Does anyone else not have any interests?

[WinterFaust]

I don't and it's been like this for several months now. I've dealt with anhedonia before in other depressive episodes but at least I kept trying to do something. This time, I don't really do anything. I used to do things to try to distract myself from crushing depression or self-loathing. Reading, cooking, playing piano, writing, learning something new, astronomy and theoretical physics, anime, games, great music, dancing...
I don't do anything anymore. I know the hearing loss I've had didn't help but... I'm not even sure how I fill my days. I'm kind of trying to recover but it kind of seems like there's no point. I'm coming to terms with losing the me of the past but what is there to move onto?

 

[TheSoulless]

Hope you get something to help you with this. I've also been dealing with anhedonia recently, even games feel a lot less fun.

 

[Vault of Memories]

I've been experiencing this for years. There's just a lack of ambition from the depression I suppose and the thought that it's useless since I never expect to be alive 2 months from any given time. I rarely complement myself, but I do believe I have an artistic mind, I think a lot of people that suffer from depression do.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

I don't and it's been like this for several months now. I've dealt with anhedonia before in other depressive episodes but at least I kept trying to do something. This time, I don't really do anything. I used to do things to try to distract myself from crushing depression or self-loathing. Reading, cooking, playing piano, writing, learning something new, astronomy and theoretical physics, anime, games, great music, dancing...
I don't do anything anymore. I know the hearing loss I've had didn't help but... I'm not even sure how I fill my days. I'm kind of trying to recover but it kind of seems like there's no point. I'm coming to terms with losing the me of the past but what is there to move onto?

I've been rotting in bed for weeks on end now. I haven't had the motivation to do any of my hobbies or interests either. I definitely feel for you

 

[sadghost]

I'm in the same boat! I don't have any hobbies/interests. I've recycled through a few but none of them ever last. It's the worst when people ask what your hobbies are or what you did today For this reason I sleep/stay in bed as much as I can

 

[WinterFaust]

I've been experiencing this for years. There's just a lack of ambition from the depression I suppose and the thought that it's useless since I never expect to be alive 2 months from any given time. I rarely complement myself, but I do believe I have an artistic mind, I think a lot of people that suffer from depression do.

This exactly. There's no drive to do anything at all. It feels like why do anything at all if you're not going to be here. Or why be here at all if you're not going to do or enjoy anything?

I've been rotting in bed for weeks on end now. I haven't had the motivation to do any of my hobbies or interests either. I definitely feel for you

Rotting in bed is exactly it! Just wasting away (in my case kind of literally lol). I barely even watch anything. Just lay here doing nothing, knowing that nothings going to change like this but not having the drive or the inspiration to do so.

I'm in the same boat! I don't have any hobbies/interests. I've recycled through a few but none of them ever last. It's the worst when people ask what your hobbies are or what you did today For this reason I sleep/stay in bed as much as I can

This really is the worst! I've been tentatively friendly with some people on a discord server and one always asks, what did you do today, what are your plans? I'm too depressed to come up with creative lies lol. I sleep a lot too and I'm laying in bed now... It'll be less socially acceptable now that quarantine has started to ease up

 

[Jumper Geo]

Yeah that was my problem I have no hobbies I was always busy working but that worried me for when I retired I thought I would work until I dropped but thanks to Risperidone side effects I am buggered.

Cheers

Geo

 

[AnxietyAttack44]

I had days filled with so much of everything, had no even time to sleep, days were too short. Now all i can think of is death, and its only thing that brings me comfort and peace

 

[Kumachan]

for me personally interests imply some usefulness(future) since i cant see any future for myself to strive for, all interests are falling away... We are normally scanning for fitness you know

 

[http-410]

Yes, not anymore. Especially this year I died inside and lost my interests entirely.

I don't even know if this is bad. I just exist.

 

[Squiddy]

If I'm not in group therapy, all I do is lay in the bed, sleep and mindlessly surf the web

 

[Good4Nothing]

 

[Lupgevif]

I have interests, but my willingness to engage with them come and go. Right now I'm in limbo, pratically just watching time pass since I don't feel like doing anything.

 

[BPD Barbie]

I'm stopping my medication as I think they've given me anhedonia as I wasn't like this before I started them. I know how it feels, I've lost interest in everything that used to give me some happiness and pleasure before. It sucks.

 

[BitterlyAlive]

I'm stopping my medication as I think they've given me anhedonia as I wasn't like this before I started them. I know how it feels, I've lost interest in everything that used to give me some happiness and pleasure before. It sucks.

I think I'm obligated to say this every time it's mentioned, but fuck anhedonia. It's like you're already dead when you suffer from it. I hope discontinuing the meds helps you.

 

[Blueman]

I used to have loads of interests. Been running marathons since 2002, going to football stadiums most weeks since 1973, ridiculous amounts of travelling, loved reading, watching tv documentaries and news obviously some of this is unavailable due to coronavirus but I don't really do anything now and haven't since May.Lying in bed late, ocassionally applying for jobs and spending ridiculous amounts of time on my phone and lately on this website has become all that I do apart from the occasional meeting with friends who I bore moaning about my situation.
I'm beginning to fear even if I do land a job that my mind has become so altered that my old interests won't return

 

[mediocre]

That's partly why I never pursued university. Lack of any real interest in anything.

 

[snowman626]

i used to like singing and playing the keyboard but i have zero interest in that now. i used to like listening to music but now it just sounds like random noise. i used to like watching movies but now they're all so boring and only 1 in 20 movies are even worth watching. i used to like doing 420 but now i cant even get stoned anymore despite taking long tolerance breaks.

yeah i dont have any hobbies or interests. i do like to binge eat but now i've decided to stop after one morning where i coughed up some spit with blood. i guess i'll just lay in bed from now on and practice lucid dreaming and astral projection.

 

[Valon]

Dropped out of college for this reason. Zero interests mean zero ambition.

 

[GrumpyFrog]

I slowly started losing interest in things around 5 years ago, and I guess it's been at least 3 years since I've done anything that could be described as a hobby or a similar activity. I haven't even seen a single movie I enjoyed since around 2017.

On top of that, the few interests I do have is less of an interest and more of a "weird shit I do in my free time that I would have a hard time explaining to others". For example, I have an excel file with a sheet for every year from 1980 to 2020 where I collect names of songs from the Billboard hot 100 and other charts, rate them, add comments and random trivia about the songs and performers, then I calculate the average rating for a year and make a graph that is intended to either prove or disprove that music has been going to crap for a while and show when exactly things really got bad (although naturally the ratings are highly subjective, so this have zero value for anyone but me). I suspect it's an autism thing.

 

[Lux]

I have interests, but I don't have any motivation/interest (sounds weird i know) to do any of that stuff. And because of that, I just sit around doing nothing.