Like was it through a med change, adding an anti depressant, excercise etc.
I’d like to hear from those who experienced anhedonia and if you managed to find happiness and joy about life again
Thanks in advance.
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I think its med changes that bring relief for people
Ill be completely frank with you because i have severe anhedonia
I cant feel anything hardly, i cant genuinely find anything funny, ive zero sex drive, i cant feel love for anyone or thing. emotions are absent from my life.
I dont want to risk yet another med change because the rest of the meds have been worse or intolerable side effects
I feel honestly like i have to sacrifice joy in life to be semi stable
My pdoc says its negatives of sz or trauma causing it but off meds i feel emotions, but then everything becomes a lot harder to manage
So i dont know?
What do you think?
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Just pushing myself to do the things. The more I did, the more it lifted.
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I resonate with a lot of what you say @Ducky It’s unreasonably difficult. I really know what you mean.
My doctor also said to me that it’s more likely to be the illness rather than the med itself but I try to deny that because I want a quick fix for the anhedonia.
Sometimes I think its self imposed anhedonia from when I was psychotic in 2023. I just thought that I couldn’t enjoy anything so I haven’t enjoyed much since that year.
I think it’s distorting my view of good things in life. Like nothing matters and when good things do happen, It doesn’t register with me.
I’ve had thoughts of adding an antidepressant to my meds in an effort to make myself feel better. I took sertraline out recently because I wanted to see how I’d fare- so far my mood is bad and I feel like I pretend a lot with my firends and family, I’m not that low but I have hope that my mood will get better
I just feel tired of having to go through it everyday with no results.
Maybe a med change is the only way to get a better baseline, that’s what I think.
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And I don’t advocate you to come off your meds as things can go south bad like you said but what if you reduced your meds, have you tried that?
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Yeah it resonates with me too what you say
I have to fake smiles and laughter and feel like you. Ive had this for over 8 years
I cant cope on lowering meds and i really do need these meds to be semi stable
I wouldnt wish anhedonia on anyone but i appreciate you can understand me im not alone
Maybe i just have to accept
This is the hand ive been dealt and i live best i can given the circumstances. I have severe mental illness and my meds help.
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Yes it distorts my view of living life. I cant understand how people are so happy? Like its weird
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My therapist says it’s good for me to try and organise social events with my friends to push me out of my comfort zone but also foster an environment that allows me to feel things. It’s not putting me to the place I want to be at with my emotions but it’s better than doing nothing.
I think I watched a video where they said that with trauma you have to keep doing things that used to bring you joy and in time the feelings will come back. what do you think of that?
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I think Clopixol that im on is contributiing to my feeling flat as well as my illness and trauma. i dont feel able to socialise and i doubt being in a situation i find stressful would help me.
I think its really positive that you are socialising and maybe it will work. Let us know here how you get on please
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I would search neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome
And do antipsychotics cause anhedonia in certain people?
More info there
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Pushing myself out of my comfort zone and getting into stressful situations helps a bit, even though I can’t feel it as much. And I feel that if I keep doing those things it gets easier, don’t count it out! fear means interest-got that from a book I’m reading atm.
Hope this helps somewhat
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Mood stabilizers did it for me. My provider suggested them after i was feeling flat then manic all the time.
Exercise and vegan diet helps a little
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Vitamin B12 reduced my anhedonia, emotions came back.
I think Wellbutrin helped anhedonia for me. But I also believe it may have helped to push me into the situation I am in now.
I dont believe I have full fledged anhedonia atm either. And I dont take it anymroe. I have been in situations where I was much more blah.
THings can and do change. At least for me.
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Does some of you are lonely and without friends? How u deal with that? And I don’t smile, don’t have happy emotione. I’m very sad, very fat and no one can understand me. When I speak with my parents thay take a side how they are only clever and how I don’t know nothing. I don’t speak to no one anymore. Its so sad. I haven’t got point to live.
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