[wcoltd]

What are you passionate about? Talk about your passions. What do you love to do? What do you do that you enjoy so much, you lose track of time?

I love game design, game programming, physics modeling. Sometimes, when I'm programming, I'll be working on something only to find the sun has come up.

[ArtleyWilkins]

This is really an important topic. One of the most normalizing and healing parts of my psychotherapy was when my therapist was finally able to get me to get past my self-imposed isolation and get back in touch with my personal passions.

I went back to church, which for me was as much a part of who I was as pretty much anything else. I had grown up always involved in the church. My mother was an organist and we all were singers. But in the depths of my depression, I had stopped going to church, and it became apparent it was an aspect of my life I was really mourning for. That small community, particularly with the involvement in church choir, gave me a group of people I could rely on for friendship and support that had been missing.

Additionally, music has been a lifelong passion. I finally regained enough self-confidence to audition for a major symphony chorus and that involvement has become another source of challenge, friendship, and soul-fulfillment.

Therapy helped me regain the confidence to step away from my isolation and reclaim my passions. My passions helped me regain that internal mechanism for pleasure and contentment, allowing me to finally step away from therapy.

I distinctly remember how genuinely pleased both my therapist and my psychiatrist were for me when I told them I had taken the risk to get back involved with my music. It wasn't long after that I was able to say goodbye to them both and go it on my own.

Why was this moved? Can it be duplicated on the psychotherapy sub forum?

[nicoleflynn]

My passion is music and dancing; ballet is my first love; I still take lessons at 72 and always will!

[Elio]

Originally Posted by wcoltd

What are you passionate about? Talk about your passions. What do you love to do? What do you do that you enjoy so much, you lose track of time?

I love game design, game programming, physics modeling. Sometimes, when I'm programming, I'll be working on something only to find the sun has come up.

I'm still trying to find that passion. I have lots of things I can lose track of time to; I'm just not sure that is always passion. Such as pulling weeds. It becomes more OCDish than passion. Doing jigsaw puzzles are similar. Just one more, just one more... Not sure if that is passion or compulsion/obsession. It does pass the time and I am often calm during and after as long as I don't have something that is time sensitive that I am avoiding. Such fine lines.

[possum220]

This is a question that I have never been able to answer. Don't think I have one. Wish I did.

Before therapy I was adrift. I couldn't claim anything as a hobbie.

Now I discovered my browsing cameras as a younger person pre therapy was a love I held that was locked away.thersoy unlocked what was mine to claim.
So photography is my passion therapy.

[Ford Puma]

Art is my one, with writing and photography in second and third. I had always a creative side, but as others have mentioned with them, it was all hidden away while I was going through a real rough patch 8 years ago. As long as I can keep the perfectionist tendencies at bay I will keep enjoying it all.