Have completely turned off from life
Thank you for taking time to read my story. I've worked my entire life and at times even been considered a workaholic. Eight months ago I quit my job for reasons I myself am not entirely clear when I look back. I had over the course of 2019 convinced myself that I hated my job and while there were elements about it I didn’t like or agree with, I’m not sure that warranted quitting now that I look back. I do think I had got into a rut and maybe didn’t understand the complexity of that rut and decided to try something else despite having nothing else planned. I think my boss might have caught onto something that even I was unable to see as he asked me if I was having a mid life crisis after I told him I was quitting. I told him no but I now wonder if I was having one or if something else is going on.
As I type this, I have spent most of the last 8 months sitting on my couch watching more television than anytime in my life. I feel like a machine that has just shut off completely. I haven’t even so much as tried to look for another job and my only goal each day is to think about what I’m making for dinner later. I’m up to 3 or 4 in the morning sometimes even to day break or later and sleep during the day, a complete reversal of my sleep schedule from when I was working. During waking hours, literally hours will go by and I lose all sense of time before I notice how late in the day it is. At the end of April, I had a “moment of clarity” where it dawned on me that I haven’t done anything for 4 months and I really didn’t notice those 4 months pass by. I haven’t done much since then, although I do seem to be more aware that I’m just wasting away on my couch. Over the last month, I’ve got what I would call “bursts of confidence” and I feel really good for a day or two. I don’t do anything to act on that but at least I feel better as opposed to just feeling nothing.
Has anybody else ever experienced anything like this or know why I’ve gone from a functioning adult with goals and a work ethic to just unmotivated and disconnected? Have I experienced some sort of mental breakdown? Can anybody relate this behavior?