Easily Bored? You Are Risking Great Deal!
For many people boredom is a trivial feeling of not a big value. But it has darker side: Easily bored people are at higher risk for depression, anxiety, drug addiction, alcoholism, compulsive gambling, eating disorders, hostility, anger, poor social skills, bad grades and low work performance.
Part of the boredom puzzle may be individual differences in how much excitement and novelty we require. Men, for example, are generally more bored than women. They also exhibit more risk-taking behaviors, report enjoying more dangerous entertainment and are more likely to say that their environments are dull.
Highly bored individuals also tend to lack the ability to entertain themselves. As a result, they may turn to activities like doing drugs, says McWelling Todman at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
It is possible that the roots of boredom lie in a fundamental breakdown in our understanding of what it is we want to do. Bored people tend to score low on measures of self-awareness. So what to do with it? Read this.
me —
i think this is bull. and maybe that’s just the “bored” person in me speaking. but it couldn’t be more true! i am an incredibly bored person. it takes a great deal to keep me focused, entertained or alert. but none of that ahs EVER contributed to anything negtaive other than motivating me to do more and get out more and try to find things that stimulate me enough to keep me happy. and all of which do NOT include any habitual non sense like gambling, drug use, alcoholism, hositility, etc … i think the waorse thing that has come of this is my need to constantly be renewing my surroundings. switching my furniture around, creating new email accounts, new blog accounts, just changing things up contsantly to keep my space fresh and alive. it’s rejuvenating so i can’t see how that is a bad thing really. and i am also one of the mose self aware people on this planet!
me —
and yes, i am aware that my last post carries qutie a bit of improper grammar