Very intense apathy?

Question

Hello... my problem is this... lately my morality has been slipping, along with my faith in God... along with that, my concern about life. I feel apathetic about everything, school, friends, future plans. Even when I have some intense emotion like sadness or depression, even to the point where I'm crying, it still feels like I really don't care, and that I'm really wearing a mask. I desperately want to care again! How do I do this? I've tried everything... life just seems to have lost its luster...

Answer 1

I think your bored.

Answer 2

It really does sound like a brown out about life, as though you are in an existential crisis. "What is there to get up for, what difference does it make?" Is this correct?

your Faith in God...that's okay he still believes in you...be more gracious with yourself, He knows what you are going through.

One thing we are not taught enough in Church is that we are in the New Covenant with God..eg He has done it all, we have not got any bargain to live up to.. that's old Covenant.

I'll tell you a story,

Say Fred has become a Christian and he is holding hands with God, he has a bad day and swears a bit...oops feels his hand slipping from God...then to drown the pain of thinking he is losing his salvation, he gets drunk...another no no and feels his hands slipping more...then one day he does the WORST THING!! eek shock horror, doesn't tithe or give to the chruch offering anymore....then people ask where Fred is and people say, well he has gone down the back slidden christian trail and we don't see him anymore...

Well actually what Jesus has done is like this:

Imagne the grip that Trapeze artists use, the grip to each other's wrists grip, that is like the grip God has on us. So we have a bad day, and swear, we may let go a lttle but His grip is still there to hold us, then we may get drunk, again our grip lets go a little, but He is still holding us, then maybe we don't give what we would like, and feel like we have let go entirely, BUT HE STILL HAS US...that's the New Covenant Jesus made with the death, burial and ressurrection.

Ministry Brunout or exhausted depression is that you have been over taxed and under rested for too long, maybe chasing that "doing enough for God" feeling that keeps you running from Church actvity to activity, all it does is wear you out. You are not our performance and you are not your achievements, and God will inherit who you become not what you have achieved in the end.You cannot fail in God. Lower your expectations and listen to y our body. Stop trying to earn your significance and let Jesus take up the slack for you.

Books to read about the Grace of God

"Grace Awakening" Chuck Swindoll

Grace, the power to Change Dr James B Richards

What's so amazing about grace Philip Yancey

Inthe grip of grace Max Lucado

Transforming grace and the Discipline of grace Jerry Bridges

Love you hope i helped

Mel

Answer 3

Try seeing the world through a different set of eyes, do some volunteer work with children.  Big Brothers/Big Sisters....you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time.  Sometimes it's the little things in life that turn out to make a huge difference.  

Answer 4

it does happen, have you had a stress recently ?

i had two times this happened to me- ones i took me three months to get feelings back, the other time- took me 4 weeks

you just need change  

Answer 5

I think Intense Apathy is quite the oxymoron!

I feel this sometimes, too. However, if you're crying, you're feeling something. When you start to feel like you don't care, your putting that good ol "wall" up. So you don't get hurt again. And then you just start not giving two sh^ts, which makes you feel better for the time being. Then, you EXPLOOOOODE and have a horrible mental breakdown. At least, thats how I used to function.

Try something different in life. Be spontaneous. Move somewhere that you don't know anybody. It will put the surprises back in life.

It also sounds like you got some clinical depression going on. Talk to a doc, if you believe in anti-depressants.

Answer 6

yea, I know how you feel, you should go to a psychologist, and talk about what's going on, and he'll diagnose you.

Maybe you're just depressed, but you could have a chemical unbalance in your brain, that's causing it, and may need medication to fight it