I took a class called emotion and motivation but i had to drop out of it because that was the semester i went to the psychward, and then was told to not come to class for another week to let the medicine sink in. It was a high level course and the teacher was fast paced so i couldn't keep up.

External and internal motivation sound like good starts for a motivational topic though. I see your logic and it makes sense to me. For instance, i have no motivation to clean my room, that motivation has no outside, external bearing on me. However, when it comes to work I have external forces of guilt, angst, and fear of letting others around me down.

The psychological model professionals now go by is the psycho-social-environmental aspects of life. We can further divide motivation in these categories too i think, i just am drawing a blank right now. Social as in my work, environmental as in the space i live and how that effects me mentally, and psychologically, as in my own inner workings. These aspects aren't partitioned off in windowless worlds. They are all interconnected, which makes parsing them complex works.

What i think is foundational to all motivation is emotion. This deeply troubles me given my condition and everyone struggling with something like it. ((hugs to every one that is going through this)). Ideas and emotions are intimately interconnected. Even for me the past emotions of revolt or joy have a impact on how i think in the here and now because of the knee jerk responses that are outcomes of those past experiences.