Anyone here "loose" their obsessions?

[stephanie.akridge.4]

I don't want to think of them as "obsessions" so much as interests since when I was a teenager, my Dad (an NT) would see them as things to try to use to bring me down whenever I did something to trigger his anger.
Now that I'm an adult, he really hates the idea of me doing more "adult" things. But IMHO, he just needs to understand that I didn't ask to be autistic and he shouldn't try to force me into a life that I don't envision for myself.[emoji3]

 

[stanmgk]

I'm always very obsessed with something, but it happens mostly for a short time and high intensity.
It probably has something to do with energy: right now, I'm very tired. I have things from school to do and I don't even want to do it. If I didn't have any tasks to do, I don't think I was going to have the same focus in interests.

 

[Antonio]

I often get tired of one interest and take some time before I find another one. Those times can be really depressing. It's important to keep doing something even if it's not a special interest.

 

[Lukas]

I have exploited some of my passions/obsessions... i.e. Art and Aesthetics....

but others, such as my obsession with the past, I have tried very much in vain to rid myself of.

 

[SyAn]

I used to be into reading books big-time, ever since I can remember.

Then it gradually stopped. Like one day I realise that I didn't read anymore, hadn't read a book in weeks. I tried, went to the library, nothing, nada, zilts. Just wasn't interested in any book. Couldn't be bothered.

It was scary.

I didn't think of depression, I wasn't sad, just felt numb. In hindsight I suspect I just kind of shut down because I felt overwhelmed, and this appeared the least 'disruptive' way of dealing with it.

This went on for probably a couple of years.
Now I'm back into reading ))))

 

[Zjezdzaj]

I switch obsessions after a period of time has passed but they tend to stay within the same category. (Comics, cartoons and supernatural TV-shows (completely useless obsessions))
The cycles last between 6 months to 2,5 years and are reoccurring; so once an obsession has run its course I completely abandon it for a few years and then suddenly pick it up again.

 

[Wooaspie]

The quote by Albert Camus: That we don't realize we expend tremendous amounts of our energy trying to be normal. I go through periods when work is slow or I change jobs and in between I have lots of free time. At these times I experience a lot of growth in the areas that are my main ongoing focus! It's when my life gets busy and I have to try and fit myself into the rush of things and the time constraints and forcing my thoughts and attention on these things that exhausts me. My mind burns out because I'm forcing it to focus on these things I have no motivation to do and no interest in doing but I must do them to earn money for a living. My mind is trying to function to its natural ability but the life I'm living is not allowing it to do so. I have been working on cutting down on working and mediating my busy life. The more I slow my life down the more my mind finds its pace again. As for short term interests and obsessions, these usually happen when I come across something I don't know or haven't done and I obsess over it until I understand it and then i am no longer obsessed. Unless it fits into my long term obsessions and interests then it stays. So yes I lose my favorite obsessions when its to busy, but they always come back.

 

[Militantbuddhist]

In my experience I loose interests/obsessions when I am, or about to be depressed. It's one of the red flags I operate with in my life

 

[silvia95guy]

I defiantly relate to this, my obsession was always with racing. I even have a racing simulator, and I use to spend hours on it! Then I have it up, at least to an extent. I wouldn't say my depression is what caused it, or maybe my depression has shifted personalities, and taken on different aspects of presenting its self. I just have a lack of interest in anything I use to be passionate about. I hope this is just a phase... I really enjoy racing and designing, but like others have mentioned, I'm dependent on my mood, and what it feels like doing. Which most times now, is sit there in silence and do nothing.

 

[ImAnAspie]

When Oracle took over and killed Sun Microsystems, that brought to an end, a ~15 year Special Interest. I felt lost and fell into deep depression to the point I had to be hospitalised.

I tried for months and months to find a new Special Interest. Every new interest only lasted 3 months to the dot. You could practically set your watch by it. (Carabiners have always been off interest to me and still are - even though the rock climbing isn't. They're strong and shiny and can support a truck

Then, for some unknown reason, I developed an interest in Myna birds. A common bird in my area that have been around me for ever and never even looked at. Now Mynas have been a Special Interest of mine for over 2 years.

The one thing I learned out of all that was, you can't pick your Special Interests. They have to pick you!

 

[Voltekka_MK3]

I wouldn't say their obsessions but rather interests.

After some time, when I realize how much I have grown and developed and how much my intellect has increased, certain things I start to see differently when I used to enjoy them.

For example, I was highly into Log Horizon the anime. It looked promising, the main protagonist was an Intelligent and strategic individual. He seemed interesting and the story seemed to have me interested.

Looking at it now, boy oh boy have I been wrong. I am glad that I grew a lot more to realize that the anime was nothing special. It had used typical tropes,cliches,paper-cut-out characters,generic plot and an uninteresting and boring visual style. I just realized it was a generic anime that wasn't special at all and I could tell it was made with the intention of indoctrinating children due to how easy it was to spot what the characters were like.

I would say nowadays I am more realistic,have achieved more,wasted less time,require more intellectual stimulation,have a clear goal in life and I can see through shallow or generic works which would waste my time.

So I would say that the more intelligent you grow, the more you realize how pointless and how uninteresting some of the things you enjoyed are and the more you realize what really matters and sets your passion ablaze that you had under the radar.

The one thing I really enjoy more than anime and one thing that has grown is gaming. Gaming requires the skill,drive and intellect to succeed in competitively. It is also something unpredictable which I enjoy because I can expect new things. Gaming is always a surprise and is something that hasn't died down, if anything the fire grew more.

So I would guess certain types of Anime (Not all, I just enjoy the very heavy intellectual and philosophical types of Anime like say Psycho-pass) but I grew out of the light-heated shounen Anime's where the main protagonist is the good guy who always wins with nakama power. I prefer the more realistic and more interesting characters who are interesting and aren't perfect and don't use the Nakama power to win but rather use their skill and intellect to win (Death Note,Hell-sing - Hell-sing ultimate,Gantz (Awful ending which ruined it),Cowboy Bepop, Akira, Casshern sins etc.).

Also if its comedy it should be dark comedy since I really can't laugh at light-hear-ted humour because its so boring to me and it has its "gloves on" and is not witty or satirical.

To me shounen anime is like Micheal bay to movies. Very shallow,predictable,uninteresting and full of cliches and tropes coupled in with mediocre to poor execution.