Chapter 2
DISCUSSION
1. In what ways can depression can be
connected to boredom?
Boredom is an emotional state where you are not
engage in your surroundings. Boredom is a lack of interest, and lack of
connection towards life and people. When you are bored you are not connected in
your environment. It's no accident that people who feel bored often try to
solve their dilemma by going to sleep. This is an attempt to remove
consciousness because the conscious state of being bored can loses hope. (http://www.evolutioncounseling.com/boredom-and-depression.html)
Depression can be linked to boredom. Viewed through
what it relates to two states, they share underlying characteristic. This is
why if you find yourself bored often it's a strong warning sign to look deeply
into how you are living because depression has a good chance to develop (http://www.evolutioncounseling.com/boredom-and-depression.html).
“Boredom is the average state of melancholia, as
long as melancholia is the pathological state or boredom that one finds in
certain individuals.”
In other words, the connection between boredom and
depression very impressively is that this has led to a simple two different
thing and they are the same thing at a different stages of a continuum.
Depression is more than just feeling upset or sad.
It’s a serious illness that leaves you feeling down most of the time and
finding it hard to cope from day to day. Everyone feels depressed or miserable
sometimes, and when you always experiencing that kind of emotion you tend to
not enjoy the beautiful things around you and it loses your interest in the
things around you, you may have depression (http://www.youthbeyondblue.com/depression-and-anxiety/what-is-depression/).
It is normal when we are having ups and downs that
we are experiencing in our life that sadness or the “blues” as what they say
every time. But when you always get used to it every time and you are having a
hard time to escape to it, you may have experiencing depression.
Depression can hinder us to our enjoyable life; it
is hard to function your body, mind, and everything. Depressions are normal
reactions to our challenges, difficulty in our lives. Many of us using the word
depression as to illustrate this variety of feelings, but depression is much
more than just sadness. It can hinder your ability to work, study, eat, sleep, and have fun (http://www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_signs_types_diagnosis_treatment.htm).
A. Boredom- Alcohol
Now a days boredom is one of the main problems of
teenagers; teenagers who has a fully energy and they always wanted to engage in
some activities. That is why it’s so obvious that teens may get tend to use
alcohol and drugs. Being bored is also giving people a chance to use extreme
usage of alcohol. And because of that it saps the motivation of the teens to do
the responsibilities in their work and their family obligations. The excessive
usage of alcohol among teenagers, it is because they have enough money came
from their parents, they are spending all their allowance to give their self-want
they want. There is a study that 50 percent of teens are more likely to drink
out of boredom. Even if the teens will decide to use alcohol, they parents
will guide them to avoid to usage of alcohol.(http://www.militaryschoolalternatives.com/MSA/bored-teens-more-likely-to-drink-take-drugs.htm )
Because of boredom, some people find for a solution
to cope with it such as drinking alcoholic beverages.
Alcoholism is one of the biggest problems of our
society. According to Merriam Webster, alcoholism is a medical condition in
which someone frequently drinks too much alcohol and becomes unable to live a
normal and healthy life.
Everyone that has too much time in their hands may
find out with themselves got into troubled. The people who get to be bored may
experience weary or restless because they lacking of personal interest in their
jobs and life.
Drinking alcoholic beverages is an acceptable
choice of overcoming one’s boredom. Alcohol beverages can come out to take away
the pain of emotional, mental or physical challenges. Boredom is often state of
awareness to show prior to the difficulties, painful things we have stuffed away
from our conscious awareness. Boredom
usually stems from one's own lack of motivation, and creativity.
Everyone gets bored now and then. This kind of boredom can ultimately lead to
an anti-social, destructive path toward addiction.
“Alcohol can briefly produce a pleasant and
relaxed state of the mind. However, alcohol problems and depression commonly
occur together.”
There is a connection between excessive
drinking of alcohol and depression. It is using alcohol as a self-
medication is a common.
This means that because both depression and alcohol
are really related two things, drinking too much alcoholic beverages, or even
regularly you tend to develop depression. People who are suffering from
depression tend to use alcohol to use as a cure because when they use alcoholic
drinks their moods will elevate and trying to ease the depression. And when
people are trying to relive that depression they will always drink heavily and
it keeps on repeating it because if you are drinking too much and regularly you
are like to develop depression.
- Boredom
– Depression (Alcohol)
We all know that alcohol is use to cope with their
daily problems. Society seen alcohol as an aid to allow them to forget for a
while their unresolved problems. Excessive drinking of alcohol may be
occurring into an addiction.
Boredom and depression are really connected to
alcohol cause they are having the same symptoms like having a dilemma in
connecting to its surroundings they are having a hard time to enjoy things
around them and when that feelings occurs to your life, this is reason why
alcoholic beverages can be used to get over the stressful situations that
occurs in their life an they will tend to get addicted to alcoholic drinks.
People use alcohol to avoid the problems that they
are experiencing like boredom and depression. The usages of alcohol are the
reason why this kin d of problem is much worsens.
B. Boredom- Drug
Drug problem is very alarming and it is commonly
used in the Philippines, so far the number of user is increasing and this
is not been ignored. But why is that usage of drugs is very rampant to the
country of Philippines? They have many important things to do instead of using
drugs than can eventually damage your life. One of the main reasons why many
people are using drugs because they are simply bored.
In the same way teens will likely to try new things
like using of drugs, teenagers will try it by once because of peer pressure and
eventually will continue that usage they will see these as a way of having fun
and they will develop into a true addiction but those who are an addict tend to
deny that they are an addict, this is the saddest part because when you get
addicted using of drugs you tend to lose friends because your old friends tend
to move away to create a new set of friends who rejects the usage of drugs, can
developed some health problems, start to fail in school, it losses your
motivation to live that you don't have care about your family and friends.
Parents should be aware of the things that their kids are doing when parents
start noticing about the child's behavior these is the time that parents should
seek help. (http://www.teen-drug-abuse.org/)
"Drug use had taken up the most of their time,
and as a result, they never developed other interests, and leisure activities
or previous pursuits have been dropped due to drug use"
What this means that the feeling of boredom is one
of the main reason why many people start using drugs more likely people become
addicted to drugs. Some people are frightened to remove drugs in their life, and
then their life will be boring and keep people can be trapped in their habit of
using drugs. People see drugs as a source of entertainment when they get
bored. Addiction to drugs can damage your mental and physical heath.
While usage of drugs is alarming in the country,
the Philippine government is strongly catching to eliminate the supply and
demand of illegal drugs. To achieve the challenge of problem in drugs there are
some measures, both private and governmental are being taken. The violators of
the said problem will be referred to undergo investigation and treatment for
rehabilitation.
On the other hand there is a very close connection
between usage of drugs and depression and they both occur extremely high to
one's individuals.
"They have difficulty either
accepting that they're depressed or recognizing that what they're experiencing
is depression and can be treated with medications or psychotherapy."
People who are using drugs may directly affect
their brains and that can cause depression. Particularly in marijuana that can
slow down your brain's operation that can lead to depression.
In addition, depression can cause usage of drugs
why because people who are experiencing depression trying to self-medicate
themselves. In taking drugs, many people changed on how they feel they can
create much worse problem for themselves.
- Boredom-
Depression (Drugs)
Boredom is
nearly aligned with depression, but is understood to be conceptually different
like boredom through active users will eventually associate with depression.
The associations of boredom and depression about their symptoms captive the
range of psychological well-being that can affect the ability of one's
individual.
Many individual who are among drug
users. Workers who are using drugs can alleviate their boredom. Most of the
association in boredom, depression and drug use has investigated and it has the
tendency to experience boredom. The relation between drug use and experiencing
boredom among active users of drugs is having a relationship between boredom
and other mental problems. http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/depression/drugsanddepression_000487.htm
C. Boredom- Dating
Dating out of boredom among teenagers is now a new
trend because as we all know teenagers have plenty of time that is why they
tend to do anything what they want, teens like to explore these days like to
date someone even if they don't want that person will eventually starts with a
simple date like walking in the park, drinking some coffee afterwards they were
been in a relationship and suddenly when they are bored with that relationship
and that was not a good relationship. Teens will eventually realize their
mistake by doing that action because of boredom and can lead it into a break
ups among relationships of the young lovers. (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-23/man-woman/28372933_1_relationships-boredom-youngsters)
Therefore dating out of boredom can lead to a dull
relationship, people change for the better or worse and it can't just help it.
Becoming lazy in your relationship, you don't want to put some effort in order
to liven up your relationship. Your partner stops to impress you. That is very
challenging to maintain that sweetness especially when you are in a long term
relationship. Each other must give their best shot every time to retain that
retain that "sparks".
These are just some of the reason why do we get bored
in our relationship, first you become lazy, because you get used to it, and
it’s like a daily routine of your daily life. In short your emotions to your
relationship flattened. Your relationship starts to get monotonous. Second is
you take his/her for granted third is money has become an issue specially for
the married couples they tend to fight for that money. Forth is you don't kiss,
because kiss can express your love to your love ones. (http://www.askmen.com/dating/dating_advice_60/60_dating_tips.html)
It is hard to find a compatible person for you to
fall in love with and even when you found the right one for you, you might not
get your satisfaction and having a complicated relationship. However there are
a lot of challenges like fear, over sensitivity and mood swings that you may
encounter in dating especially when you are in the state of emotional when it
comes to depression. (http://www.torontosnumber1datedoctor.com/NEWSLETTER%20ARTICLES/dating_anxiety_depression.html)
- Boredom-
Depression (Dating)
The researcher strongly believes that there is a
connection among these three: boredom, depression and dating, because when you
are about to date someone and yet you are in the state of boredom and
depression you are having lack of interest, you are doing that thing because it
is necessary and not because you want it. People who are experiencing that kind
of problem are not comfortable in meeting new people.
D. Boredom- Gambling
The researcher connects boredom to gambling it is
because it shows the correlation to each other. It has been claimed
that there is a way to experience boredom and it has its importance to be more
likely to do gambling behavior. The continuation of boredom to one's individual
can cause people to gamble this way to reduce the boredom.
"It's a boredom thing. It's certainly
something we have to keep an eye on"
Boredom must be given attention by some people who lead
to gambling. In other words the relationship of boredom to gambling is define
as a state of under- arousal, and can motivate people to do gambling in order
to increase their emotions of not becoming bored. There's a tendency to
experience boredom when it is believe that it is more likely have a big factor
in the problem of gambling.
The researcher connects depression to gambling it
is because it shows connection by just simply the
Most gamblers has psychological disorder and one of the psychological disorder is anxiety, which depression is one of the symptoms of anxiety. People who gamble are the people who escape work, relationship, problems, and boredome. Gamblers leads to depression because they can't accept that they will never win back what they have lost and gambler's problems cause strong feelings among family members which make it harder to solve problems.(http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/10826088909047292)
"People gamble to escape bad
relationships, or work pressures — a range of perceived problems, but some are
obviously gambling in an attempt to escape from the sadness, anxiety and other
troubling thoughts that are the symptoms of a mental illness,"
One of the main reasons why the
people are hooked up with gambling is because of numerous problems that they
face in life, we can't really blame all of them for becoming hooked with such a
bad thing since it is normal in life but sometimes we should just understand
this people because we might not know that the problem that they are facing
might be for us something that isn't really that much of a problem but for them
is something that they have a hard time facing do they just do the best thing
that they could think of is find a different outlet for them to spill all of
those problems that they are facing in their everyday lives.
- Boredom
- depression (Gambling)
The researcher wants to point out that either
the problem is boredom or depression. Both will still lead to a person looking
for something that could take away the feeling that we don't like. This in this
case would be boredom and also depression. And so they would look for something
else to take that problem, which would be arousing of the percentage of
gambling.
Getting bored and depress makes you feel unhappy
and with this there are things that you don't expect that you can do it and
suddenly you see yourself doing that crazy things.
E. Boredom - Eating
Eating is a response to boredom. Eating the is one of the instrument of
many individuals. Other people use eating to lessen the pain of emotion that
they feel. Emotional eating like eating out of boredom is so hard to break. "Emotional eating is eating as a way to end negative
emotions, such as boredom. Both major life events and the hassles of daily life
can trigger negative emotions that lead to emotional eating" (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/weight-loss/MH00025/METHOD=print)
"Emotional eating has a relationship with boredom, and eating has
been found across emotions."
Emotional eating is about how a person tries to cope with his/her emotions by eating. Boredom triggers an emotion in a person that causes them to resolve their current situation by eating.
"Even eating small quantities is linked to a significantly higher chance of developing depression." Emotional eating is emotional eating whether the quantity of the food you eat is many or a few.
There are types of Emotional eating and to name some are by overeating- eating a lot of food just to overcome situations and in most situations they eat junk food; Diet- by dieting the people involved with depression uses diet as inspiration so that they will have better bodies because they think that body weight is the cause on which they have depression; Trance eating- it is a form of eating while doing another thing. So basically to improve the happiness that activities do for you, you do other things as well such as eat. Causing people to be in a trance while eating. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lloyd-glauberman-phd/emotional-eating-are-you-a-problem-eater_b_805832.html)
- Boredom - Depression (Eating)
Boredom is related to depression because they share underlying characteristics, they overlap to each other and it is evident in the information the researcher has provided above. Eating is related to boredom because, eating is a form of how people try to relieve themselves from boredom. As to depression and eating it is similar to the relationship of eating and boredom because eating can reduce the emotions that people are experiencing.
On the side note,The next time you feel bored, instead of trying to escape the state by working, drinking, socializing, or sleeping, try looking deeply into yourself to see what your boredom is telling you about the structure of your life. The way to beat boredom or depression is to find the conditions that make you feel authentically fulfilled and connected. This connection might be to life, people, nature, a cause, your job, your spirituality, or anything else you can think of. Your boredom or your depression are telling you something important about yourself and you've got to listen instead of avoiding the issue.(http://www.evolutioncounseling.com/boredom-and-depression.html)
