anhedonia

[myheartisastone]

One of the worst parts of depression is the inability to enjoy things I once enjoyed. I look back at the things that once made me happy and I don't really enjoy them anymore, or I wonder why i've ever liked them in the first place.

I have no will or drive anymore ... it's left me completely drained and empty.

Anyone else feel like this?

 

[jaim38]

I am the same too and I think I have social anhedonia. Unlike other people, I just don't get a "high" from social interaction. Kind of like how some people can't get a "high" from sex or other activites. I think I'm damaged in some way.

 

[myheartisastone]

I am the same too and I think I have social anhedonia. Unlike other people, I just don't get a "high" from social interaction. Kind of like how some people can't get a "high" from sex or other activites. I think I'm damaged in some way.

Not necessarily. Most extroverted people get a high from social interaction. Most introverted people do not, but rather the opposite.

It depends, though, everyone is differemt

 

[vj288]

Yes, at this point of my life I can certainly relate to the symptoms of anhedonia, specifically Social Anhedonia. I actually didn't know about it until earlier today, but it hits home with me. When I'm sitting at home I find that it's not so much that I wish I was out with people, but that I wish that I wanted to go out with people. Like, that I want to want to do things. I just don't enjoy things for the most part. I feel like I'm almost too much in my own head, and I'm not able to "be in the moment" which is keeping me from enjoying things that should be enjoyable, or that I once enjoyed. It sort of feels also that need to just "let go" and "let" myself have fun, as if somehow I am holding myself back from the enjoyments of life. I don't know though, something has to change.