Anhedonia. The inability to feel pleasure.

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Anhedonia. The inability to feel pleasure. Anonymage 05/11/25 (Sun) 00:05:32 No.300441

The inability to anticipate pleasure but the ability to anticipate effort, hardship leave me in a state of stagnation.

I'm totally normal except that I never felt like going on a trip overseas. Never felt like going to a concert. Never felt like making friends. Never enjoyed talking to others. Never enjoyed cooking meals. I pretty much never enjoyed anything.
My dick barely feels any pleasure too.

You can be born smart and everything but if the pleasure center is all fucked up, you are doomed to spend a life of stagnation. There is no motivation to achieve anything. Time passes away. Years pass by and nothing goes on. No matter how many gifts nature endows you with, if you have a deficiency in the drive/pleasure center, you are doomed to a life of mediocrity.

A life of mediocrity.
Something I know much about at 43 years of age.

Anonymage 05/12/25 (Mon) 19:39:52 No.300498

>>300441
This sounds a bit like PSSD or what SSRIs or antipsychotics can do to you.
In the end when you are brainfried, you need sleep, lots of it. Metric tons of melatonin. Serotonin spawns melatonin, if that rythm is fucked you are running on empty like a zombie. Sorry, I dont want to ruin your thread. I felt like sharing my shitty wisdom. I have been anhedonic for 8 years ever since my parents died and I recently turned 30. It's a battle against time. You do "healthy" things like a robot, until it gets better, even if it seems pointless. Hitting the door in the prison of your mind until one day the door opens. I barely eat food or feel hunger and feel stuck in a loop in my brain of absolute insane boredom. Maybe its a thing among computer people like me.

Anonymage 05/12/25 (Mon) 20:33:27 No.300500

That's depression for you
Did your family simply never show you what it's like to have a good experience? My parents were unhappy and never did anything with me so ill never know what its even like to go on a happy vacation and so on

Anonymage 05/12/25 (Mon) 20:37:38 No.300501

>>300498
>sounds a bit like PSSD or what SSRIs or antipsychotics can do to you.

I don't want to praise this stuff but I never understood why people online say this. You only take these kind of drugs when you are already anhedonic, depressed, dysphoric, numbed, apathetic, emotionally dead, a zombie. In that case they can help. When you are not like, and you feel emotions and drive, they might make you anhedonic, but then you wouldn't take them anyways. So this argument makes no sense to me. The worst that can happen is that they don't change shit.

Anonymage 05/12/25 (Mon) 20:49:47 No.300502

>>300501
It's real. I'm not him and have tried 4 different antidepressants, and observed family members take them too, with all of them having effects like that. They literally make your dick stop working. Without them people may feel more intense negative emotions but at least they feel something and have emotional fluctuations and emotional responses. Society likes them because it can keep fucked up people alive and more likely able to wageslave but it decreases emotional capacity. Making people like zombies is an extremely fitting description

Anonymage 05/13/25 (Tue) 20:48:36 No.300533

>>300441
I have this problem. There's no solution.

Anonymage 08/19/25 (Tue) 18:35:40 No.302296

>>300498
good, good

I have an unasked advice for you: use muzak/background music and stuff (e.g. stuff like silicone earplugs, each lasts for a week - or more if treated with peroxide weekly) to mask out the noises of the city

and get a cab(a taxi) sometimes, to win some sleep time

also, buy shit in bulk

Anonymage 08/20/25 (Wed) 02:11:39 No.302308

Same here about the dick problems. At first it was just anhedonia, I still had some decent days and could always fap when I wanted a little dopamine. But now? My dick died a few months ago and now cumming is no more enjoyable than pissing. I don't know how I manage to stay alive. It's hell on earth.

Anonymage 08/20/25 (Wed) 03:57:43 No.302309

>>302296
Music works but also just very strong noise cancelinc earbuds like Bose Quietcomfort or Airpods Pro 2.

I've come to appreciate silence itself. In many cases it's more calming than music. And it drowns out city noise pollution.

Anonymage 08/21/25 (Thu) 14:37:22 No.302348

>>300501
I feel the same about this.
Some get fucked up by those drugs, but anhedonia for me is just my normality.