I was in a drama slump for 10 months until I started to watch Live Up to Your Name. This drama is exceptional, it has well written plot and great actors that revived my interests for Korean Drama.

I've been trying to figure out my drama slump for a while, and right now I think it's because there have been so many distressing things happening in the U.S. that's it's hard to watch difficult situations in dramas. I end up dropping them as soon as anything bad happens, so pretty much that means I'm dropping all of them! Evil drama characters? I can see real evil characters on the news every day, already more than I want to.

This is kind of off topic, but I came across a youtube video posted this week by Martina (in the Simon and Martina channel). She describes things she does to overcome her depression (which she feels because of her chronic pain). She says she makes a ladder to climb out of her depression, and she describes the little things that she can do to change her whole perspective on a day. I found it really encouraging.

This is so true I can't even. This is me this whole year. Nothing interests me anymore and I feel like I'm just floating around. I just occasionally read recaps here and there or watch some small clips but I can't get myself to watch a full drama. When I do start a drama, I end up dropping it a few episodes in. At one point, I thought I've grown out of dramas, but that's kind of impossible. I'm a drama-addict. How did this happen? Yep. I'm in a deep slump. So deep that now I feel like I just need to lay there and take a long nap. #sadbuttrue

Yup, you perfectly described the monumental first-world conundrum I find myself in now. It's especially tough because I have a strict personal standard of not beginning a drama until it's reached the midpoint.

Girl, this sounds like a cry for help! They say it can be a lovely or tragic path, to turn your true passion into your job!

But #1 hits the nail on the head for me like whoa! I am just really terrible at finishing dramas...though over the past couple months I'm doing better.

#19 You stop following any kdrama-related news, and even stop visiting DB site *gasps*

It's been few years drama slump for me but this year is somehow worse. Only finished watching Secret Forest, and that's it.

JB, sorry that nothing excites you atm!! :( It must be harder for you since you run kdrama-related sites. For me if I didn't feel like watching drama, I can always do something else. But you? This feels like your whole life it must be feeling awful :(
Not sure this will ease you but hope you make peace with it. Whatever happen and however you decide to deal with it, we are here!!!!!

1 thru 6 is completely how I feel. Also I think I have gotten bored with kdrama's (did I say that out loud?) The same story line: poor girl says I'm sorry 100 x's, (take a drink of your fav liquor every time she says it you won't make halfway thru the drama sober). Poor girl gets slapped, hair pulled, threatened, money tossed at her by rich Mother of guy.
Rich bad girl temper tantrum, tearing up room, screaming, snarling,
(remove all glasses of water from the table). Rich arrogant semi bad boy, parents pushing child to marry for business reasons not love, evil Mother, Father who is oblivious to his wife's action. All loan sharks that wear Hawaiian shirts or shirts from the 80's (why?). The dreaded white truck that is the cause of all vehicle accidents in Kdrama's
(cops need to find this driver). Revenge plot that never happens everyone lives happily ever after and all is forgiven. Children who aren't biologically there's. Kids taken to orphanages, random child found on the street and raised by another family. Drinking until the poor girl is totally pissy drunk. Whenever a car hits (guy, girl, kid) the driver never gets out of the car. Evidence proving wrong doing gets deleted, stolen, vanishes. Finding out the person you hate the most is your (brother, sister, son, mother, father) The thrill is gone.
Historical drama: I would hate to be the King....someone is always plotting to kill you and Rule The World hahaha!

No 4/5/9/11 and 15 is me right now

I usually spend my time just reading the posts here in dramabeans and rarely (actually this is my first ever) comment on one. But this spoke to me on a personal level. I have been facing a drama slump for almost a year now and dramas which I thought were going to get me out of this fell short and the next thing I knew I'm back staring into space, coming up with a list of dramas I should try watching next, only to end the day just thinking about the said list.

It's too early to say that I have found the drama that would invite me back to take my daily k-drama vitamins, since While You Are Sleeping technically has only 4 episodes on its belt so far, but anything with Lee Jong-suk would undoubtedly wake me up from my long slumber. And, surprisingly, Suzy woke me up too; Her acting in this drama is bringing back the Suzy that I liked [Dream High Suzy]. Hopefully it continues to make me feel kdramas again.
Park Hye-ryun, don't fail me on this please [not like you ever did... but you know, sometimes I have trust issues] .

While trying to figure out when this drama slump began, I must add that the joy I used to have reading the recaps and meta and articles here on dramabeans has diminished. Navigating this site is no longer intuitive. I understand change is inevitable, but dramabeans was my HOMEPAGE. I feel like my drama home is gone. I miss it so much.

OMG, do you actually read minds?
I was having this since the beginning of this year and I'm so devastated :( Then you spell it out here for me. I hope this is just something temporary because I believe so.many.good.dramas. Just don't have the intention to watch them!

I am living in that limbo of not being able to finish the last 2 episodes of dramas that I've been following. The last time I remembered ever finished the whole run of drama episodes were Goblin and PU38. Even the enigmatic Eric oppa was not able to make me finish the last 2 episodes of OHY Again! And I'm not really excited to watch any of the currently aired dramas. I guess one of the reason might be due to age. Too much commitments made me feel taxing to commit myself in following new dramas. I just felt tired. I re-watched the old favorites, but my attention was not on the dramas anymore. I can't seemed to glue my eyes even when the camera was focusing on Gong Yoo's face! Hah!

But new Siwon's drama and Mad Dog seemed to pique the waning interest in me. Shall try and watch the premier episode when it aired. I have not much of faith that I will follow it till the end, but I'll give it a try.

thank you !! i am feeling this way right now. its serious enough that i might give up kdramas as a whole.... TT

That's how I felt before watching Goblin. The last time I watched a drama before Goblin was in 2012.

O.o I'm not the only one. I love dramas but that play button is so so so far away

Never seen something so accurate in my life.I thought I did these because I am depressed sometimes but dang,this hit close to home,I'm glad I'm not alone LOL

DITTO FOR ALL THE POINTS!
I'm trying to get back into k-dramas but… *finish the sentence with any point from #1 to #18*.

ME. In all levels. Because I'm in my kdrama slump I'm commenting on this article even if it is already more than a month old and nobody will even notice my comment.