Obsessed with things but then give up..?

Hello, I sometimes get obsessed with things (ex: learning Japanese, sewing) and then I just suddenly don't feel like doing it anymore. I just give up on it and completely lose interest. Is this normal?

I don't know if it would be classified as normal, but I do it all of the time. Its one of the things I do when I am especially manic. I have so many crafts and books and god knows what stacked around this house for the millions of great ideas I have...

Do you ever go back after some time and start again?

I'm like that - I eventually will start it up again: reading, scrap booking, sewing... I'll read for weeks on end and then stop reading for months. I was scrap booking, making money at and all of a sudden, after doing it for months, I just stopped. I go in spurts... Now I'm ready to scrap book again after not having done it for about 3 months. And all the books I've bought, yet to read, will be waiting for me this summer... I just go in spurts....
I'm bi-polar - not sure if this is part of being BP or not.

That is a sign of ADHD- not saying you have it.....I do the same and -I have it....

Put me on the list, too. I get into things, then get out of them, then later, back into them. Speaking for myself, I believe I have ADD, but not ADHD (I'm not hyperactive, no matter how you cut it).

I do this sometimes...but I'll usually give up because I'm too depressed to continue with it. For example, I began exercising regularly but after two weeks I became overwhelmed, and suddenly stopped. I have an obsessive personality, so it happens sometimes!

I am notorious for this, but it is because I am a perfectionist. As soon as one thing goes wrong, I want to bury my head in the sand and die of shame. If I can't do it right every time, why do it at all? I am just wasting everyone's time. etc. etc.

It really takes a lot for me to make a mis-step and then pick myself up and keep going. 9 times out of 10 I just run away hide for weeks.

I do that a lot. Like, once I got obsessed something for a little while during a longish break from school... And when it came time for school to start up again I got this feeling like this obsession (Or hobby, or whatever you want to call it) wouldn't be 'right' because things were going back to the way they were before the break. Though for me restoring 'normality' to the school stuff is part of my OCD or whatever so that might just be me.

Sometimes.

I do this with things like styles of clothes, hair , books and hobbies. I think it might be because we go through the subject so intensely in such a short amount of time we get bored of it fast. Just a thoery

For me, one of the problems is, I don't have the space to "get into" things. I don't have a room or an area of a room where I can have like some office space. Like, if I were into beading at the time, I don't have an area where I can work, keep my beads where they'd be easy-to-reach, space to move around and not have to move stuff to get to things.

I don't think that is abnormal at all. Everybody's interests wax and wane over time. It reminds me of a teenager going through phases. The new idea is initially extremely interesting and then the more you work on it, the more you just kind of get bored. I wouldn't call it pathology though, so no worries!

I do this as well, I have border line Personality Disorder, I will get really into a sewing project and buy mass amounts of fabric for the project and even set up a way I can sell my stuff, and then I get bored of it and stop. I amke up excuses for why I have stopped. I disapoint myself a lot when I do this. I think its "normal" for people like us!

I do this as well....I used to think it was because I did meth, (which is very likely in some respects), but that was years ago, stopped long ago, and the behavior remains....so maybe it's not so much the drug, but just how I am.

I've noticed I behave (do hobbies) in cycles. One hobby leads to another, abandon the first for the second, then into the third I go, abandoning the second....then, third leads back to the first again...lol. It's a regular cycle for me.
I've noticed, too, that....despite how much effort I put into my sketchings/paintings.....I NEVER sign them.....O.o...Hmmmm. That signifies something....just never really understood what....lmao.

Shangrala

I do it all the time...it seems to be like that what my life has come down to. I haven't been able to really finish anything that I've started in the last couple of years. I changed majors several times and took so many classes that I didn't finish and then finally dropped out of college. The longest I've been able to keep a job for the last couple of years has been about 8 months, even though every time I start the job I think this is it, I love this job.

I have so many little projects that I've started and didn't finish...about four journals that I've started writing in but stopped after a while. Thought about writing a book, volunteering in the peace corps, joining the military, running away, finding a new job, go back to school, etc...but I haven't been able to finish any of the things I've started or even thought of doing.

I think it has to do with the way I feel and my depression. I'm hoping if I get my depression under control I might actually be able to do something with my life and actually finish something that I've started.