Do you suddenly lose interest?

[meanbluepanda]

Let's say your playing a game or watching a TV show, do you find yourself suddenly losing interest in whatever your doing. I mean without a clear reason, but you suddenly don't wanna do/watch this thing anymore. Then start looking for something else to do, or find yourself not wanting to do anything else for some time. I am 16 and I found this happening to me a lot in the summer vacation. Where am just sitting there wanting to do something, but simply not driven to look for that something. I find myself feeling like this way too much, now I want to know why this happens.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

Yes. Almost always.

 

[Basilisk]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

It happens because: reasons.
I think almost all INTPs have this problem.

 

[Missfortune]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

I definitely do this constantly. Shoot, thought there was something wrong with me because of it...

 

[nexion]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

I think normal people might call this condition 'boredom'.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

I thought I'd contribute more now, as I didn't really have the words when I posted earlier and didn't feel the motivation to come up with them.

Yes, as nil said, it's really only just boredom. But it's (in my experience. I don't know how yours matches up) a lot more persistent than just finding a quick way of getting around it.

The word I'd ascribe to the feeling is definitely boredom, but if I were to say at that time, "I feel bored" and someone responds with "read a book"/"watch something"/etc. none of these things would seem capable of making me less bored. I like reading and all those other things that people use to avoid boredom, but when I get in these moods the sheer concept of doing them just sounds unappealing.

As far as I've been able to understand it for myself, it's this kind of hunger for something that's completely new/novel to me but I don't have any way to satiate that. I could read a new book or something, but I've read before -- that's old. I've seen TV shows, I'm familiar with all the tropes -- again, it's not a new experience, despite the possibly new concepts presented in it.

I don't really know how much of this describes the way you feel and I think I kind of lost the point I was trying to make a while back and it's pretty late(early?) here right now so I don't think I should be expected to be the most coherent person in the world right now.

Anyway, this feeling I tried to describe started hitting me a lot around when I was your age, so I figured it might help to describe it some and see if it's the same feeling you have.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

I think normal people might call this condition 'boredom'.

Is it really that simple? I have my doubts.

 

[meanbluepanda]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

Is it really that simple? I have my doubts.

I also saw this and was going to respond but didn't have internet. I laso have my doubts as I know how boredom feels like, but I can't quite explain what am trying to say here.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

I also saw this and was going to respond but didn't have internet. I laso have my doubts as I know how boredom feels like, but I can't quite explain what am trying to say here.

Yes, i get what you are trying to convey, but i'm challenged to express it just as well.
It's somehow like when you make a huge effort to cook a delicious meal, everything nicely prepared, you start the ingestion process
and it really is delicious, but all of a sudden it strikes you and you stop eating.
Anhedonia, maybe, in my case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhedonia

 

[meanbluepanda]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

The word I'd ascribe to the feeling is definitely boredom, but if I were to say at that time, "I feel bored" and someone responds with "read a book"/"watch something"/etc. none of these things would seem capable of making me less bored. I like reading and all those other things that people use to avoid boredom, but when I get in these moods the sheer concept of doing them just sounds unappealing.

Yes what you said here is exactly what I was trying to say, am bored but there doesn't seem to be anything I want to do. I usually end up in my head wondering and thinking about stuff(for example today I was questioning why you pass out when your scared that doesn't seem right while drawing circle with my mouse). But as soon as am done thinking this feeling instantly returns, and it's so damn frustrating.

PS: I've been awake for 9hrs on 3hrs of sleep so excuse my everything

 

[TheManBeyond]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

happens always and becuz of this I also start losing interest in doing shit.

 

[Nick]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

The best way I've heard it described with INTPs and their losing of interest extremely fast is that once we 'mentally' complete the task in our heads (since our Ti is firing away all the time, this is not hard for anything we task ourselves with), we lose interest because in our mind, we know the results or the job is already done.

This is why we take on new adventures all the time but have trouble finishing them to their completion.

 

[Hadoblado]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

The best way I've heard it described with INTPs and their losing of interest extremely fast is that once we 'mentally' complete the task in our heads (since our Ti is firing away all the time, this is not hard for anything we task ourselves with), we lose interest because in our mind, we know the results or the job is already done.

This is why we take on new adventures all the time but have trouble finishing them to their completion.

The motive disappears. It can be because we completed it in our heads, or it might be because of fluctuating hormone levels or w/e. I think a big part of the INTP correlate is having different motivating forces to the norm.

 

[Red myst]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

Let's say your playing a game or watching a TV show, do you find yourself suddenly losing interest in whatever your doing. I mean without a clear reason, but you suddenly don't wanna do/watch this thing anymore. Then start looking for something else to do, or find yourself not wanting to do anything else for some time. I am 16 and I found this happening to me a lot in the summer vacation. Where am just sitting there wanting to do something, but simply not driven to look for that something. I find myself feeling like this way too much, now I want to know why this happens.

I don't know for sure, but all of the things you have listed as getting board with seem to be lacking in these ways: one is a sense of anything accomplished, another seems like lack of novelty, and another is a lack of problem solving. Finding things to do to keep from feeling board is like busy work. Very unfulfilling. It's like empty calories or Chinese food. You'll feel hungry again soon.
If you had an activity that involved analytical problem solving that accomplished something tangible you your life, I think you would be less board. I think you are board with your circumstances in general which is pretty normal to feel sometimes. It's like phases you go through and sometimes it's a precursor to some more personal development in your life.

 

[OrLevitate]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

Alcohol has that effect, unhealthy diet/lack of exercise too. Just reverse the formers and your partner will remain interesting. If viagra doesn't work then heads up baboon testicle replacing surgery is counterproductive just makes me want bbbbbananas and when strangers walk by my house I shout and feel urged to rip their limbs apart

 

[doublevisionsfc]

Let's say your playing a game or watching a TV show, do you find yourself suddenly losing interest in whatever your doing. I mean without a clear reason, but you suddenly don't wanna do/watch this thing anymore. Then start looking for something else to do, or find yourself not wanting to do anything else for some time. I am 16 and I found this happening to me a lot in the summer vacation. Where am just sitting there wanting to do something, but simply not driven to look for that something. I find myself feeling like this way too much, now I want to know why this happens.

Yes. For example, I usually have 4-5 tv shows prepared so that I can switch just in case I get bored hahah

 

[Pizzabeak]

Yeah, it means you're Se

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

Alcohol has that effect, unhealthy diet/lack of exercise too. Just reverse the formers and your partner will remain interesting. If viagra doesn't work then heads up baboon testicle replacing surgery is counterproductive just makes me want bbbbbananas and when strangers walk by my house I shout and feel urged to rip their limbs apart

When will you get out of nirvana?

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

Yeah, it means you're Se

Totally substanciated claim.

 

[sonofo]

Don't fight it. When you don't feel like doing anything don't do anything, Just sit there until you realize the purpose of existence or a desire manifests itself.

Perhaps if you sit there long enough you will reach enlightenment? or go insane. It's a win/win situation.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

I thought I'd contribute more now, as I didn't really have the words when I posted earlier and didn't feel the motivation to come up with them.

Yes, as nil said, it's really only just boredom. But it's (in my experience. I don't know how yours matches up) a lot more persistent than just finding a quick way of getting around it.

The word I'd ascribe to the feeling is definitely boredom, but if I were to say at that time, "I feel bored" and someone responds with "read a book"/"watch something"/etc. none of these things would seem capable of making me less bored. I like reading and all those other things that people use to avoid boredom, but when I get in these moods the sheer concept of doing them just sounds unappealing.

As far as I've been able to understand it for myself, it's this kind of hunger for something that's completely new/novel to me but I don't have any way to satiate that. I could read a new book or something, but I've read before -- that's old. I've seen TV shows, I'm familiar with all the tropes -- again, it's not a new experience, despite the possibly new concepts presented in it.

I don't really know how much of this describes the way you feel and I think I kind of lost the point I was trying to make a while back and it's pretty late(early?) here right now so I don't think I should be expected to be the most coherent person in the world right now.

Anyway, this feeling I tried to describe started hitting me a lot around when I was your age, so I figured it might help to describe it some and see if it's the same feeling you have.

Same for me, just like you said it. I get it in different degrees. When it's really bad it's highly unpleasant, like some mental form of Akatisia. I try to solve by either forcing myself to watch a movie/series or read a book until I regain interest or by doing something I should be doing that's boring (like figure drawing) since everything feels boring anyway.

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

Don't fight it. When you don't feel like doing anything don't do anything, Just sit there until you realize the purpose of existence or a desire manifests itself.

Perhaps if you sit there long enough you will reach enlightenment? or go insane. It's a win/win situation.

Take a nap. You don't even need to go into full sleep mode. Just find the quietest place you can, drown out intruding noises and get into a state where your subconscious leeks in. 15-20 minutes of that has done the trick a lot of the time (not always) for me. It may not reignite the interest in what I was doing but I've at least felt like doing something afterward.

 

[someoneshady]

Take a nap. You don't even need to go into full sleep mode. Just find the quietest place you can, drown out intruding noises and get into a state where your subconscious leeks in. 15-20 minutes of that has done the trick a lot of the time (not always) for me. It may not reignite the interest in what I was doing but I've at least felt like doing something afterward.

I've been tuning out for half an hour or so. It gives me the energy to go out when I feel too uninterested to socialize with people. This usually works for me

 

[pjoa09]

It's usually when happens when I am completely engaged by an activity and someone just snatches it away from me. I just don't enjoy it after that even when it comes back.

 

[TheManBeyond]

From what i've experienced this shit stop happening when you have a gf, right now i broke up with her after 2,5 years of relationship and boredom shit started happening.

When i was with her every little piece of shit made sense, everything made me happy, i hardly got bored and not becuz we did tons of extraordinary shit but becuz watching series, movies, going on a walk, etc was totally different. Plus, we set some goals, like travelling to x, and to y, etc. Having a goal set in the horizon was really important for me.
I fucking cared so much for her, i believe this is the only way i feel useful like Kimimaro from Naruto haha.

Right now everything that comes to mind to stop being bored seems to be stupid, kinda absurd. I was thinking about travelling to Kyoto, i've thought of entering a gym (something i know i would give up becuz of my extreme lazyness), i've thought about learning japanese, buying a new car.
Tons of shit i haven't paied attention before.

 

[Brontosaurie]

yes, a lot, especially in situations where

 

[Emerson]

Rarely anymore.

I've found that when you start to align yourself with who you want to become, you tend to stop losing interest in things around you.

I, for example, around this time last year didn't really aspire to have any desirable characteristics; basically meaning, I didn't care if I was perceived as arrogant, narcissistic, moody, or what have you. It wasn't until just recently that I decided to stop playing games and grow up, in a sense.

Once I started doing what I said I was going to do, stopped making excuses, and started becoming the person I otherwise would've admired, everything became more clear. I can focus on what I want to focus on and not be distracted so much.

When thoughts pop up, I can quiet them down without using up too much willpower.

I suppose, as Levi said to Eren, I simply do what I will regret least at the end of the day; though I might be confusing this topic to be one of losing interest in goals with the implied topic of losing interest in random, unimportant activities. Yet I guess what I said still applies.

 

[excelsior]

i'll be in a shop or maybe at an art gallery or something (i'm thinking of a specific example here), i'm walking around for a good half hour quite happily, and then all of a sudden i'm bored as hell and virtually run out of the place.
When i'm with my friends they never get it.
It happens in conversation to, when i just get so bored and want to leave or change the subject just like that. . .i sometimes do, but it's not exactly socially acceptable.

 

[The Gopher]

Yeah actually I have a lot to say about this. Turns ou

 

[Jaffa]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

I thought I'd contribute more now, as I didn't really have the words when I posted earlier and didn't feel the motivation to come up with them.

Yes, as nil said, it's really only just boredom. But it's (in my experience. I don't know how yours matches up) a lot more persistent than just finding a quick way of getting around it.

The word I'd ascribe to the feeling is definitely boredom, but if I were to say at that time, "I feel bored" and someone responds with "read a book"/"watch something"/etc. none of these things would seem capable of making me less bored. I like reading and all those other things that people use to avoid boredom, but when I get in these moods the sheer concept of doing them just sounds unappealing.

As far as I've been able to understand it for myself, it's this kind of hunger for something that's completely new/novel to me but I don't have any way to satiate that. I could read a new book or something, but I've read before -- that's old. I've seen TV shows, I'm familiar with all the tropes -- again, it's not a new experience, despite the possibly new concepts presented in it.

I don't really know how much of this describes the way you feel and I think I kind of lost the point I was trying to make a while back and it's pretty late(early?) here right now so I don't think I should be expected to be the most coherent person in the world right now.

Anyway, this feeling I tried to describe started hitting me a lot around when I was your age, so I figured it might help to describe it some and see if it's the same feeling you have.

I’m quite happy that I’ve read this. It started with me when I was 13/14, this incurable boredom that couldn’t be satisfied. I’d be at home, playing on my computer. I’d become quickly bored.... then I’d try to find something to fill that void. So then I’d go out, meet people from school (there was a park near where I used to live where everybody from school would hang out / play football etc) and instantly decide that this wasn’t what I wanted to do, it wasn’t satisfying my boredom. I’d then go home to go back on the computer, which would still fail to itch that itch. The only time I don’t feel like this is when I have something new to obsess over.

Infact, I don’t think boredom is the right word for it. It was just a feeling of emptiness, how I had so much that I could do but none of it appealed to me – that isn’t boredom... boredom is having nothing to do at all.

 

[Jennywocky]

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... Infact, I don’t think boredom is the right word for it. It was just a feeling of emptiness, how I had so much that I could do but none of it appealed to me – that isn’t boredom... boredom is having nothing to do at all.

Yeah, I identify with that. I have lots of things I could do as well, but when the intensity drops, it can all just feel empty and meaningless in the big scheme and I lose the drive to continue.

 

[Teax]

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The only time I don’t feel like this is when I have something new to obsess over.

most recent: this forum. the intensity is finally dropping though, it was starting to interfere with RL. come to think of it I love the fact that I loose interest. It's the drive that forces me to try everything, learn everything... without it I would be probably be still stuck playing the same videogame everyday like my peers.

Infact, I don’t think boredom is the right word for it. It was just a feeling of emptiness

agree on that. boredom is caused by rules forcing you to sit still. but when the futility of your current obsession becomes apparent even if the actual task seemed so fullfilling in the beginning... it's like an existential drop.

 

[Jaffa]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

most recent: this forum. the intensity is finally dropping though, it was starting to interfere with RL. come to think of it I love the fact that I loose interest. It's the drive that forces me to try everything, learn everything... without it I would be probably be still stuck playing the same videogame everyday like my peers.

But that doesn't mean you can stop posting and abandon us.... I often see my friends on Steam playing the same game over and over. Most of my games have less than 20 hours played time as I seem to learn how a game works, get an understanding of the metagame and mechanics then simply drift on to something new. Glad I am not the only one....

 

[Teax]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

But that doesn't mean you can stop posting and abandon us....

It's not like anyone will notice

 

[Jaffa]

Re: Do you suddenly lose intrest?

It's not like anyone will notice

Fe need geek!

 

[Direwolf]

Dont go teax. Im losing interest in this post as im typi