david45 wrote:
Then how did I end up being obsessed with running and not being passionate about it?
I am not a trained psychiatrist/psychologist. Even if I was, I feel like there would be restrictions on diagnosing people without actually talking to them, but I’m not sure mostly because I’m not trained in those fields.
I have been running for ~15 years and I enjoy it, running helps me relax and I have a couple different groups of people I’ve met because I run so it provides tangible short term benefits in addition to the fitness, competition, motivation and structure it provides. If it made me miserable and I still forced myself to do it, that would seem unhealthy.