lost all motivation for everything

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Does anyone else feel like i do? I seem to be so unmotivated from doing nothing all the time & i need help to get it back. I don't have a job and when anyone ever asks me what I enjoy doing or what I wanna do with my life, i absolutely cant answer them because I just dont know. I have no motivation like I once had and i cant stand living like this because it makes me feel very depressed and agitated. What did you have to do to get your motivation back? Am I the only one that has no interest in any of the job fields there? I know i should get a job but the thing that keeps me back is following through with it and being motivated to stay in the job. There were things I once enjoyed but now i can honestly say the one thing i like to do is be with my cat. I know its pathetic and i need to get out of this slump somehow.

I feel similar to you. I put it down to depression as it is pretty much the textbook definition.

I have felt exactly the same, although for me when I had absolutely no direction ironically I was hardly ever deeply depressed. I'm not going to say the grass is any greener in my pasture but today for me was one of those times I wanted to say F- it all and run off. Part of it is feeling that the niche it took me so long to find is turning against me and people's expectations of me to be the hero is lowering my meltdown threshold and increasing my frustration and melancholy. I get those frighteningly vivid suicidal impulses like many here do, so while I am no stranger to depression myself, I've never managed to manifest it by staying in bed, I've tried but some unseen force always causes me to get up and go outside after about an hour. I know that at least helps me muster up the energy to fight it. If it happens to work for you to stay out of bed I'd be glad there was at least something of use that could be taken from my post. Maybe I could add: don't try and hunt down your passion, let your passion find you. That might be useful

I know how you feel. I feel a lot like that myself. I'm on job-seekers, so I've got no choice but to have to get motivated in looking for work, otherwise they will stop my money. I am looking for part-time work though, because I don't think I will be able to handle full time. I would end up skiving off at least once a week, not because of intentional laziness, but because of craving to have a day to myself, because the week-ends are full of hustle and bustle and people in my house hovering about and nothing going to plan because of too many disorganised people who come round and so on.

But I can't get motivated with doing anything. I even look at the house that needs hoovering, and I just can't be bothered to get the hoover out and do it. It's too much effort for me, although it isn't really. I don't think it's being physically lazy, it's just all due to emotional pressure and anxiety and depression, and just feeling like you just want to sit back and relax and not have to worry about anything else. So, really, people who lack motivation are the least laziest of people, because the reason why we lack motivation is probably because we do too much without realising, or that we do too much worrying, and I think lacking in motivation is just nature's way of saying ''go away responsibilities, I want a rest!''