trendingwaifu

Thanks for the suggestion. I actually do a kind of yoga (though more focused on long poses and stretching) and it indeed does help. So does working out. I do feel calm and content while doing it, but that feeling does not last very long beyond the practice. Once I get back in front of the screen, it's back to the usual self.

> playing video games became a chore

Ouch. This is the one I identify the most with. I am, or was, a huge gamer. I used to play shooters, MMOs, and grindy RPGs and loved it. I could easily spend the whole day playing.

Now I can barely play for more than an hour without feeling some kind of anxiety that I'm wasting my time or need to get to the goal as efficiently as possible. How can I fix this!?

I'm already taking vitamin supplements :)

> what is this everything you want to have time for? Do you wish to be in a relationship? since you mentioned it at the beginning.

I don't know to be honest. Perhaps what's nagging at me is the lack of optionality. There are certain things I am now too old to do, like go to a school as typical student, go crazy at festival or clubs, go backpacking and easily meet new people, and have casual relationships. It's not that I want to do these things. I don't feel any desire for them. But the fact that I don't have the option to do them is depressing to me.

Thanks, I've thought about this. I don't think I have depression, at least not severe, but I definitely am less able to enjoy pleasure as I was many years ago. Even the definition of pleasure, sex, has kind of lost its flavor as I became older.