Do you get depressed in between obsessions?

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Yes. It's classic bipolarism, but also, it just makes sense to me that that's how things would work for everyone. You really like something, for whatever reason, you don't like it anymore (maybe nobody else likes it, so you give up.. maybe you just lose interest.. or some other reason), so of course you feel depressed because you're no longer doing this thing you used to like. And so on and so forth.

I suppose people who get diagnosed as having 'bipolar disorder' simply go through the phases more intensely than the 'average' person (whatever that even means)

Happens all the time for me. I go through Deep Depressive Episodes, sometimes for months, until the spark for it just randomly appears.

yes but I don't think I am actually depressed, I would describe it more as a feeling of being alone- like my interest was a friend that has gone away. I said this to my parents when they stopped me doing an interest (for my own safety, I now realise) when I was younger. I said 'you have taken away my friend and you have killed them" They got me tested for taking drugs after that!

anyway how I felt then, I just stayed in bed all day, didn't eat or drink except a bit of water direct from the tap when I went to the bathroom. Also it was when I started doing self-harm too. But not been as bad each time I stop an interest since that but maybe because I was allowed to stop it gradually on my own not by force. I suppose it could seem like depression, I know each time it has coincided with doctors trying to tell me I am depressed. My doctor now keeps pressuring me to say I am depressed but I won't. I have lost my interest again which is bad cos it was biology and I'm half way through my biology degree.

I know I will get another interest again soon, but I also get worried in case one doesn't ever come. I try to find a new one or try to get back the last one or other old ones but it doesn't feel the same anymore.

I am in this state now. I wouldn't say I feel DEPRESSED, but I feel very lost and anxious. I just have no focus right now. Without a special interest my life is adrift out in space.

Thank you everyone for all your responses! After reading through all of them, I wouldn't say I am depressed but definitely have the feeling that something is "lost". I have dabbled back into it a few times since the original post and not fully back into my interest yet but also haven't found a new one. I just got a book from the library about my interest so I am hoping that it will reignite my interest in it because I do miss it very much! Again, thank you all! I love this website!

First post . Same here but for me it's always a cycle of obsessions ex: video games - traveling and countries - history - TV shows - collecting - sports and rinse and repeat. I get depressed when i don't have an obsession and sometimes i get depressed when i do have one because i read everything about it (or most of it) and have nothing left but still have the urge i end up repeating the same things. It mainly sucks changing them because i always want to do something in them like, having the highest gamerscore, traveling to every country, historian. watch every TV show , collect nearly every subject (impossible), sports statistician and making a sport website. Right now it's sport. As a example right now i have 320 tabs open of sport, used to have 820 till Mozilla kept crashing! And i have over 150 discs of recorded sporting events and at least 500 GB's. I also like every sport too and want to watch them all, which is really hard to swallow when you know you can't. I nearly went on to Animals but that lasted 2 days have a feeling that that or TV shows might take over soon though!

Tis' the life .