If you have anhedonia, do you still like watching movies and TV?

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Did anhedonia kill your enjoyment of television and movies, or do you still like to watch?

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I don’t really enjoy watching tv or movies. What’s actually more troubling for me is it also makes me not enjoy music, which is something i usually enjoy more than tv or movies.

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The only thing I really enjoy is food

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I used to have my shows and movies that would make me happy and that I’d watch all the time. Not anymore. I miss it.

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I still watch movies and read books and watch shows, just not as often as I would had I not been sick. Now real life things seem more important than stories and fictional stuff.

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I can watch news for about an hour. I can still watch Cincinnati reds baseball. and boston Celtics basketball. that’s about it, I don’t enjoy television like I used to.

im thinking about turning my room into a entertainment room for movies and ballgame. back when I watched movies it was always zombie movies, or suspenseful stuff, or fantasy like stars wars lord of the rings.

I guess I still like to watch some movies and sports but I don’t do tv shows

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I don’t really enjoy tv shows or movies anymore.
I barely listen to music unless I’m on the manic side.
So sad.

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I go through phases of listening to music :notes:

But I don’t watch TV or movies :movie_camera:

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Not really, I feel like they’re a waste of time. I can’t stand commercials anymore.

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No tv doesn’t do it for me and I can’t stand movies for so many reasons.

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I almost never watch movies or t.v. and I’m never bored. I love to read that is why.

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i would say yeah it reduces enjoyment for sure. i have to convince myself itll be worth it to watch.

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We’ve had threads in the past about how the TV isn’t entertaining anymore and sadly I still watch it but not nearly as much as I used to I just don’t get as much out of it anymore

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I also subscribe to this freaking Hulu and I barley use it

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I never have anhedonia. Sometimes I don’t like tomwatch anything or listen to music…but I can’t say I have times when I don’t enjoy anything.

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Sometimes I do. Tonight, I watched two episodes of a TV show, and I liked them. My SO wanted to watch a third, but it had just gotten too gray for me, so I said no. As a general rule, I don’t watch TV on my own; someone else has to initiate it, or it won’t even cross my mind to.

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I don’t watch tv or movies. I don’t enjoy them. I usually go on the computer instead. It’s where I get all my news.

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No but concentration did.

I’m stable as but I find that I don’t watch many movies. It’s just too hard. I watch a lot of reality tv and sport. That doesn’t mean I’m a redneck it just means I have the concentration of a goldfish and it’s hard to explain to people.

It’s not anhedonia. I still experience pleasure…it’s just not in those realms and it could be a little different.

Anhedonia is a complex thing like most negatives. Isolate the experience and see what meds may help!

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I just turn it on for distraction. I don’t watch carefully. I check my phone, or I listen to music at the same time. I don’t pay attention

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