How do you solve lack of passion and interest??

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salahudeen: how long have you had these symptoms for? Do you have other symptoms like increased/decreased appetite? weight loss? decreased concentration? suicidal ideation? feelings of guilt/worthlessness? Does your family have history of depression? or other mental illnesses? If yes, then you need to see a doctor immediately, you could be having a major depressive disorder.
 
salams akhi that is normal. i suggest to stop having deep thinking too much.

firstly do something you think that doesn't stress you much thats strained you. like spending time with family, reading books, cycling, outing and etc.

InshaAllah you energy will come back and you will start having interest again :)
 
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salahudeen: how long have you had these symptoms for? Do you have other symptoms like increased/decreased appetite? weight loss? decreased concentration? suicidal ideation? feelings of guilt/worthlessness? Does your family have history of depression? or other mental illnesses? If yes, then you need to see a doctor immediately, you could be having a major depressive disorder.
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Since 15/16, just don't want to do anything, nothing captivates my interest, and without interest its impossible to learn, so just scraping through in uni, I don't have an appetite, I don't get hunger pains, I only eat cos its the normal thing to do :hmm: I do find it impossible to concentrate on a specific task without my mind wondering off also, feeling of worthlessness exists quite often, my mother is bi polar she's on medication, when she stops it she has days where she's really happy and others where she's really low, the really happy days are more than the low days but eventually she'll have a psychotic episode if she stops her medication.



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Salam, im suffering the same as salahudeen and i just want to ask you hows it going brother? I really need some help to get motivated too, lack of passion, i only play videogames, thats my passion.. But i pray namaz and so but still i cant get motivated and i lost interest in football also and so.. ive become unsocialized, i talk less and listen much dont like to have guests when my mom brings her friends or cousins.. subhanallah.

So salahuddeen hows it going?
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It's the same, yeah I'm the same with regards to the video games lol, same here with the football and unsocizalized thing,
I don't talk at all in social gatherings.
 
Assalam alaikum,

I feel the same sometimes. You know how I get motivated? When I see my friends. Sometimes I dont go out for days, just when I need to, but then when I meet up with my friends, we end up talking a lot about things we could do. And then we arrange them and meet up. Like sometimes we talk about cooking/baking and we meet up and cook. Or talk about watching a movie and then it happens. Ok sometimes (mostly) the plans dont always work out but we still end up meeting and talking.

I think socializing with people is a big motivator. A few years back I would not have said this, I hated meeting people and I didnt see the need to meet friends unless it was to do work, but now I have changed my mind :D
 
I think I'm becoming a little like this, I have deadlines to submit work, and a couple of tests to take but I feel really really demotivated to do any of it. I just look at the pile and get put off and abandon it even more. I know I'm going to regret this later on (or not) if I don't do it now but I just...can't be bothered =/
 
So i see many of us has that problem.. I hope we can all work together somehow :/.. May Allah help us all! Ameen.
 
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Brother Salahudeen, you already know that you and I are similar in a lot of ways.

I am a chronically lazy individual. I am very much the stereotype of the "lazy American" that is perpetuated in popular media (even among us Yanks ourselves). I have always been this way, as far back as I can remember. My favorite pasttime is to do nothing. When I am not at work (and sometimes when I am), I find ways to do as little as possible.

I despise any semblance of physical activity. When I was younger, I played basketball and socer. I hated practicing. I hated learning plays. I hated conditioning. The only reason I was involved was partly because my parents "encouraged" me to play (they signed me up for it) as a way of getting me out of the house. While I did enjoy those activities, it was mainly a way for me to spend time with my friends after school, and not because I had a passion for the game.

After high school, I hardly did anything for almost a decade. I used to have really bad anxiety issues about being around other people, and would hardly leave the house. Depression is something I have battled off and on for almost 20 years, and it was really bad in my teens and 20's.

There is a phrase in Chinese which of course I don't speak, but the rough English translation is "grief over fat thighs". In other words, depression from a lack of activity. Maybe that's what we are dealing with here. I don't know. Even when I was active, I still never had much motivation or passion for anything.

I still hate exercise and don't work out, but I am currently seeing a therapist for my self-esteem and depression issues. I also try to pray daily and ask God to help me get out of this funk and become the man I am supposed to be.
 
salaams
from someone who does have bipolar disorder.. if this is a constant problem lasting more than a few days.. i would suggest even running things by your regular doctor... thyroid issues and diabetes can cause some of the problems.. and so could major depressive disorder, chronic depression.. the start ( allah forbid) of bipolar disorder.. only said cause i would wish it on anyone.

Please be easy on yourself.... and be safe....
Serena
 
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I probably should have been medicated for my issues when I was younger, but I wasn't. I was too afraid to say anything to my parents because I didn't want to be labelled as a "crazy person".

I did a pretty good job of hiding my unhappiness from my family. They knew that I was unhappy at times, but I don't think they realize even today just how deep my anger and depression was in those days. I thought of suicide for a while, but I was (thankfully) always too afraid to try anything.
 

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