At this point my life consists of me sleeping and sleeping and sleeping for crazy hours until I get mad at myself for wasting my life sleeping but still have no motivation or interest in doing anything so I’ll just do it again the next day, only thing that gets me up is work

I have had this my whole life... I get obsessed with activities, sports etc to keep my.mind occupied and fill the void but end up never wanting to do them ever again. Same with foods. Currently I go to work which I enjoy very much and gives me some sense of worth but come home and want to do absolutely nothing but go to my bed. Weekends are just torture.

Never heard of this word before, I suffered with this all my life no joy in anything and feeling sad and jealous when others are happy and enjoying life.

Wow that’s amazing. I always said after my mom passed, it was like all the color drained from life. That’s the best way I could explain what the emptiness felt like. Don’t really care much about anything anymore and the world just keeps getting dimmer. I’ve been struggling for 13 years, just trying to enjoy my children and the small things but it has felt like a losing battle lately. It feels more than depression. Life just feels like an annoyance and something I have to face every day instead of enjoy. Of course I’m grateful for my health and my children. Just wanting to vent. Thanks for this video 💜

I feel empty and kinda like I don't wanna live anymore..

Been in this state for two years and I am the most positive person around me..😄😄

I have both depression and anhedonia. I experience all the symptoms that you mentioned. It is affecting my personal life, my health, and marriage. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. It has taken all the enjoyment from my life. I’m irritable, lack patience, and feel overly angry and frustrated most of the time. There is rarely any quality of life with depression, and when you add anhedonia it becomes pointless. You want to fight, but you have no energy or motivation. They do feed off the other, it’s an endless cycle.

Your voice itself is a medicine ♥️ Thanks doctor

Your video has just put an actual name to what I have suffered most of my life. I was an active musician who "put music down" for almost 30 years. Anhedonia...

In my childhood i always thought there were happiness but after getting older i find out that there no happiness to enjoy life :(

How the fuck do I know what makes me happy?!

Went to a park with my husband, son and grandson last week. Just going through the motions, 2 hours and I had to go home and spent the rest of the day in bed.😞 I don't want to be like this.😞

I went on a beach holiday recently, took walks and looked at priceless views that I couldn't enjoy, castigating myself for being ungrateful. My doctor prescribed Citalopram, an antidepressant, to which I had a good response initially but it doesn't seem to work anymore, and anhedonia and insomnia are eroding my peace of mind. I am glad to have discovered this channel, to have read the comments from others whose experiences have resonated with me. Dr Nader's next presentation talks about ways to mitigate and manage anhedonia which I have taken to heart.

I have never related to a video so much. Every word is my life.

This is exactly what I’m feeling. It’s like my life has become a grey slate and I can’t get myself to do anything. It’s affecting every aspect of my life. Now, at least I have a term for it and can start to learn about how to get over it.

The whole video is a definition of the topic. I am more depressed listening to what I already know all to much.

Your videos have such great information. Thank you!

Today my favourite artist followed me back and although I wanted to feel something and tried to be happy I just couldn't feel anything. I've had depressions all my life but this is the first time I completely lost interest in everything. I haven't laughed in at least 5 years. Everyone even my psychiatrist can't or want to see it. When I say I don't feel a thing they tell me but you seem so positive. But truth is I feel dead inside. I used to paint and read a lot, I still paint but it doesn't feel good or anything. I just do things now because I have to do something I guess

Great information! Thank you for the video!

I didn’t know there was a name. Thank you.

Thank you very much!

Death of someone you really loved can bring this on ; my Mom died over 2 yrs ago … I cannot cope with it I feel no pleasure in anything I used to do , I am also alone in the world which has contributed to it I’m sure

Nothing is fun in 2020-2021

Hi, I've been diagnosed and living with major depressive disorder for around 23 years; same with anhedonia for around 15 years; and that's how I get by - I just live with them. They are difficult and potentially hazardous conditions to try to fight. I take whatever enjoyment I can get out of what I do. It's definitely harder now that I'm older, because I'm trying to do new things, and naturally when you're a beginner at something, you suck at it. I find myself plateuing and unmotivated to commit to a routine (I'm not good at routine or structure in any part of my life really; it worries me that that's part of my philosophy on life, and it didn't used to be, even though I understand, intellectually, the benefits of having a routine) or work through a whole course of instruction. I end up constantly redoing things I've done before. Bit of a mixture of fear of failure, "what's the point" and generally struggling to (a) remember things, (b) think for myself, or even (c) think at all, or like, monitor my thinking, is what I mean. I used to have glimpses of lucidity where I could attempt to freestyle rap based on just catching the thoughts that were in my head, for example, but now, not a chance. Things I redo might be playing the same old things on guitar, for example, and not seeing through a course of instruction. Thinking for myself might have been remembering chess patterns and going through chess principles as I played, but now, not a chance. I understand the argument, "Don't feel bad, it's not you, the conditions themselves, depression and anhedonia, are the reasons you don't enjoy what you used to enjoy doing", but it's not just that. I can't do what I used to enjoy doing anymore, like play basketball, tennis or indoor cricket. I smoked too much and ate too much crap in my late teens and early to mid-20s (still eat too much crap) which messed up my lungs and I'm too overweight, weak and in pain or at risk of injury to do what I used to be able to do on the courts before. That's what's depressing and there's no getting around it. I think I've just come to accept that I have to deal with the consequences of my actions. And ... it sucks balls. I'll always have my sense of humour though.

I don't even look forward to weekends anymore. I play video games just so I can escape my life. I haven't had friends in years, and when I did, I really didn't enjoy myself when I did go out. Felt more like a chore than anything else. Every night I just keep wondering why am I still here.

Thank you Doctor for the awesome message!

Bro your voice gave me Anhedonia.

The only thing I can still enjoy despite anhedonia is a warm bath. But art, going out with friends, reading or even sleeping is all unbearable as my dreams also feel numb

I’m constantly drinking coffee even at night my mind is a mess.

I just feel numb all the time, can’t feel any emotions and its really hard to feel motivated to do things. It’s been like this for two years...do antipsychotics cause this?

No wonder nothing works 💔

DUDE..your voice is so soothing....... U EXPLAINED everything about ME.. NOTHING EXCITES ME ANYMORE..NOT even,SHOPPING..

There is absolutely nothing that could make me happy. It’s just so weird that I’ve been feeling like this for several months. It’s become a major problem to a point where, it’s starting to worry me.

What if you can't feel any emotions at all, not even negative ones? I can't even feel hunger. Pretty sure something is actually really wrong with me. None of the meds I've tried made any difference.

I seem to be one of the few people that question why we're supposed to enjoy life in the first place.

Man...I know based on the facts and what is known scientifically about depression and anhedonia that it isn't my fault but I still cannot help but feel that there is something wrong with me and that feeling just constantly eats away at me from the inside every day. Day in and day out.

Dr Nadir thank you for your videos. By the way you should start your own ASMR KZfaq channel. Your voice is so calming. As someone with anxiety and depression ASMR is so helpful to help relax.

I have had this feeling for decades too, after a Bi Polar episode when I was 18… I am now 50 having had a further two admissions to hospital… I absolutely loved to draw and paint I trained as a designer but since the episodes I have no interest in life in general…. I do have anticipatory lifted mood but when it comes to the actual pastimes I go off the idea and just sit around… beating myself up later for not having taken the time to do said activity. I constantly fight with myself about doing stuff then I feel guilt when I don’t pursue said activities

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Great explanation. Wish I knew about this many years ago. Do you know where I can get an good explanation of anhedonia in American Sign Language. I am Deaf and I struggle to find explanation of certain mental illnesses in ASL. Do you have anything on dysthymia too? I think.I have that as well.

I'm about as low as low can be without the thought of suicide. Thats one thing id never do. But i genuinely do not enjoy anything, and feel so far behind in life. I regret so much, have a strong passion for the past, am extremely nostalgic, and absolutely hate everything life is now. I dislike where i'm at in life. I hate being a father. I just do not enjoy it. I live my child, but never envisioned myself to be in this position where i do not care for fatherhood. I have no interests in anything i used to enjoy. My environment has changed, people came and went, family have grown old or died, and relationships i no longer care for. I am not seeking love. I enjoy being alone. I hate my living situation. I am suffering financially. Inhave to jump through hoops and hurdles, just to get to where everyone else is at in standard. I feel trapped in my city. It doesn't matter where i go, i hate it. Nothing surprises me anymore. I hate being around the same environment, the same people, doing the same things. My anxiety and depression doesn't allow me to be myself. I know far too much to enjoy living in Blissful ignorance. So i can't enjoy relationships anymore knowing everything i know now. I feel numb. Trapped. Stuck. Nowhere to go. Imprisoned. I understand it's a mentality thing. I'm very into psychology. But even i need help in these areas. No matter where i walk, i never feel change. I want to change. I want change. I desire it. I desire a fresh new everything. I want to get away. I crave it with a passion. That's the only thing i feel passionate about, is leaving everything and everyone behind. Abandoning everything. Abadoning the life i have now, to start a new life somewhere else. A fresh start. Maybe in Japan. It's my dream. I fantasize about this everyday. For year's. For more than 20+ year's. And yet, i am nowhere near close to achieving this. I havent even scratched the surface. I am completely overwhelmed. It feels so far away, my goals... And i'm not getting any younger. I hate myself. I hate everything. Mentally and emotionally, ive far exceeded what i used to be back then. I've gained so much knowledge. The downsode is it took far too long and late in life to acquire this. I missed out ony younger year's. Injust want to no longer waste anymore time. I want to progress and move forward. And until i can somehow pull through, i will forever remain in this state of consciousness. I've tried. I am trying to move forward. But it seems i can't get there. I don't know what else to do. At this point, it's all about maintaining my sanity. No, i am not, nor will i ever be in a horrid state of mind of self harm or harming of other's. That is just not who i am. Absolutely not. But i am definitely not living my life. I am not happy. And when folks say "then do something about it", what they fail to acknowledge is i have. For whatever reason, progress isn't budging. Regardless of how hard i work for it. It's enough to drive one mad. Now what? What do i do? I have nothing else in mind. Nothing. That is all i want...

What if you have never enjoyed anything

I have suddenly lost my passion for many things I used to enjoy like traveling , and meeting new people , ive been cutting communication with my friends I don’t know why , I thought because I’ve been through lots of COVID isolation and social distance . But this is all over now , and I still can’t feel any passion for anything . I have traveled to break that Anhedonia mood , I couldn’t . For the first time ever , I felt homesick and wanted to spend my time in my hotel room . I just don’t know when I’m I going to see myself and to see the world in colours again …

Very helpful explanation for understanding the depression symptoms and the best start to overcome the depression 🙂

thank you

Recently I have this doctor,not able to focus next minute of life.. really feeling worthless..but earlier I have really enjoyed every second of life but now really worsening the situation..

The soundtrack of my life

I cooked for a living my life has completely changed I feel odd

can i heal from this?? horrible. I have a really flat feeling, nothing. I wish i could feel. Also i have a really fuzzy, confused and foggy mind, my mind is so bad. I sound like if i am okay but not inside. I dont feel fear, love, anger, joy, mad, sad. I feel NOTHING. 😩 I before was healing from something called PTSD but now i dont even have triggers. I prefer to have ptsd than feeling nothing. Please tell me i can be the same person i was 3 months ago. Tell me i can heal from this. Can you make a video about this and how to heal this. Please

Thank you. Great content. What’s the treatment ?

Are there people that are experiencing this that don't even have jobs or pressure to make a lot of money to survive? Or don't have some sort of terrible debilitating illness? Because I didn't start experiencing these things until after college and had to start working 60 hours a week just to give every cent away on bills. I dont have the energy or money to fund the hobbies I enjoyed as a kid. I jave 1 day off a week so it's not a shocker that seeing friends would be a chore. When your mind is in survival mode when your one lost paycheck away from losing necessary things for basic life, then your brain does not have the space for leisure or creativity anymore. That has become a privilege. You can't do that when there's so much pressure.

My only concern is that I hope that this is not a permanent thing or will go on for months, on the flip side I am liking it because for once in my life I am existing for me. I am not concerned about what I HAVE to do, I am not being hard on myself either and have stoped the inner critic. If it doesn't happen It doesn't happen.I don't put expectations on anything or anyone anymore. I am feeling peace. My real concern is WHAT DO I WANT.

"There is something wrong with me "... as i STRESSED 24/7.. over retirement, I was able to stop it. I was So Happy... then, i looked in the mirror with my uniform on... as i looked @ myself, and said "oh no, i cannot got back looking like this.!! ( i stressed for 15 day's! Couldn't sleep, had insomnia with Bad sleep deprivation, lost weight, got sick ).. in the mirror I LOST MY MIND..!! I STARTED FREAKING OUT! I CAN'T GO BACK! I ran to the phone, and retired myself..!! I did what? I DIDN'T want to retire, but in my Stressed, sleepless self,.. i called and retired myself.!! I cannot believe i did that!!!! I went into Horrible depression!!, Anxiety, insomnia, Regret, Anhedonia... and self hate. Im suffering So bad!! Unable to even go outside, do anything at all,.. and no pleasure doing anything i used to. How?.. how could i do that to myself?.. i did everything i could NOT to retire, then during my stressed out moment, i call and retire myself.!! How? Why?... That frame of mind I LOST it....... I cannot get my position back... and all i do is think of that moment. How i ruined my life. [ i wouldn't of had to return immediately, i could have got well first., got my weight back, seen a therapist for the stress..THEN return. But my mind redacted Negatively and panicked, i couldn't stop and realize what I was doing..).. 😮

Watch this video on 2x speed or read this summary. (He repeats things like 5 to 10 times slightly differently even though they have the same exact meaning) Anhedonia is a symptom of depression. Anhedonia strips enjoyment and motivation / engagement The stripping of enjoyment and wondering why you don't enjoy anything or if there's something wrong with you makes the depression worse When the depression gets worse the anhedonia which is a symptom of the depression also gets worse. They just keep making each other worse and worse like a loop if kept unchecked And next video he will repeat things over and over about how to deal with anhedonia You're welcome for saving you 10 minutes of your life

My situation is kinda messed up because I’m not working and it’s been two years since I’ve been working and the thing about it is I’m scared to work & the only thing that will make me happy is moving out getting a car getting my life together but im scared of confrontation & figuring things out so idk what to do i literally been praying trying everything not to mention I have chronic pain in my knees which keeps me from playing basketball i haven’t played in over three years it’s so frustrating and embarrassing

Literally crying watching it... Im 14 and all my life before this year everything was so enjoyfull but now that dissapear I dont see any sense

Bin here for a year with built up to that year fun

Yes this is me. I haven’t really enjoyed myself in a long time. It feels like I’m living just to be living.

I been having problems with enjoy things and thanks god I have a car and iPhone and Frined as Job can not enjoy but I have to work on myself with it I know it will come 🙏🏻

I had a bunch a of hobby’s and was always happy about but the last few years have just been awfull. I dont want to do anything anymore just lay in my bed and think/sleep/ on my phone. I dont look forward to anything. I went to a therapist and she just said i had a mild form of depression but it hasn’t fixed anything.

Nothing produces joy anymore. The things i used to like to eat are now tasteless. Gardening used to be joyful. Now it is just a chore.

This fits me to a T At 65 years old it's painful!((

So, after a long run of disappointment, addiction and incarceration,I have an understandable amount of apathy. But my issue is that I have an opposite reaction as far as my drug use. I'm working towards sobriety but I'm not there. So,most people are miserable minus the substance (Meth,in my case) .I can't find any enjoyment or pleasure when I use. I've been working on it myself and making some progress but I didn't understand what was going on with me,it took forever to find anything explaining it from that perspective. Any advice or material you can direct me to would be appreciated. I look forward to hearing back from you and thank you for your good work

Dear Dr. Nader, Started watching your videos a couple of moths ago. Got used to you explaining some form of affliction and always (Am I wrong?) spending an appropriate amount of time at the end talking on WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. Still a fan but this listener found you way over explaining the issue (we know if we have it). Then, to my disappointment you ended the video, the most important part, with “see you next week”! Your soft delivery and voice is nice - but remember, at large, you are talking to adults.

Struggling a lot with this. Long story short I haven’t enjoyed anything for close to a year. It’s really hard to just get out of bed. I’m going to keep trying to do the things I used to enjoy as I desperately want to have fun again and laugh.

more than 4 years, for past 4 years I'm able to enjoy nothing

The worst part is i dont tjink i ever loved or enjoyed anything. Im 21 and i don't remember the last time i enjoyed. Even as a teenager or as a kid

I'm going through this for 3years now n idk how feeling of happiness would seem like,pls help me get out of this.

I would like to read stories or novels on people with anhedonia. Suggestions? I think I might have a light form of it.

I wish my phycologist was like you,you seem to understand where I am in life while she seems to love to talk about emotions only and prescribe medications and none of which has helped me at all I just feel like I'm wasting away unable to accomplish the things I want it's so far out of reach and really is impossible

Didn’t think it’d mean so much to see a fellow BC Boy talking about what I struggle with. Turns out it does. Do you have any suggestions, or tips and tricks to find therapist that works for you? I’ve gone through at least 11 by now and I really want to be able to find one that really sticks with me, not only to not leave more in the dust due to my own personal turmoil.

Antidepressants caused me permanent anhedonia and sexual disfunctions. I have PSSD, Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction.

Four moths from now I was suffering from anhedonia, it started when I committed blasphemous thoughs in my head that I can’t control , at first I felt fear and guilty but, as times goes by I felt nothing at all, but blasphemous thoughs happen over and over again. Please help me!😭 feels like I’m going to hell.😢

I know I have this , could be brought on by loss and trauma

I can't remember what it was like to enjoy anything or if I ever even did at any point in my life. It's been at least 7 years. At this point I can't even bring myself to try anything people suggest, even things as simple as talking to myself in the mirror. At this point, it seems that there is nothing left for me except the end.

I’m going through it right now nothing brings me joy things that used to make me happy doesn’t anymore

Cd and LaDonna I feel much the same as you except I rarely enjoy work either these days and feel I am getting worse at it and other things instead of better as time goes on, but work and children are anchors I suppose as otherwise I would have even less motivation and do even less. I feel drained just hope it will be sooner rather than later that my mood lifts. However my life is busier and more chaotic than ever so I need a plan to address various goals as I feel I am going backwards with them.

I do have a cuestion regarding this, but I don't know if it will make sense. The thing is, searching for "joy" has always felt like nonesense to me. The illusion of being is a brain trick, everything just passes and eventually I will also pass. I think I have lived like some sort of complex mechanism that is forced to do things that are also just mechanic chores based on nothing but cultural repetition. So, from a very young age, that idea of joyless iterations to achieve some sort of emotion that is in itself another form of joyless, nonsensicall iteration, was just engraved as the only true. I can't understand emotion as anything else. I feel my existence as another random bunch of sensations with human format, a copy of a copy of a copy that will also fade away. The question being: can you prove me wrong? Because I truly think this to be the only realistic way to exist. It does bring some pain, but even that makes me feel nothing; deep down I know that is just another illusion.

i think i have some kind of this anhedonia, when I'm alone at home i always feel depressed and bored, i think maybe if i went out and when i hang out with freinds or poeple i love but even if i did i just feel anxious and dissatisfied with the world around me for no reason it's really anoying its like i can't enjoy anything anymore like happiness is just isn't for me... and i feal guilty because i might be boring or annoying to my freinds and ruin their day with my mood inside i want to feel better but i can't and it hurts i don't know how to be happy even if i tried i hope god help me get through this i wish life after highschool would be better than this

What if someone always do things to add excitement to their life and they do, but quickly she loses interests in all of them, and this process continues. What is that,?

I literally dont enjoy anything, i cant figure out my life because i dont have feelings towards anything, i feel like my life has been put on hold, like im just rotting away, i dont know what to do anymore, i cant even converse with people anymore, i never know how to respond, i have no thoughts going through my mind

that it explains it, i went sky diving and jet boating on my 18th and didnt feel a thing.. video games havent given me pleasure since i was a early teen, im not suicidal, but what is the point? honestly, what is the point!

And when people go saying: do excersise! Etc ....they dont know

At this point, i have my cat, drugs, and alcohol. Thats it.

Can’t find part 2!!! Can you help?

Men I've been like this since 2017 I'm trying 😩 I hate that I don't remember that well what made me happy

I didn’t know there was a name for this

Can u go back to normal or no is there cure

Can this be overcome quickly?

What angers me the most is that all I see are these "explanation" videos on what we have and the same answers to a question so delicate as "How to fix depression". I get that we often wanna hear things we wanna hear but these explanation videos are just so you can help a therapist who you have to pay to get a "treatment" that will only go so far. What makes this worse is that its extremely hard to keep depression away especially when others don't contribute to ridding ourselves with said depression. Imagine getting rid of depression having to sacrifice the people you love just to get better. I know family sucks sometimes but sometimes it takes more than yourself to rid of mental illness. Which some of us do not have because people don't wanna be around depressed people unless you grew up with your friends or significant other. Humans are too selfish to care about keeping someone from harming themselves or unaliving themselves for the sake of "Being busy" with our brainwashed day to day lifestyles of caring for famile, going to our 9 to 5s, buying material things and trying our hardest to not help someone in need just because "it doesn't look cool to certain people". Society isn't sh*t out of the idea of materialism. Society is sh*t because everyone thinks that some rich arseholes are 100% truthful and we should do what they say even though the desire for money is literally killing the earth and people in society. Imagine being worth less than an object like a piece of paper with value or shiny objects that we flaunt around.

I'm lost interest anything in my life, I don't know how to i keep going my partner without hurt her, I'm starting to losing do like we us together always do. Lose feeling toward her :(

I don't have motivations to live. Nothing makes me happy. So what is the point? I told my psychiatrist about that. He told me that I shouldn't struggle because I already had a conclusion. But I've been struggling with this for years. I have no one to talk to.Every day is a hell. I can't watch other people enjoying their life.

Is there any medicine for this? My job is being affected here. It started long ago when my mom put me in a Christian School

Please can you make a video on avolition?

How about if i never really had any interest in anything, haven't been in a relationship or even hugged for 14 years ( I'm 43), i literally have zero friends, yet i'm not interested in acquiring any interest or partner or friends?

What if I enjoy chilling out all the time? 😅

Does anyone know of any holistic remedies for anhedonia?

Which tablets can I use for anhedonia ? I am from india. I'm suffering from anhedonia

Please i want some help I loved to dance everyday but after some days now i have stopped doing it. Yesterday i wanted to dance so hard but i was dancing but not enjoying. I wanted to sing but i have stopped singing. I'm happy I'm not depressed nor i feel like i don't know what's wrong.😭 please help

i am in exact matching condition .. please help sir