I am 39 and I am suffering from a well known disease that effect many men my age.
The conditions are as follows:
A lack of concentration when someone is talking to me to listen to what they are saying.
A lack of physical motivation after I have an orgasm at anytime (self or mutual).
Yawning uncontrollably during even my favorite TV shows or events.
When a younger, attractive woman walks by, I only notice what she might have looked like 5 seconds after she has turned the corner because I was focused on who knows what (pepsi, Bonds chase of the HR record, The Mothers of Invention) when she originally passed by. I have to conclude she was hot just so my friends don't notice my disease.
There are no infomercials on this and even the guys that tells you to poop 5 times a day hasn't address it.
The disease is Apathy
Does apathy happen to you? I used to think that apathy happened because a guy gets married but it has to be more than that. It is age? It is physical/mental awareness? It is enhanced dairy products? What causes this?
Input is appreciated, a cure would be compensated.
Thanks for your attention. The next life you save might just be your own. 
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lintroller
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Jun 12 @ 10:57AM
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It goes along with the larger umbrella of "depressed mood."
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geena
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Jun 12 @ 11:05AM
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awww, Lint, I really hope not because I do suffer some of those 
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Ewe_Wish
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Jun 12 @ 11:05AM
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Apathy by definition is the lack of emotion or enthusiam. I don't believe it comes with age so much but by past diappointments in a persons live. When you are not "rewarded" with the things you do or how you feel, I believe you can become apathetic. For example, If you have a job and nobody notices that your doing a good job it is not that abnormal to become bored with the job, and perhaps not do as good of job. You begin to feel that anyone could do your job so why put the effort into it when no one realizes how hard you work. As for yawning thru your favorite shows, well that is never a disappointment to us so we never have to feel anything about it. The good guy always wins, and there is always a happy ending. Although we see movies/events/tv shows that dont always end like that, on the whole most don't have anything to do with our everyday lives so we are disjointed, removed from it so basically it still doesn't have any effect on how we feel towards life. Than there is love, basically if your disappointed in what you love life (the emotion not the act) you become attuned to this 'realistic' feeling (whether true or not) that love will always be a disappointment so again you remove your emotions so that your not disappointed.
Perhaps the way to get past the apathetic feeling would be to find new challenges whether it be in work, home life, or love. We tend to get to the point we refuse to hope for anything because we think it will always be the same, instead of looking forward to the new day and what it could bring us.
But, nooner, you are not alone in that feeling. Sometimes its better to do that than allow ourselves to be disappointed again. To let ourselves stay in that feeling is where the problem lies. I dont want to be old and think all that i have missed.
The "you" in my statement was not direct at you per say, but was used as a general term. Have a nice day!!!
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wtxman
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Jun 12 @ 3:23PM
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Thank god at 56 I don't have that problem; sorry but I can't offer any help.
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borty293
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Jun 12 @ 4:24PM
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What did you say? 
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PrincessKissy
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Jun 12 @ 6:13PM
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I used to think I was apathetic, now I realize I don't care enough to be apathetic.
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Argit01
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Jun 12 @ 6:16PM
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I suffer from apathy as every time I tell a funny story or joke my friends say "that was a pathetic thing to say!"
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Loveyoulongtime2
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Jun 12 @ 8:29PM
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Hmmm! I can't seem to be able to concentrate on much, and I don't even care. 
I think this is a growing epidemic on these sites.
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Ashinatrix
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Jun 13 @ 12:52AM
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I learned the meaning of the term apathetic when I brought it home on my 2nd grade progress report..... 
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