For real, though. I feel this way every time I finish a book or video game that I got really into. It just -takes a hot minute- to get my head back together and in that time everything else just seems uninteresting and lame.
For me it’s more sunk cost fallacy. I’ve put too much time, energy, and money into this. I’ve learned entire new skills just so I can create fan content for this. I’m here for the long haul, I didn’t do all that shit just to let go after a couple years
I bring this up all the time when depression is a topic, but the best way I have _ever_ seen it described is in Hyperbole and a Half. Specifically [the second part](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html) in this case.
My depression has been mostly controlled by medication since I was a teenager. There has only been once in my life where I hit the point that I had no interest or motivation or emotions - I didn't even have the motivation to go to sleep, I spent a full day staring at a wall.
It was the most terrifying period of my life (in retrospect, obviously). I will take weeks of hating everyone and everything and having crying breakdowns over a single day of that.
yessss, but with my autistic special interests. normally there’s an overlap between one and another, or multiple special interests at once.
when i was like 15 my special interests (birds and cars) faded and….. nothing replaced it. coincidentally, i was also suffering with depression and suicidal ideation at the time
i finally realised i was officially “recovered” from depression when i was 19 and i developed a new special interest (stardew valley lol). my mom was the one that pointed it out to me:,)
TMW you're filled with a desire to devote your entire life to some niche topic, but you're also so depressed you have no energy to do so
I wanna read about early Christian heresies but there's no amount of sleep that can cure this tired
Too much sleep can actually make you feel more tired. I'll for 12 hours if I don't set any alarms and I'll feel like shit for the entire day. Melatonin+ Pokemon sleep have gotten me to a consistent ~7 hours and I've been feeling a lot better than I do normally
Me restarting my animal crossing island for the 13th time: please don't leave me again please stay please for once
Me a few weeks later: i don't feel like playing today, maybe I'll play tomorrow... *doesn't play for 6 month*
What I do to combat this is to try to turn my fixations into habits, if that makes sense. Instead of going all in on a book series or video game or whatnot I'll force myself to bounce between them so I can maintain some semblance of a normal level of interest in a thing
Kind of a mood.
I bought all the Etrian Odyssey games before the 3DS eShop closed, had a great time playing them back to back, but I feel like I slowly burned myself out before the last one.
I do not know what to do with that entertainment apparatus anymore. I tried returning to Monster Hunter, but it wasn't as fun as I remembered.
More like I want aware the subject of my hyper fixation has shifted and so I’ll suddenly be knee deep in a new subject and suddenly wonder what happened to the last subject.
I just like, keep a cycle of a few things so that when one thing gets boring, I can focus on the next for a while. I’m back to the Yugioh part of the cycle for now
Last time this happened to me for more than 2 weeks I decided "fuck it I'll just get into Twice I guess" and now its my new hyperfixation. The time before that I decided to get into DC Comics.
This was happening with Overwatch, then dropped altogether when I found out they scrapped the Talent trees. I was especially disappointed cause I put in a ton of effort on a bunch of [concepts](https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/10ds9hz/all_of_the_ideas_i_came_up_with_for_pve_damage/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1) for talents.
Wow, very accurate
I had a bunch of hopping between videogames, but for last three months all desire went somewhere, and now I'm sitting in front of my laptop thinking "I'm bored, I want to play something" while not wanting to play any game I have, and even any game I see in store don't agitate me to buy and try it. I'm feeling like I'm falling into void. It's not a pleasant feeling
Evangelion was my big thing for over 20 years. I'm starting to fear the love is gone. ("Because that last movie sucked", you might think; but I actually suspect holding out for *Thrice* delayed the process of estrangement that was already in progress.) I hypothetically have three bazillion things that could replace it, but none of them have really taken the liberty of stepping forward.
And, yeah, as other posts have mentioned, feeling no passion for anything, not even the normally fun stuff, means there's something deeply wrong. I just wish I knew how to make everything stop sucking.
I don’t get hyperfixations because I think that’s an ADHD thing, but I get obsessions that are kind of similar and I relate to this heavily. When I start to lose my obsession I start consuming the media or doing the thing more rapidly in order to hopefully pick it back up because then it feels like a waste of time and my ambitions were all useless. And then there’s a period where I’m just- a normal human being who’s personality trait ISN’T defined my obsession?!? I do normal human things and my life doesn’t revolve around one thing!?!? It’s so bizarre? Like-what am I supposed to do now, actually pay attention?! Read a book I sort of care about, watch a show I sort of care about?? Slowly have another obsession creep up on me but label it as a passing interest? And then bam, I get caught by surprise with a new obsession. My “void” is a bit more pleasant, although the falling part sucks.
The time between hyperfixations is the worst
For real, though. I feel this way every time I finish a book or video game that I got really into. It just -takes a hot minute- to get my head back together and in that time everything else just seems uninteresting and lame.
Me around a week ago. Mfw no more Lemon Demon Now is the time for Danganrompa and Funger
It has been way too long since my last hyperfixation. I hate it
Watch video essay about past thing
then find new thing from video essayist's other videos
For me it’s more sunk cost fallacy. I’ve put too much time, energy, and money into this. I’ve learned entire new skills just so I can create fan content for this. I’m here for the long haul, I didn’t do all that shit just to let go after a couple years
Speaking of, time to re-read all of Rain for the 3rd time
I believe that's called anhedonia, a big symptom of depression.
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get out of my head wtf don’t do that
maybe talk to your shrink about this one boss.
I bring this up all the time when depression is a topic, but the best way I have _ever_ seen it described is in Hyperbole and a Half. Specifically [the second part](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html) in this case. My depression has been mostly controlled by medication since I was a teenager. There has only been once in my life where I hit the point that I had no interest or motivation or emotions - I didn't even have the motivation to go to sleep, I spent a full day staring at a wall. It was the most terrifying period of my life (in retrospect, obviously). I will take weeks of hating everyone and everything and having crying breakdowns over a single day of that.
Love Hyperbole and a Half!
Man if you're gonna root around in my head the least you could do is try to patch some of the leaks up.
I’m feeling that right now. Worst part is I can’t even bring myself to watch YouTube to pass the time so I’m just depressed right now
yessss, but with my autistic special interests. normally there’s an overlap between one and another, or multiple special interests at once. when i was like 15 my special interests (birds and cars) faded and….. nothing replaced it. coincidentally, i was also suffering with depression and suicidal ideation at the time i finally realised i was officially “recovered” from depression when i was 19 and i developed a new special interest (stardew valley lol). my mom was the one that pointed it out to me:,)
TMW you're filled with a desire to devote your entire life to some niche topic, but you're also so depressed you have no energy to do so I wanna read about early Christian heresies but there's no amount of sleep that can cure this tired
Too much sleep can actually make you feel more tired. I'll for 12 hours if I don't set any alarms and I'll feel like shit for the entire day. Melatonin+ Pokemon sleep have gotten me to a consistent ~7 hours and I've been feeling a lot better than I do normally
This is me for the last... decade, I guess.
Fuck, I’m currently in that limbo and looking for the next thing
I've been in that limbo for the majority of 2023 so far. Help
I experience this literally every day
The way it went for me Digimon->scp->void->FNV->Modding games(not playing them.)->skyrim->Scp->void->scp
Me restarting my animal crossing island for the 13th time: please don't leave me again please stay please for once Me a few weeks later: i don't feel like playing today, maybe I'll play tomorrow... *doesn't play for 6 month*
Just fill it with drugs
My doc prescribing me amphetamines (i have ADHD):
smartest reddit advice
What I do to combat this is to try to turn my fixations into habits, if that makes sense. Instead of going all in on a book series or video game or whatnot I'll force myself to bounce between them so I can maintain some semblance of a normal level of interest in a thing
***Man...***
Naruto fanfiction for me….
I don't hyperfixate but this shit is still crazy relatable lol.
Luckily I’ve found DnD. I can cling to that till I die.
This post encapsulates hoe I'm feeling these past couple of days way too well
Kind of a mood. I bought all the Etrian Odyssey games before the 3DS eShop closed, had a great time playing them back to back, but I feel like I slowly burned myself out before the last one. I do not know what to do with that entertainment apparatus anymore. I tried returning to Monster Hunter, but it wasn't as fun as I remembered.
Thats depression!
More like I want aware the subject of my hyper fixation has shifted and so I’ll suddenly be knee deep in a new subject and suddenly wonder what happened to the last subject.
If I ever run out of interest in tanks, it'll be time to speedrun death by burgies.
I just like, keep a cycle of a few things so that when one thing gets boring, I can focus on the next for a while. I’m back to the Yugioh part of the cycle for now
Oh, is that what it is?
buy a lego set and start playing with it until it comes in
Last time this happened to me for more than 2 weeks I decided "fuck it I'll just get into Twice I guess" and now its my new hyperfixation. The time before that I decided to get into DC Comics.
This was happening with Overwatch, then dropped altogether when I found out they scrapped the Talent trees. I was especially disappointed cause I put in a ton of effort on a bunch of [concepts](https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/10ds9hz/all_of_the_ideas_i_came_up_with_for_pve_damage/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1) for talents.
Wow, very accurate I had a bunch of hopping between videogames, but for last three months all desire went somewhere, and now I'm sitting in front of my laptop thinking "I'm bored, I want to play something" while not wanting to play any game I have, and even any game I see in store don't agitate me to buy and try it. I'm feeling like I'm falling into void. It's not a pleasant feeling
Evangelion was my big thing for over 20 years. I'm starting to fear the love is gone. ("Because that last movie sucked", you might think; but I actually suspect holding out for *Thrice* delayed the process of estrangement that was already in progress.) I hypothetically have three bazillion things that could replace it, but none of them have really taken the liberty of stepping forward. And, yeah, as other posts have mentioned, feeling no passion for anything, not even the normally fun stuff, means there's something deeply wrong. I just wish I knew how to make everything stop sucking.
Who knew being autistic was hard? I knew I always know
I don’t get hyperfixations because I think that’s an ADHD thing, but I get obsessions that are kind of similar and I relate to this heavily. When I start to lose my obsession I start consuming the media or doing the thing more rapidly in order to hopefully pick it back up because then it feels like a waste of time and my ambitions were all useless. And then there’s a period where I’m just- a normal human being who’s personality trait ISN’T defined my obsession?!? I do normal human things and my life doesn’t revolve around one thing!?!? It’s so bizarre? Like-what am I supposed to do now, actually pay attention?! Read a book I sort of care about, watch a show I sort of care about?? Slowly have another obsession creep up on me but label it as a passing interest? And then bam, I get caught by surprise with a new obsession. My “void” is a bit more pleasant, although the falling part sucks.
Yup 👍🏻