Ennui is a form of chronic boredom and it usually involves tiredness, dissatisfaction, apathy and feeling that everything is uninteresting and unfulfilling.

• Boredom means being in a mental state that is short-tern and caused mainly by situational and environmental factors
• Ennui relates to a mental state that is chronic and caused mainly by personality-based factors (a person's disposition).

Generally, ennui makes you feel almost always bored (in general or in specific parts of your life - your job or your hobbies); you feel this boredom on a deep, existential level, in a way that is hard to change.

• Think about what you truly want to do, because this can help you understand why you experience ennui.
• Talk to someone to get a better perspective regarding why you experience ennui.
• Change your routine to break away the mo...

• Ennui is associated with various dangers: it can cause people to engage in dangerous, sensation-seeking behaviors, in an effort to alleviate their boredom.
• Ennui can lead to a bad, self-perpetuating downward cycle: it causes you to go lower and lower, by leading you to a place wher...