lack of focus and motivation

[Ginger Ale]

Despite getting a lot of sleep, I feel tired all the time. I can't focus on anything, my mind keeps making excuses for me to think about something unrelated. I don't have the motivation to do anything, not even drawing anymore. Most of me just wants to sit at my laptop all day watching youtube instead of doing anything productive. Sometimes this feeling goes away, and I feel great about life and all that, but sometimes I feel depressed and scared about the future, and everything I always avoid. But most of the time, I just feel dull, and everything that I should be doing gets put off because of my procrastination and lack of focus. I feel like I should be able to fix this, but I don't know how.

[Ventus Fall]

I have that a lot too myself. Then I get mad at myself I didn't do anything.
The thing that helps me is to organise my life a bit. I make up a schedule for the next day. I plan what 'serious' stuff to do and what fun stuff I can and should do.
And even if I wouldn't do everything on the schedule, that's fine, but I would have done at least more than if I didn't have that schedule.

[Ginger Ale]

I'll try doing that, thanks.

[Ventus Fall]

No problem, hope it helps

Should add you need to try this for an extended period of time, and try making it a habit. Even if things are going fine again, it's always good to keep doing this.

[KairBear]

Wow it's like you wrote how I've felt for the past few years. I'm personally also searching for an answer to why I'm like this, and how to fix the lack of motivation issue. If you're like me, then even enjoyable tasks such as drawing come off as 'too much work' and almost stressful in a sense. I think we're like this because we lack discipline, at least I know I do. When it comes to productive things you have to do, try to trick yourself in your head by thinking it's a lot simpler of a task then it is. Let's say something like having to read a textbook. In your head you can think, "Oh, it'll only take an hour to skim over the chapters assigned for this week. As long as I get the point, I don't have to worry about taking perfect notes." If you're like me, then you might procrastinate because you're a perfectionist. For example, if you have a messy room, you might delay cleaning it because when you think about cleaning it, it won't be as perfect and organized as you want it to be. Therefore, you will only clean the room when a person comes over to see it, and you mostly would clean it by hiding the mess to deal with it later. In other words, the procrastination comes off from an inner sense of perfectionism. Procrastinating doesn't mean a person is lazy or dumb, it just means that they have a system they prefer to adhere to. For example, you might only want to draw when you're extremely inspired to. Therefore, you can apply your own system to how you draw, to the point where you might not do anything else but finish the drawing. Then all of a sudden you stop drawing for months. We procrastinate because we wait for the perfect moment and time to do things: the perfect mood, the right inspiration, etc. But sometimes people like us do need some discipline just to get responsibilities taken care of. That's why sometimes even YouTube can become boring, because you end up spending more time trying to find videos instead of watching them. So, Ginger Ale, how I suggest how to cure this, mostly based on how I'm trying to cure myself, is by distracting yourself from distractions. Think in the way that everything is good in moderation. You can spend hours a day on the internet playing games or on YouTube, and that's okay. But in that same day, cut an hour in between that time to do whatever productive thing you would need to do. For me, that would be school. After all, if you want your computer to last better, it needs time to cool down. Might as well use that time doing productive things. I'll help out more if you think my advice has any substance lol.

[Albie]

Depression does more than just make you "feel sad" all the time.  A lack of motivation is a big factor.  You want to do stuff, but can't garner the ambition to do stuff.  So that would be my guess.