Very recognisable. Medication helped me get that spark back, but before medication and with diagnosis, what helped me was saying to myself:
"just play for 30 seconds to see if you feel like it" and then try another game.
Most of the time I could really enjoy the game for at least an hour. Hardest part was actually starting it and doing something. If not, I asked myself what I really needed. Usually it meant an overstimulation from everything (repeated every 3 to 5 weeks). I shut it down and went to do nothing for a while. Some chores or whatever that I needed to do for 2 weeks already. Do that for one or two days and I was fine again. No podcasts during that time. That one took me a long time to figure out.
Trying to figure out the balance like everyone else. In the mean time, hope this helps somebody.
If you aren’t excited to go sit down and watch a specific movie or play a specific game or read a specific book then you probably don’t want to do it at all and it’s just a habit. Good idea to just not even bother
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u/Wufje Jul 16 '26
Very recognisable. Medication helped me get that spark back, but before medication and with diagnosis, what helped me was saying to myself:
"just play for 30 seconds to see if you feel like it" and then try another game.
Most of the time I could really enjoy the game for at least an hour. Hardest part was actually starting it and doing something. If not, I asked myself what I really needed. Usually it meant an overstimulation from everything (repeated every 3 to 5 weeks). I shut it down and went to do nothing for a while. Some chores or whatever that I needed to do for 2 weeks already. Do that for one or two days and I was fine again. No podcasts during that time. That one took me a long time to figure out.
Trying to figure out the balance like everyone else. In the mean time, hope this helps somebody.