Imagine being so emotionally lost that you can't even cry, even if you wanted to? To even lose the ability to cry, is true despair!

Even when I’m happy and things are going well there’s always this underlying feeling of being unsatisfied, sad, not knowing what I’m feeling or lack of joy and pleasure from people, things and activities that I know I love.

I have suffered this symptom for 14 years. I've been going to therapy for nine years yet somehow I'm just coming across this word this year. So much for getting help

I'm really getting worried about myself now. There's nothing out there that brings me any drop of happiness Update : 20th of July 2023. Since this post got some attention, I felt like providing a little update, just to share the power of 365 days. When I posted this, I was at such a low point in my life. Covid ruined everything, lost some of the passions that I held dearly to my life. I was drowning in all these issues, and I had no way to overcome them. I became numb eventually, and I think that's when I came across this video and made the origial post. However, my life has changed drastically ever since I made this post. These are the things I followed, and they might help one of you too. 1. I started working out: I've never ever been into fitness. I became obese with the arrival of quarantine, and I got to a point where I hated how I looked and everything. I used to get these leg cramps, couldn't move without sweating, and I was completely hopeless fitness-wise. I got so tired to the point where I knew I was gonna die either way. I could either die being the obese person I was or try to die faster by actually trying to work out. I swear that was my initial thought. Even though I wanted to lose weight, I had no idea where to start. Plus, I didn't want to go to a gym. I'm from a third-world country, therefore most of our gyms can be uninspected, and I didn't wanna lose my life in a hazard like that. I decided to give calisthenics a shot coupled with intermittent fasting, and they were things I could do in the comfort of my house. Long story short, I managed to lose 35kg in less than 4 months. I'm 5'11'', and this transformation put me at 78kg, which was my ideal weight. I can write an entire book on my weight loss journey itself, but since this post isn't about it, I'd stop it here. 2.I started reading: So, I had lost weight, and I felt super light physically. Did it make me feel any more purposeful? Absolutely not. I was still dead inside, but hey, at least I could do 100 push-ups from not being able to do a single push-up. I knew I should be able to take pride in my achievement, but to be honest, it didn't make me feel anything empowering. So, I knew it didn't fix anything mentally, but losing that weight made me want to approach new things more than ever. If I could put in the work and lose weight systematically, what else could I achieve that way? Yes, reading! That's something I haven't done since I was a child. English is my third language, and I always wanted to improve my English, so I thought maybe reading in English would help me get around it. I started reading articles and books on various topics. There's this website called PDF Drive, and I could find lots of reading material there for me 3. I got into stoicism: I continued reading various sorts of books, and it was a matter of time until I came across philosophical books. I found a lot of interest in them than I expected, and I fell in love with this philosophy named Stoicism. Amor fati became my daily mantra, and there's this KZfaq channel named Daily Stoic which provided me with all the essential information on stoicism. Little did I know, it cured the sides of my spirituality that I couldn't put my finger on. Bless you Ryan Holiday. 4.Entered 2023: I achieved the aforementioned milestones in 2022, and when I entered 2023, I was a new man. I turned 25 this year, and I felt like I was at peace more than ever. Now I'm a full-time writer, and I actually make some decent money off it. I'm insanely driven, and my goal is to make education accessible here in Sri Lanka -- where I'm from. I don't chase happiness; I don't even think about it. I just want to make sure I spend every second with a purpose. As long as I do my best, it's enough for me to be hopeful for tomorrow. I just don't try to control anything I cannot. All I can do is react to what happens to me, and I always try to maintain self-awareness to the best of my abilities. I might have forgotten some steps here and there that I followed, but these are the most essential things I followed. If you have any questions or want any further clarifications, please feel free to ask 🤍 Am I happy? nope. Am I sad? nope. I like this middle stage between happiness and sadness better cuz I know both emotions will wear off after some time. But I can maintain this middle-stage state for weeks, even months and it makes me feel stable and peaceful.

This bloody lockdown has given me this. I am a music nut, now I can't even feel music.

I’m glad you were able to go back to the shelter and that the puppies make you happy again

why am I just hearing about this in the last 6 months? i experienced my first bout with anhedonia a month ago but I’ve been dealing with depression for decades. That was the worst thing i ever experienced in my entire life, at 67 I get so overwhelmed with this battle. The world is changing so fast and i’m totally powerless over it. I eat right and exercise daily i do volunteer work with my community but the flame in me is flickering. I have many therapist over the years some good some not so. I lost my wife and son to mental illness years back my step kids too. It’s been hard to move on but it’s one day at a time. thank you everyone 😊

After my break up I can not feel love. I used to feel the love whenever I listening to music or watching a romantic movie but now it's just nothing there just emptiness.

I’m so sick of hearing “talk to your doctor” (or therapist). With what money?!?!?!? They charge a fortune, and even if they didn’t, when can you go when you work full time hours?!?!

Boring, tasteless, no happiness in any facet of my life. Even things I used to enjoy feel like a chore. I don't want to go anywhere, ever. I have no interest in learning anything new or meeting anyone new. I only enjoy sleep, I enjoy the void of unconsciousness and enjoy the occasional dream that I remember. So I oversleep on my days off then wake up with a headache and feel horrible. It's like torture that never ends unless I'm asleep. Every waking moment is like hell. Just an ongoing, monotonous, boring tasteless, pointless existence. That's exactly what it is, existing, that's all it is. I've actually forgotten what happiness even feels like. I'm so tired of acting. Acting like I'm happy, acting like the joke I heard was funny, acting like I enjoyed something or someone's presence when I really felt nothing at all and all just to be polite and socially accepted. Food barely even has a taste. I love chocolate but it is bland anymore. I love video games but they seem pointless and feel like a chore or a failed attempt to feel something. It's just going through the motions to exist. I sometimes even enjoy certain types of physical pain and I don't know why. To feel alive? To remind myself that I am alive? To feel anything at all? I feel like this every day. I look forward to my days off from work then they are boring and I don't even enjoy them in the slightest. This is my existence and I've been accepting of it as much as I can. I can't understand how people are ever happy for extended periods of time. For a long time I thought how I feel is normal and I've done my very best to just man up and deal with it. I didn't know there was even a word for it and honestly I don't care much anymore because I'm so accustomed to it. I heard once that life was just suffering and I believed it because I've felt this way ever since I can remember. Well, I'm tired and I have to work in the morning so rant over.

I'm 46 and have had this since I was 14. That was when I felt a complete loss of hope and only felt a cold emptiness blow through my heart. I didn't know what it was and mental & emotional health wasn't openly talked about as much as it is now - if it was, it was generally viewed with suspicion and fear, like talking about the monsters under the bed. As a result, I kept this to myself which was the worst thing I could do. I have never felt love nor happiness and generally have refused to have relationships with other people simply because I have no love to offer. But that's the way it is for me and that's that.

I live with this everyday. Severe anhedonia, nothing else matters

i didnt know this was such a common thing. i was actually starting to worry. I just feel so emotionally flat all the time and its been building up to just being a all the time thing. I also have almost zero interest in things i normally loved like gaming. And along those lines i could get so into a game i could mentally visualize creative characteristics about a character i play as in a game or the environment they are in or role play. But since 5 months ago when all this started thats all been impossible. I still do things i used to love but its not the same. I almost dont feel like me any more. I also have this extreme tiredness all th time and massive constant brain fog. I normally used to only get this with depression. but im not depressed. Im pretty aware of it when i am. so i have no idea whats causing mine. I'm almost scared i'll never be able to enjoy things again like i used to, or feel emotions again its been lasting so long.

I’ve been feeling like this for as far back as I remember, but more recently since my Dad died. I never know it had a name. I’m in a terrible state of mind just now. I’m lost, it’s all an effort and I can’t be bothered with anything. I’ve lost my mojo.

This made me cry because of how much I can relate to losing pleasure in things you love.

I think that every body who suffers from this should test their cortisol levels, especially if you also have a sleeping disorder. Bare in mind that the normal range for cortisol is much lower after 10pm so you should test you cortisol both in the daytime and at night

I’m a big music lover and I’ve been my whole life ever since early childhood. As I started to enter my teen years, I started struggling with depression and sever anxiety. Music would always help and heal me but now I feel nothing when I listen to music. There was nothing I loved more on the world that music and it was always my dream to like be in a band one day. But now the gift of music was taken away from me and I don’t know who I am anymore without it. I just want to enjoy music again like I used to. Not enjoying music feels like a sickness like a cancer inside me. Please god I just want to enjoy music again 😔

Im crying and thinking right now: will i be really interested in my activities again ?. It feels like I'm trying to grab water when I search for acticies for my liking, but in the end the water still leaks out and leaves nothing behind

I used to enjoy spending times with my best-friends so much...they made me overcome with my pain from time to time...but now i felt nothings towards them..i want to laugh with them but i can’t feel anything,and sometimes i faked laugh and they just knew and told me about it..and i felt so bad:( i started to get worry that they might leave me because i don’t show normal reactions like i used too anymore .i love them deeply and i don’t want to lose them....i can’t lose them at all...i’m so worry about it

I've been going through this for years and it really shows at home.

I too am just now learning this about this word which I was googling myself , and came across this video. thank you .

I don't know if its anhedonia or my adhd, but the things I loved, and still sort of do, stress me out just thinking about them. I'm almost afraid of them because doing them and never seeing improvement drives my anxiety through the roof. Even holding my sketchbook messes with my mood. I sat and did NOTHING for 8 entire hours tonight instead of working on DnD stuff, which is something I used to love writing for just a year ago. I just don't care about so many things and it worries me

I feel something like this for 3 years... I feel like im dead, i feel coldness inside of me. Its very hard to explain, but i feel drained, like someone took my energy and soul and its very weird... I feel lifeless walking through city streets around people and on public transport. I can even feel how my clothes are on my body and there is strange chill. I cant not to ask myself what is this sorcery? But i do think its from stress, depression, suppresed feelings, toxic people (negative energy). Isolation... Bunch of things mixed up.

I'm feeling this right now, nothing can bring me to laugh or smile anymore.. somewhere in my mind telling me that I have to be grateful for what I have in my life, but what did I have? I have a son that'a being over controlled by my parents, I can't have the same dad-son relationship like others. people might think that I do child neglect, but I don't even given the choice in the first place. all my parents think that they have a good time with their grandson and not thinking of how I feel. and why I can't accept my parents? because ever since I was a child I'm being abused and insulted for every damn mistake that I made. how am i be able to let my child in the hand of people that treated me bad? I'm desperately looking for a job that never came to me, thus I'm left being a poor guy who doesn't have any money. people also left me behind. I have no partner or friend. everyday I felt it was just a prolonged miserable life, without being able to provide or to prove that I'm the same as worthy as others. I just feeling angry and hopeless and unable to express my feelings to other people. if I'm always ended by being useless, then why I must given a chance to life?

Reading the comments and I’m in shock.., for several years now I thought I’m just going crazy feeling like that .., Apparently I’m not the only one

The problem with me is people, I can spend a limited time with them, and only a few keep me interested and engaged, others bore me.

I can't feel joy anymore Its just happened to me recently but im still doing fine last week all the music, games, anime i enjoy doesn't give me anything anymore its so frustrating I wish i recover from this because im only 18 yrs old and still have so many things i wanna do in life

I'm finding out about this cause in all honesty I don't ever remember being happy, as a child I sat at a table and zoned, never enjoyed games or family time and visits, as a teen I sat in my room not caring about the day or had hobbies and as an adult I found an extreme lack of care for anything. Got stuck with a man I didn't care about, he left and I didn't care, friend died- tried to care, Mother blocked me for 8 yrs and It didn't bother me, I don't know my family and don't care. I have a soft spot for my kids and animals but am still finding it hard to be in an honest joyful moment. Never cried at a wedding or funeral and when my aunt asked me how I would feel if she fell ill I found myself not caring, I felt depressed but then didn't care enough to keep feeling even that... I do great things, rescue and volunteer and give to my community but there's no feeling behind it... I want to know what's wrong with Me or if there is another way to live with myself... I don't want to feel stuck on empty, I want to experience other things... I didn't know there was more to existing and now I want to learn.

This is absolutely indistinguishable from typical depression - the loss of joy in life. Everybody with it should check their vitD levels get those right (50 ng/mL)and concetrate on three simple things : good sleep (early in bed,7 hours of sleep,early morning getting up),good food (no processed foods,lot of vegs and fruits) and walking/exercise of any kind.

It’s being so overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time. I didn’t know there was a word for this until now I’ve just called it “whelmed” 😭😹

I used to love Reading, studying, talking to friends, Art, sports and video games. Now everything just feels like a void an endless routine. Honestly i don't know what happiness feel anymore.

Well this relates to how me and my twin brother are feeling as we are losing interest in life. I believe my dad has it too as he said he feels lost and hopeless and he’s no long takes good care of himself. Although my dad is in his 70s so it might be harder on him.

God please ill do anything just to feel again

Completely crushing

I went to my best friends town for the first time, it was like a dream come true for me because I had always wanted to go there. These huge mountains, a river running a few yards away from her home with a beautiful garden and so many people who were so kind and affectionate was all that I received in this visit. But all I could feel when I went there was that I've seen hills before, these are just bigger. I could see the horror of crashing waves of the river instead of enjoying it. I felt disturbed by their social structure which was deeply patriarchal and almost anti female cuz they'd be working to feed the males 24/7 all day everyday. Above all, even in the most beautiful places, I felt that they were so ordinary. I know that's not normal because it only hurt me and deprived me of any enjoyment. But this is like normal now, so hard to enjoy the things I used to love.

As an indian i am feeling exact like i am suffering from 4 years but still suffering i have no expectations about anything from anyone not even from my family i cant feel anything i cant feel my surrounding things nature creatures peoples i dont know why why i cant help myself even i have no excitement for dating anyone no excitement for doing new thing or doing any activity no excitemnt for going new places i thing i am dead feom inside and i am facing this from 11 class god now i am done with tht and i have to live like this forevever

"It is standing atop the Summit of a great mountain, the winds tearing about you, then finding yourself buried alive. Trapped, helpless and alone. It is like having the energy of youth… then feeling the cloak of years fall upon you, and knowing you are weak, fragile, and a thing easily discarded. It is knowing what you want to say and never finding the words. It is a chorus, replaced with silence. Hearing teachings without meaning. It is like a beloved pupil to whom you have shared everything, sacrificed everything; and then having them turn from you... and forget all you were." Kreia

I have extreme anhedonia from substance abuse, I can’t feel anything while sober. Best way to explain it is everything feels numb.

I was diagnosed with ADHD recently, and was prescribed medication that definitely increased these feelings

Just discovered this term. I think I have this sometimes. I enjoy stuff but not as much as I used to but I suppose that's partly due to age. No Serial Killer.

Yeah at last I know what the name of this feeling I had since I was 15. I'm not surprised if this going to be top 3 disease in the next 5 year. We all know the cause but we don't want to face it.

Same...this is how it feels like.

Extremely painful beyond words

I lost my mind a long time ago and i was never the same after it

Good for you having the anhedonia gone. Did a lot of hard work in therapies, but it all comes back. And no more stamina for changing it.

I feel the same way too

I am also suffering from this I feel like I am just a walking skeleton and I feel nothing.

What kind of treatment did you get? All I see on the internet is all these people complaining about Anhedonia yet no success stories

I don’t even like to eat anymore

I like art but i feel nothing anymore. I took a trip i been wanting to go on for my whole life and felt nothing. Im not sad im not happy im just living… without living

I used to love riding horses. Now that we moved and we’re giving the saddle back, I don’t want to do anything anymore. I just feel numb.

Damn .... i am one of them also..

yeah just pop a pill and like me just keep whatever it is that is emotionally killing you/me/ inside just learn to survive the best one can because no one cares speaking from experience , unfortunately.

I live in anedonia right now and i prefer this life then the old one

What if I can't feel happyness in the relationship I had and when it is over I m trying to cling into it with all of my might then I get an emotional spike that I don't need that and at the same day 1-2 hours later I get another spike to get down to the point I would hang myself and getting this roalercoaster each and every day. I feel the issue is bigger than the usual "love sickness"....when I do sports or play games that I enjoy I stop enjoying them after 1-2 months or after 3 and getting so much effort at the start and high motivation, but later it is completely vanishing. I feel life is like the same now.

When fapping isn't pleasurable anymore, you know somethings up

Am not dead neither alive. F*ck is there a way out of this. Help! Help! Heeeeeelp!😔

@PsychHub, as someone who’s been suffering from this, how were you able to cure/treat anhedonia to get back to the shelter and puppies?

I know what you are going through i felt the same but now I'm glad to say that I am recovering from this. For me it started after a panic attack. I didn't know what was happening to me because it is not something that I talk to someone on a day to day basis. But i can say this that the only person who can help you is yourself. I would highly recommend reading 'the secret' by Rhonda Byrne. Cause it can really make a difference. for me i can say it definitely did. Btw, not promoting the book or anything, it's a personal opinion.😊hope you get what you wish for.

Going thru this right now ever since my gpa died I felt like I went with him it’s hard for me to love my kids when I never felt a mother or fathers love i but so many guns/electronics to try and make up for the things I never had but it feels like I’m trying to fill an endless hole I need help I need something to change this way of thinking this way of living :(

How to treat it?

I've been strugging with mental health all summer. I've gotten alot of symptoms ok lately. I lost interest in hobbies, depressive mood, social withdrawal, appetite changes, mood changes, lack of sleep, decision problems, affection problems, and emotionally sensative

I tried searching on google what i'm feeling, like the things that i do to ease my nerves suddenly became a chore. Hell, even playing various games as well. Everything that I want to do to revitalize my soul didn't work, just wanted lay down and stare blankly at nothing...

I'm just waiting to die I was into music and into film but now Life is just Meh.

For most of this century I’ve felt very little other than hurt, deep sorrow or anger. And, to the narrator, I’m glad your anhedonia has left you but that does not mean that everyone who suffers from this wretched condition will overcome it. I’m glad you got well... but there seems no way out for me. I’m stuck having to stay living in order to not upset others... but who cares about me?

Ive felt like this for 3 years all i do is sleep nothing excites me anymore ive dropped all my hobbies i even went on a trip recently and felt like shit. What seams to help is the rush you get from energy drinks if you haven't had one in a long time.

I don’t have anhedonia, I’m very interested in music and other things, but there’s one activity that I have lost most of my interest in, and all I wanna do is gain interest in it again. It’s been really tough and I’ve been really sad about it for a while. Is there a word that describes this type of emotion?

Bro, im 13 hahah. And i fant cry, can’t be sad, can’t be happy, the only thing making me happy is me being alive at all

Personally I don’t enjoy socializing at all to me it’s the equivalent of drinking molten lead so the only time I feel at peace is when I’m alone behind a locked door minding my own business, you can criticize me all you want but I don’t see a problem with myself at all because I’m sick and tired of people treating me like crap everywhere on a constant basis to be blunt I couldn’t give a crap about other people anymore.

Anhedonia is a nightmare. I like electronics / games and end up buying different things for projects. I'd get it in the mail, look at it then stick it in the closet. I WANT to enjoy it but, I just can't. Zero motivation. (Poor me, right?). I have TRD and no med has worked. I'm sure a ton of people here can relate.

Nothing will make me happy again. There is no cure for life.

Ok, great, but how do I fix it!?!?

connecting with people is what matters

Okay now I’m getting kinda worried. I haven’t smiled for a while and my mother abused me but not a tear came from my eye. I don’t know. I don’t know what to do.

You know,it feels like already dead inside,i cant feel any joy from things i used love to

I feel like only composing music is a bit enjoyable, and a lot of the time, even that doesn't feel enjoyable

Could this be caused by antibiotics

Damage by antidepressants

Anime gone Movies gone Cartoons gone Video gone Drawing gone Guitar gone Studying gone Socialising gone. Please help oh Lord Please help me

I also find in my experience meeting a lot of nasty people causes me to feel Anhedonia more strongly. They suck the life out of U. No Serial Killer.

I have is nearly 8 years.. What is the treatment of this problem?

Wow jus worked out what's wrong with me what can make me feel good again?

It can be treated, but how? That's all i got out if this video.

It has been a year to me recovered feom OCD i am completely recovered but i am no longer any intrest in listinig music ,to play cricket,to talk people ,no sex feeling,i have no energy to work is it anhedoania? If it is than how long does it itake to treat ? One week or 2 weeks or 1 month ?

After a health diagnosis this happened to me not interested in anything

When when are consuming high-dopamine rewards, we lose the ability to take joy in ordinary pleasures

Yup, I'm depressed

I just think my heart is dead 😢😢😢 it’s really stressing me and I am tired with it 😰😰😰

I’ve been listening to the wrong advice I’m not talking about the video I’m talking about sometime last year My friend’s friend would tell me something like or something along the lines of: “Why you so gassed for” “Why are you so excited for” I would sometimes say: “I’m happy” or “I feel sad” He would say “That’s gay” Why is it so hard for me to not pay attention to things like that

All my sensory pleasures are gone. I can’t feel touch , sex , eating or bathing. All I feel is this prickly burning ache inside my head and scalp . It’s horrible to live with and makes me so unhappy

i might be in denial, i dont know. i bought the books that define what the government says about me to find where i might be sane. but i think i might have this condition. so im half way there

but you have to be rich to afford psychiatric help. what do poor people do to overcome this

Me.

What if you don't even have anything you love doing

I feel like I don’t like anything.

Does SSRI treat or worsen anhedonia?

I don't have anhedonia. But It breaks my heart for those who have this. Because my ex girlfriend had anhedonia. Over time she got bored and lost feelings. I knew she had anhedonia but I really tried but nothing worked 🙁

Help, i'm showing signs of it.

Anhedonia isn’t even depression anhedonia is when something is physically wrong with you causing it and not mentally

Each day seems like it's my last. Shrinks zero help throwing drugs for 2 decades Shame on the government creating global chaos