Special interest exhaustion

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A relatively long time ago, I have read an article on the Internet about special interests exhaustion. Something along the line that, while working in the field of a special interest can be beneficial, it can also damages said interest, because of a lost of control over that interest. I find myself in a similar situation and I'd really like to find that article again.. if someone know where I could find it, it would be greatly appreciate.

I have always struggle to balance my special interest with school or job and it has lead to a lot of frustration. In the end, I decided to study my special interest, but I used to keep it to myself, as my safe heaven. Almost no one knew I have had this has as a very intense interest for over 6 years. I only talked about it to my ex-boyfriend and he knew he had to be very careful on how he would discuss it with me. I made it clear I did not want him to "invade" it...

As he was really respectful of it, I slowly opened up to more people about it. And, now, I regret it, because not everyone understands what it means for me. Plus, the fact I'm studying it. It does not feel like a safe heaven anymore, because everyone has invaded it. What used to comfort me, makes me feel very bad. And, recently, I have been going through an emotional crisis and I have found myself wanting to chase people out of that special interest, to get it back to myself... like it used to be. I feel like I need to preserve myself and, for that, I need to reclaim my special interest..

So, anyways, I'm looking for that article I talked about in the introduction and, also, does anyone relate to this? Did you ever feel that people invades your special interest? And, did you manage to reclaim it? How?

Thank you.

That's a really great way of describing it. My strongest special interest was when I was in my teens before I had a computer with internet access. It felt like I was the only one in the world interested in this which made it "all mine". I studied pointless details, reverse engineered aspects of it, had to know what materials were used in it... then I got a computer and little by little saw I wasn't the only fan.

It wasn't "all mine" anymore, and the interest faded. I still cared about it, but it was more "NT level - that's kind of interesting" care. No longer feeling like I was the exclusive interested party made the passion all but evaporate. Unfortunately I've really never gotten that same level of passion back. I fear special interests may be a thing of the past for me. Sorry I don't have the answer, I can only affirm the problem.

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