Special interest problem- what is going on?

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I've had a few weeks of never really wanting to do anything to do with my interest, I've had the odd thought and had all of a sudden tonight I get a sudden rush! And I'm no wide awake and buzzing for information and the need to do something about it. It's happened a few times now and the rush doesn't usually last long and then I lose the rush and feel really down- to the point my night consists entierly on what is on tv and the homework I need to do. Why am I having these strange sudden surges and then dropping, I can already feel my lack of interest tommorow morning. I'm not sure if this is due to depression and its so difficult to get out of the black hole and do stuff sometimes that I just don't bother? Sometimes these bursts of wnergy last weeks- the last one was nice enough to last pretty much over Christmas but a week or so ago I got one which lasted a few hours.
Before tonight I had noticed my interest slowly increasing over a few days but it just hit me like a rocket of energy and happiness a few minutes ago and I really hate it because its hard to sleep. I also am always anticipating the interest dying away that I don't have a claiming project I can carry on with.
What is causing this! I want to run it past my psychologist but that is sometimes difficult because I only think if some of the things I have to say once I've gone home. I hope I get a chance to explain it but I really want to know what I can do to help this and is it a common thing? Will it be a 'stage' ill grow out of?

I know that feeling. I used to go through that with my own interests. If you're into something for a long period of time, the excitement/emotional high you had when you first discovered it is going to go away eventually, but that doesn't mean that you have to give up your interests or find a new one. What you need to do is accept the fact that you will not always feel obsessed with your interest and realize that that's OK and that you don't always have to feel totally obsessed with your special interests in order to still love them and call them your special interests.

Hope that helps.

I don't have this just for special interests, this also fluctuates with looking for work, eating and other important activities. I get real sudden desires of great things, Like really wanting to become a F1 mechanic a while back and was ready to learn everything to become one, starting study and everything, that went flat rather quickly and reverted back to my main computing interests.

I love the idea of branching out, and also of giving myself permission to branch out early. For example, I might ask myself, okay, what am I going to do after I learn everything there is to know about this topic, and what am I going to do after this second topic? Well, can I go ahead and do this third topic now, and sometimes that answer is yes!

Maybe it's what Amanda Baggs calls 'thermals'.

I don't think this is particularly unusual. I have a couple of special interests. Some of them are constants, and some go dormant for awhile. I'll wake up one day and think, "Gee, I haven't thought about such and such for awhile." And then I'll dive back into something that hasn't concerned me for months or possibly even years.
Something probably just acts as a trigger, consciously or otherwise.

I get this, too.