![]() ![]() The supposed result is that young people experience time as passing very slowly. Many years ago it was suggested to me that so many adolescents feel bored because their metabolism operates more quickly than during adulthood. Using a similar explanation, it is thought that many teenagers turn to drugs and alcohol out of boredom felt at home and in school. In fact, the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous suggests that yearning or wanting along with bored feelings are what lead the alcoholic to drink. Many professionals in the field of substance abuse state that it is boredom that is one of the catalysts for drug and alcohol abuse. There are a few studies from the 1990’s that seem to substantiate at least a correlation between boredom and anger plus hostility. The theory states that boredom is anger and hostility that a person turns against the self resulting in the feeling of boredom. One theory of boredom comes from psychoanalysis. In other words, it is the inability to know what to do, or to know what might feel good, or to have any hobbies, interests or enjoyments is what leads to the feeling of being bored. One does not have to experience alexithymia in it full blown flatness but the inability to know one prefers to do is a similar type of thing. If they do remember them they have no way of explaining or imagining what they might mean. People who experience alexithymia usually lack a fantasy and dream life or at least are unable to remember their dreams. Alexithymia is the inability to know what one’s feelings really are. It is believed by some researchers that some people experience boredom out of an inability to know what they are feeling and what it is they really want. Others in the class were fascinated but I could barely keep my eyes open. This is not unlike the political science class that I took in undergraduate school many years ago. Due to feeling bored, the one person is not able to focus their attention on the lecture and they gradually fall asleep. In other words, if two people attend a lecture and one of them is bored and falls asleep but the other one is fascinated it means that they each have a different and subjective reaction to the same experience. The reason that the word "feeling" in the last sentence is in quotes is that boredom is subjective an in the conscious experience of the individual person. So, what is boredom, what seems to cause it and what can be done about it?Īccording to the Oxford American Dictionary, second edition, the word, bored "is a feeling of being weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in their current activity." Another definition of "bored" is that it is a "feeling" of having nothing to do. However, there is not a lot that is known about it except that boredom is very unpleasant. Have you ever heard this plaintive cry or uttered it your self? This lament about boredom affects young or old alike. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the states. was in private practice for more than thirty years. ![]()
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