Boredom and anxiety, the modern condition?

[Lark]

I wonder if any forumers have experienced a mix of boredom and anxiety? Perhaps anxiety is the wrong term, dread maybe?

I've been looking into how to conceptualise this feeling and whether or not there's been much writing on it, I'm not sure its exactly the same as Satre's ideas about nausea, Camus' absurdity or N's optimistic nihilism, neither am I sure that anomie or alienation cut it either, the closest I think perhaps are some ideas from economics about marginal opportunity costs, I think I'm using the right terms there but not entirely sure, when you are paralysed from making a decision because doing so involves the automatic cost of the choice you did not make.

That's not the whole picture either but you know.

You could be bored but can not settle or relax with anything distracting, such as reading, because of the dread but then are doomed to experience the boredom.

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

Anxiety can leave me a bit unfocused and paralyzed which leads to a kind of boredom. I always have stuff I want to do, but anxiety can shatter focus and give a sick physical feeling, so for me the cause-and-effect relationship between the two states is very clear. It never happens the other way around.

 

[Galena]

Nope, they're not tied together for me. I experience an above average amount of anxiety and dread, but can't remember the last time I experienced boredom for more than a few seconds. There's always something to do.

 

[Cellmold]

I find motion, or a mirror of, creates new purpose.

If you don't know, then do and find out as you progress.

 

[kotoshinohaisha]

True. There's actually explanation for that..

Today's Youth Are Depressed, Here's Why... - YouTube

Technology

And it's been found that people before technology doesn't get bored as much as we do today. XD

Therefore, dropping off your mobile phone and facing real world isn't that boring at all because you can do alot of things aside from just facing your phone. XD