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Postby rainbowjellyfish » Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:07 pm

I never do anything productive, even though there are so many important things for me to do, because I feel as though nothing is real. Why should I do anything when it's not really there? Nothing drives me. I know it IS real, but still the feeling takes over and I end up doing nothing day after day. Even if I do do something, it's short lived and when nighttime falls feelings take over and I'm back where to I started. I don't feel depressed, because I don't feel anything. Recently I've been ending up suddenly realising that I'm actually awake, and not dreaming. It's getting worse. I'm going to talk to my therapist about this, but for now any advice would be useful.
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Re: no motivation

Postby QO5 » Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:07 pm

Hello... I don't have despersonalization but my boyfriend does. He like you has amotivational syndrome, he is really smart but it took him like five years to graduate from highschool and has quit three careers in important universities. I am no expert in the matter but I have notice that he needs a social circle to push him, and not by forcing him to do things but by invitting him places, showing him new things, as simple as they can be. So maybe you can try that, share with the people close to you what you feel and that you need a little push to start moving. It is a fact that people with a nice social circle have better lifes. As I said, I do not have what you have but I have learn from my years spended with my boyfriend that it is impossible to always be happy, so we have to hold on the vage memory of the shortest moment we feel something, as small or unrealistic that it seems.
And also remember that amotivation is also related to depresion. As you might know it is difficult to treat DP with medication but depresion can be treated with medication and therapy.
I hope my experience helps you, as it helped me writing it.
Good luck and don't fotget to always talk to you therapist.
(Sorry for my english)
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