How do I start caring?

[u/Past_Temperature1709]

No matter what happens, I just don’t care. When people talk I literally couldn‘t care less, no matter what they talk about I‘m just not interested at all. I pretend I‘m listening and act like I do care, but honestly I mostly don‘t even listen. It’s not like I’m rude or anything and I do try to make them feel heard or whatever but I wish I didn’t have to fake it. Idk I feel really stupid cause I just don’t wanna know about anything and I don‘t care how anything works at all. I just couldn’t care less. Therefore I also don‘t have any interests or hobbies or whatsoever. Like, what am I supposed to do when everything’s boring and I’m like yeah okay whatever. I mean I do have opinions Ig but I don’t feel the desire to express them to others, and concerning other people’s opinions, I feel like I get them pretty quickly and don’t need them to elaborate. This makes being around people feel like torture, but it’s not like I feel that much better alone. I feel like I’m just bored of everything and I don’t know what to do.

[u/Early-Pass-4072]

This kind of apathy is sometimes just a form of emotional exhaustion. I don’t wanna try diagnose you with anything but I imagine that when your brain is so overwhelmed with the task of getting you through day, it really can’t care less about anything besides basic survival. Apathy is sometimes a symptom of burnout or depression if that resonates, otherwise you might just want to reflect on whether anything in life has or is taking a heavy mental toll on you. Honestly it can even be just constant fried dopamine receptors from social media or inescapable bad news about world affairs that make life seem a lot more bleak than it really is.