that - I volenteer up Oxfam, and pop in every week or so to help with their music department. This is what's puzzling me - it's not as if I can point to something and say "This is why I am unfulfilled" - I lead what the social workers would call a full life!

Uh, Dan . . . what's that?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

ManDelay Industries, how may I direct your call?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

This morning I accompanied my wife to the pharmacy. While she was picking up her perscription, I was looking at the contraceptive/sexual enhancement products to see which one had the funniest name.

You are looking at the winner.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"On the Road to Mandelay" indeed.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

(I had been looking for an excuse to post a link to that all day; imagine how psyched I was to read the title of this thread!)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I exist only to serve.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

(My other advice was genuine, BTW. Actually, the joke advice was genuine as well, but perhaps less useful.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, something outside the routine. I'll look into it Dan, cheers.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Shaking up the routine is key. Do something completely outside of your normal routine, preferably with a group of people so that you have someone to
react with.

It's very good advice. I didn't realize it at the time, but last year when I started helping some friends with gardening, it was just the low-key but important change I needed -- it helped me get closer with some folks, while working with others in a new context, and provided some solid grounding after months of upheaval and worry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Watch Ichi the Killer.

Get an album by Whitehouse - Mummy & Daddy, Cruise (Force the Truth)(www.susanlawly.freeuk.com)
Sutcliffe Jugend - the victim as beauty, is also a nice album
www.coldspring.co.uk might have it

Tear up all your clothes and wander around outside with bare feet. Somewhere filled with lots of people. Oh my God!!Not Wearing SHOES!!!

Go to the woods alone in the middle of the night.

Go looking for people to beat up. Only the nasty ones that go out looking for trouble though e.g rapists, gangs of schemies in tracksuits that hang around outside chippy/bus stop.

Start a fire in the street(the places will be easily spotted once you start thinking about it).

Dress up in drag,(don't look too convincing), and go to some shitty part of the town where you are likely to be kicked in. Ask/order locals to scrub your tongue.

Go to church-drink holy water-replace with piss/petrol

― splatter, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that's more a list of dares than life advice, but uh . . . thanks!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Cartoons/2003%20cartoons/cartoon%20negatives/2003/August/tablechar.jpg

― Dada, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i second the goign in the woods bit. the ardenaline rush wont last long but its very inviorating while it lasts. especialy if its the kind of wods with wild aminals in it.

xpost hi girol... er dada.

― :|, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

ManDelay Industries, how may I direct your call?

Haha, the same thing goes through my head every time I see that stuff in Walgreen's.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

might make you feel more alive inside though.in some way.
get whitehouse

― splatter, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel quite similar, but I guess I can attribute this to alot of stress that is going on in my life. I am a natural pessimist & even when things are fun I am thinking on the down side & hence i do not really get the full impact of things. I can't really suggest a course of action, I can only sympathise.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I often feel this way, ya know just kinda there, stumbling along. But then I don't think I've changed and become this way, more just always had a vague feeling of meloncholy, and no one real ups and downs in terms of mood.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

follow thee orders

― splatter, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Last night I dreamt I went to (get the) ManDelay again.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Go to Glastonbury. Any way you can.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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