suddenly losing interest in stuff

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I have a problem where I suddenly lose interest in stuff I like (usually computer games). Anyone else have this? and what should I do?

Depression? Antidepressants?

But it can also be an attention problem. I know I cycle through a bunch of phases in a year, and I've never been able to peg down why.

I have this. Probably just because it's winter, and winter is generally a depressing season.

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i have a fridge full of rotting foodstuffs that i lost interest-in after taking a few bites. and abundant piles of decomposing food in the backyard that the animals pick-over. keeps me slim, i guess.
i will perseverate on a song that just sticks in my brain and plays in fragments over and over, for weeks until suddenly it is replaced by another song.

I was reading this book on the multiverse and now can't bring myself to read it because I don't care about proving the existence of the multiverse anymore. I also feel like I don't care enough about the bands I like that I used to.
There's a lot of things I lose interest in, but I do have new interests. Sometimes I have to force myself to like things like photography, because that is possibly the only skill I have. Well, in a making a career for myself sort of way.

I inevitably cycle around three or four projects / interests. Often though not inevitably cycle back, though it can take years for a comet to orbit the sun.

As in the multiverse thing, I can get into "I have to check this out mode", thenn when I have all the answer I need I put it down.

It was very hard for one of my students [PROBABLY one amongst us] - halfway through his dissertation he reached saturation on his topic, and it was all slog writing. All for the reader, none for him - he had his answers.

He sat on my porch weeping and I consoled him which was a first.

He did finish, productive if unusual member of society.

Yea it happens all the time I usually go from one interest to another.

I suddendly lost intrest in aliens and UFO's when I found a LOT of convincing evidence that alein abductions aren't really done by aliens at all but by demons. The fact that alien abductions are stopped by calling out to Jesus for help was the smoking gun. I know a lot of you guys are athiests (I can relate because I had really bad expirences with most "Christians" to the point I am extremly uncomfortable around anyone who calls themself one today) but I still believe in God and some of the evidence was really convincing.http://www.jeffersonscott.com/nonfictio ... m#Argument 1


I lost intrest in manatees at the drop of a hat when I found out that the local zoo was going to get them but they were tearing down their old aquarium to make an exibit for them. The aquarium was my favorite exhbit and if it had to be torn down to make room for manatees I didn't want to like manatees anymore. They torn the aquarium which had been there since the 30's down to make an exhbit about Flordia wildlife and ecology....in Cincinatti Ohio. Weird.

I think meerkats are going to be the special intrest I take to the grave. I've gotten a lot of crap from people for liking them so much and that just makes me like them even more.

I'd say so. My smaller interests come and go very quickly, and when one goes, another replaces it, and then about a week later, something else replaces that.

As of the past couple of weeks, I've started taking up a much wider variety of interests than I did in the past, with a lot less rigidity and focus being dedicated to them. This has led to me picking up, dropping, and cycling through my interests on a daily, sometimes even hourly basis. It feels very chaotic, almost manic. But at the same time, I feel very liberated by not being completely dedicated to any one specific thing.

i'd just take a break....our brains are like batteries, we need to recharge once in a while...just don't worry dude...works all the time

I agree it could be a sign of depression, but it could also be other things.

I've been consistently bored silly with pretty much everything I'm doing, for a few months now. Don't know why, or how to fix it. Could just be a matter of my high boredom threshold running out of exciting things to do......I never feel quite right unless I'm pushing the envelope and making at least some headway in an area in which I was hitherto powerless, but sometimes I just don't see any new envelopes that seem worth pushing.

I've also seen how a lot of my life has been wasted in doing things the long way round. I think that's given me a reluctance to get too involved in anything big, in case I waste any more time.

Certainly the perceived level of difficulty comes into it.....when I'm wondering what to do, I often catch myself thinking "nah" very glibly, I don't want to get stuck with a project that isn't going anywhere. I've tried self-discipline but I just drift back into the same state.

If it weren't for promises I make to friends, I'd probably never get off my butt. I have a morbid fear of letting people down, which keeps me motivated, though I wish my motivations could be more positive than that.

I don't think these cold, dark winter days make things any easier....can't afford to heat the entire house so I get stuck in the only warm room. At least the daylight's coming back at last - it's no longer dark when I go home from work, though it's still dark by the time I've got back into the house.

This happens to me sometimes.

I didn't have this problem as a kid. Now, I am lucky if I can get an interest to stick for more than 2 weeks. Most people I know don't seem to have this problem and seem content with their personal activities.