It’s like you’re super engaged and feel like you could do x forever until you suddenly crash. Then you’re bored for either a second or like a month (no rhyme or reason but the chaos in front of you) until the next thing comes along. But Godamn that boredom is real and often leads to sadness. I need a why to the whole thing
Christ I don’t know if this is relatable, but it explains a lot of my problems be it people I’m obsessed with for a sec and genuinely think I love or a different type of work assignment or a hobby of some kind
not sure if losing interest is the same thing as burnout. Losing interest probably means the novelty has worn off. Burnout is more like the stress built up until you couldn't handle it anymore, leading to basically depression.
Ahhhhhh sounds like I’ve experienced both and didn’t know they had different names 😅
In my experience, I've always faced burnout when in overly stressful situations. Living with my ex was a nightmare that caused me to crash out quite hard after working 2 full time kitchen jobs at the same time.
I do find that I lose interest in things over time, and change up my main "thing" every few months naturally, and sometimes there's a gap between finding those new things, and that can be difficult. It was Gen 3 OU for a few years, now it's Mario Kart.
I can only stand spending so much time on a particular thing. Two examples:
I have to make about 20 cement blocks. It has taken more than a year. Repeated tasks are just the worst.
I set up a home server, got basic functionality and quit because I got stuck trying to figure out how traefik works with docker. Finally went back to it after about a year. Managed to get past that hurdle, even if I can't saying figured out how traefik works. Its working now and that's whatmatrers to me.
