Have you quit any old hobby due to your illness?

[noname223]

I have quit some of my old hobbies. But I am not sure whether I was influenced by my illness. In contrast to many depressed people I still can enjoy my hobbies and I really appreciate that. Though in future I won't have the money anymore to do them. This is one of my reasons why I want to ctb in the future.

The one thing I thought about was watching football (soccer). I absolutely dislike how commercialized the sport has become. Many football clubs are owned by people who violate human rights. Many sponsors come from dictatorships. Many young players are too obsessed by money. I don't like their lifestyle. It is perverted how much money even young players get. This all makes me pretty sick. And I am not willed to pay insane amounts of money to watch pay-tv football. I don't have much money and it is just not worth the money. I enjoyed it in the past. But another reason is the games are too late at night for me. Yeah I have a weird sleeping rhythm.

I try to focus more on hobbies which improve my education. It is often cheaper and it appeals to something which is deeper inside myself. It is less superficial entertainment. Maybe that is too pejorative...

 

[symphony]

Absolutely. I used to enjoy some certain crafts. I had to take time off from them when I went off to residential for several months. I was excited to dive right back in as soon as I got home, and found that I couldn't. It took too much patience, too much concentration, too much mental effort that I no longer had. I was devastated.

 

[Cathy Ames]

All of them. I no longer have any hobbies at all.

 

[blueming]

I've given up most hobbies that I used to enjoy. Depression has made even the simplest daily tasks difficult to undertake, every action is agonising and I'm unable to focus on anything. Not to mention I find everything so mundane and pointless now. It's exhausting just to exist.

 

[FuneralCry]

I have not had any hobbies for a long time, they require concentration and interest. In my case, I just try to pass the time. That is what life is, just distracting ourselves until we die. I do not enjoy anything in general, life is so depressing. I do not really see myself as being mentally ill though, I am just so tired of life and I do not see my life as being worth living.

 

[_Seeking]

I used to do a lot of dance, which I can't do anymore due to all of my joint and pain issues. It adds to my depression because I always used to feel better when I could move more.

 

[WearyHSP]

That is what life is, just distracting ourselves until we die.

That's every minute of my everyday now. It's the worst!


I miss all my former activities and hobbies. I cry just thinking of all the loss. I'm a shell of the former human I used to be.

 

[ClownMe]

I've quit pretty much all of them.

 

[lonerclown666]

I cant play videogames that much anymore because they stress me more that i already am

 

[ameliacecelia]

All of them. I no longer have any hobbies at all.

Same. It hurts. I used to take a lot of dance classes and TAd one. I used to paint, do upholstery, and some wood working, but am no longer physically able to do any if those things, let alone much else. I feel ya.

 

[DontplayGod]

Trying to hold on to my hobby as long as I possibly can, I fear that I'm going to lose it and it's the only thing that brings me peace in the world at this point.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I don't really have any true illness except for being incredibly lazy and diabetic but my laziness did make me mostly quit drawing though I'm trying to loosely get back into it purely for the sake of crafting a stupid little suicide note in comic draft form.

 

[DeutscheKartoffel]

My illness is China.

 

[heirofvoid]

I don't like doing anything anymore. I can't seem to enjoy them as much as I did before.

 

[NSA]

I feel like quitting them all the time, because what's the point? But im forcing myself not to, because I don't want the damn depression winning anymore than it already has.

 

[walt]

Yeah. I used to make some beautiful things with my hands. I was very talented at doing what I wanted, if I put my mind to it.


Unfortunately, my illness just made me lose interest... in combination with this pandemic :/

 

[HitsanoEllangmainta]

Yes. And it feels like I've lost almost all sources of dopamine. You just don't want to live in that state, because it's like you're just an empty vessel. I realised that we are work on dopamine. It's like in that experiment where they cut out a part of rat brain that is resbonsible for dopamine reward system and it lost any will to do things at all

 

[epic]

Climbing mountains.

 

[Georg]

Yeah, I collected records for years. I have a decent collection. Unfortunately I lost interest and energy to continue the hoppy.

 

[HadItAll]

Yes, boxing, snowboarding, football, basically anything physical is out of question.

And I might have to quit my job because my other physical illness limits me so much there. Who knows what happens then, that's why I found this forum and want to have CTB methods ready in case things get out of control, which is likely to happen.

 

[Suine Kurisu]

i used to be pretty big into video games, but nowadays i lack the motivation to play more than a few minutes. i used to be really creative in stuff like little big planet, minecraft and geometry dash but none of these (or any game for that matter) feels fulfilling anymore. its hard for a game to keep my attention long enough for me to be interested so i just spend most of my time staring at my desktop or reading my steam library or something

i used to write and draw graphic novels and stuff too, it's genuinely been so long that i wouldn't even know where to start anymore. it seems that the longer i go on, the less creative i become and i just get frustrated and give up

 

[jamie_]

weights, cardio, walking, cold showers, reading, studying, learning, music, cycling, going outside, generally improving myself and my life day by day. i miss them all so much it causes me great pain to think about who i once was.

 

[Grav]

I feel like quitting them all the time, because what's the point? But im forcing myself not to, because I don't want the damn depression winning anymore than it already has.

I have a hard time keeping up with my models since at the end they go in the dump, but it's the opposite with my gaming stuff. It's probably the only thing keeping me going, I can throw on tunes or podcast and just work. Sports are of pretty much no interest with the money and sports-entertainment junk. Now that college football is going full in on the money grab that's dropping slowly from my interests.

 

[mongoose23]

I quit drawing and painting a couple of years ago when life got too busy and stressful. Some part of my personality died with that hobby as well. I'm trying to pick it back up and find my old self again.

 

[UseItOrLoseIt]

Quetiapine made me quit philately.
My mouth was too dry to lick the stamps.

*such a stupid joke I know, a philatelist would never desecrate a stamp with his spit

 

[iknowitsover666]

Yeah loads - swimming, guitar, socialising, dancing etc. none of them interest me anymore

 

[Krobo]

Mentally concentrating too much is my main seizure trigger. I dropped programming because I felt like I was on a tightrope, trying not to black out, go tonic-clonic, and dislocate my shoulders again, much of the time. In general, I've kept my epilepsy "under control" by giving up on any cognitively demanding activities.

 

[reiko1337]

I used to do figure skating but due to my heart problems I had to quit most sports, which made me even more depressed. I still do competitive shooting from time to time, and drawing. But I hardly have the motivation for that either.

 

[𖣴 nadia 𖣴]

Dancing (still do when I have random bursts of energy), swimming, cycling, badminton, reading.

 

[starrycat79]

I used to read a lot, often finishing around 400 pages in just two or three days. now I can't even read a chapter without getting distracted every time, even though I really, really want to read it. playing games too, nothing holds my attention, I spend most of my time looking at my desktop or at my steam library without being able to do anything. whenever I try to do something new, I find myself giving up after just a few days. I feel frustrated with myself for not being good enough, even when I'm just starting to learn or do it. everything takes a lot of effort, a lot of patience, and a lot of concentration, which are things that I no longer have. Its exhausting