Don’t suggest hobbies or human contact. It’s been suggested and it doesn’t work.
I have a job I don’t particularly hate nor like, some coworkers I get along with others are just morons, I go to work, then buy groceries, go home, eat, watch tv, go to bed. Rinse and repeat.
On my free days I do sport and watch pirated netflix. I don’t spend much money on clothing or media and save most of my paycheck. What for? I have no idea. I don’t eat out because I like cooking my own food and restaurants are expensive and the food is bland.
Everything is so expensive nowadays btw…
Most people bore me. I’m like an atheist monk.
I don’t want to kill myself or anybody fwiw. It’s like I don’t give a crap about anything or anyone and don’t see what’s the point of living.
I don’t want to travel because it costs money.
As soon as my cognitive abilities start to fail I’m going to be very easy prey for any online scammer.
Seeing a therapist is probably the way to go here.
When you realise they cannot help you, it’ll make you feel even more depressed.
Eventually, if you’re lucky, you’ll get a good one that teaches you some tools to help yourself.
I’ve had several and have seen everything from ‘amazingly helpful’ to ‘collecting a fee, didn’t even listen’.
Finding a good one is 80% of the battle. Sadly I haven’t discovered any shortcuts there.
One of the better ones I’ve seen said right at the start “we will meet three times only,” and had a tactical plan in place for what would get done in those 3 sessions.
Contrast this with another where I talked, unidirectional, for about 20 sessions and had to ask “when will I be getting something back here?” She picked up her pencil and made a note, commenting “how interesting… do you approach all your relationships and ask ‘what’s in it for me?’”
Well going into it with defeatist attitude will almost certainly cause it to fail, and that goes for most things in life.
I agree. If human connection “doesn’t work” then something is really wrong. It’s fine to want more than just the human connections you’ve got, but to categorically rule it out is a red flag and I think the other responses here are just providing blind alleys to someone who is unwell.