Emotional Energy

[pinkroger]

I don't know what's wrong with me...I have absolutely no emotional energy left. It's all gone. I can't even listen to music that's energetic, it has to have no energy. This is to the point where it is actually influencing my physical behavior, and my thought processes as well, because I just don't have any will to think about anything at all. Just another thing, with this strange loss of emotional energy, I have developed a fascination with Torquemada. Perhaps it's borderline personality disorder, or maybe I'm psychotic. I couldn't care less which it is.

[curiousjane]

How long have you been like this? Did anything happen in your life recently that was particularly upsetting, draining, or energizing? Or did you just wake up one morning and lack the energy to move?

p.s. What have you been eating? Food affects you more than you might think.

[malefide]

My emotional energy slowly began to go away when I started to develop dysthymic depression. I didn't otherwise have a ton of emotional energy. Now with the dysthymia I still often have "energy" of other sorts, but my emotional drive and interest has almost totally disappeared.

[Provoker]

I don't know what's wrong with me...I have absolutely no emotional energy left. It's all gone. I can't even listen to music that's energetic, it has to have no energy. This is to the point where it is actually influencing my physical behavior, and my thought processes as well, because I just don't have any will to think about anything at all. Just another thing, with this strange loss of emotional energy, I have developed a fascination with Torquemada. Perhaps it's borderline personality disorder, or maybe I'm psychotic. I couldn't care less which it is.

You sound like a decadent. You need change, something new to chew on. Something to stimulate personal growth...I'd take up a new hobby to avoid getting caught in the snare of depression.

[Homini Lupus]

It sounds like anedhonia. I think the only cure are objectives to be reached. And some phisical activity, just to keep in touch with your body. And I woldn't think too much about personal disorders; if you browse a bit around the forum you should notice that many INTJs seem to have personal disorders, but it's just because those tests are cut for "normal" (in statistical terms) people.

[acyckowski]

Sounds to me like stress-induced depression.

Are you having problems at work (or school)? I've gotten like that a couple of times, both times were work-related. I felt trapped in a situation of perpetual conflict with my boss, and could not reason my way out of or around the conflict. After I ran out of viable ways of changing myself, I lost the will to exercise, achieve, or really do much of anything. Once I got a new boss, though, it was like sucking on pure oxygen after being suffocated.

[raconteur213]

I don't know what's wrong with me...I have absolutely no emotional energy left. It's all gone. I can't even listen to music that's energetic, it has to have no energy. This is to the point where it is actually influencing my physical behavior, and my thought processes as well, because I just don't have any will to think about anything at all. Just another thing, with this strange loss of emotional energy, I have developed a fascination with Torquemada. Perhaps it's borderline personality disorder, or maybe I'm psychotic. I couldn't care less which it is.

Try running...if that doesn't work, try walking.

[pinkroger]

Dysthymia, stress, and decadence (interesting way of putting it) could be factors. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, in the middle of the day, I just froze and couldn't do anything. I wasn't even suicidal, although I did want to do some hard drugs (which I have never before done, so it's not addiction).