simon
uhm
- Nov 23, 2025
- 4
i miss my hobbies. i feel like i have no energy to do them anymore, but they are what distract me from my depression the best. video games are the biggest thing im struggling with getting into again. i miss myself.
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monday?
a.k.a. Ryan Gosling
- Jul 28, 2023
- 52
one thing that kinda helped me was getting back into them without the expectation that it's gonna be fun or forcing myself to enjoy it. at first it sucks because you get a bunch of negative emotions like boredom or even sadness when you don't get the expected dopamine hit but if you manage to tolerate those emotions it gets better over time. you just gotta be easy on yourself. for example if you used to love minecraft but don't feel like continuing your megaproject you can just fire it up and run around for like 30 mins a day. changes in behavior can influence your emotions even if it feels like shit at first. i can't say that i've fully rediscovered the joy in life but i've made some progress. i can at least enjoy a few hours of gaming a day
Xxkol
Member
- Nov 26, 2025
- 46
Maybe try to watch somebody play that game like on youtube and maybe that might wanna make you play.
Dejected 55
Visionary
- May 7, 2025
- 2,644
For me, I'm not sure I ever enjoyed my hobbies because I was always experiencing them alone. They were just things to fill the time and technically mask my misery by helping distract me... but I never truly enjoyed hobbies that I tried to have.
Now I find myself not even wanting to use a hobby for distraction, because I'm too self-aware of what I'm doing... not enjoying them, just filling time... and I'd rather just be honest and not waste the money and just experience the time organically and suffer however I'm going to suffer.
SASU-KE
Wizard
- Nov 26, 2025
- 635
I was the same. I used to love gaming more than anything else at a point of time. Now, it's not just that. Pretty much everything has fallen by the wayside.I'm in the same boat. I've just been in bed today. Dont want to do anything. I just had a pizza though.Last edited:
Zyntkalla
Welcome to hell on Earth
- Aug 28, 2020
- 215
Same for me.I've been thinking of my situation quite a bit, and it doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere.And I have tried, and i'm starting to really lose hope. At this point, hobby is just a filler I do enjoy some of them but it doesn't really seem true enjoyment.
vitbar
Escaped Lunatic
- Jun 4, 2023
- 579
If I return to hobbies after a long break they feel weird and difficult. It makes me want to stop. It's worse than starting a new hobby because you don't expect it / remember not finding it like this. Always takes me some time and actively pushing past the discomfort. Got to get used to doing them again.
simon
uhm
- Nov 23, 2025
- 4
nocatwaslost
free hugs
- Dec 7, 2024
- 75
I enjoyed gaming as well but found that games I liked in the past no longer give me joy. So I went back to classics I always rejoice in or started with especially Indie games.
beyond.space
"an elegant suicide is the ultimate work of art"
- Oct 30, 2025
- 48
this is maybe going to sound weird, but ive found out (quite late in my life unfortunately) that this is what works for me. i have a whole history of getting into hobbies, obsessing over something and then dropping it before finishing it because of depression. i do this with drawing, writing, games, series and anime, playing guitar, almost anything that can be considered a hobby and forcing myself to get back into them has never ever worked. this year has been the worst as for more than half of it i lost ALL my hobbies and energy completely.
what ive found tho is that my brain is really just not interested in whatever im doing at the moment anymore, so i simply have to find something new, going to concerts, taking and editing photos, doing collages, decorating my room, literally just anything that can help me be creative in any way or get some dopamine. the most interesting thing here is that once i can get dopamine from something new, the old stuff can be as easy as breathing to get back into, because the brain seems like its already activated and has an easier time crossing the barrier and letting me pick up something old. it also helps if its related or adjacent, meaning: maybe i watch Scream 2 and then i get the urge to see more of Ghostface so i try picking up Dead by Daylight again where i can play as him, which eventually can lead me back into gaming, stuff like that
of course, this doesnt work all the time as my depression is pretty severe but try to do some brainstorming and see what adjacent stuff u can find, new stuff, go to a western themed pub, watch a Western when back at home and then start playing Red Dead Redemption 1 or 2, immerse yourself in new worlds
