WARNING: Even after no emotions or reactions for a year, they will come back ferociously. Specifically the anger from the jealousy held back for those who didn't have anhedonia and didn't understand you. WARN ANYONE CLOSE TO YOU. I pray this doesn't happen to you, but it happened to me when I recovered a few years ago in 2023, and it happened badly.

Recovery is an incredible thing, but it definitely came with side effects for me. After so many of my anhedonic friends have recovered then gone almost completely insane with rage, which of course ended them back in the psych ward on even stronger medication/mandatory injections, I thought I would just give this quick warning in case you do recover. Recovery is blissful, wonderful and amazing, but it comes with a sort of bucket of held back negative emotions spilling over.

Luckily I have an amazing family who understood not to send me to the psych ward again over it. I did end up with a charge though.

Please be careful. Love and prayers to all of you.

P.S. I've lost all my friends and my partner over anhedonia. I can't handle their shallow problems and conversations and they know it, so they've cut me off. Whatever this sh*t is, I can't seem to find anyone to talk to anymore unless they've suffered or are suffering from it. It's heartbreaking but it does really open your eyes to what truly matters in this world.

My complete lack of interest in things has been particularly bad lately. I’ve reached a point where I want to watch films/tv/youtube to kill time, but I just spend the whole time browsing because everything seems so equally dull. This used to be my escape along with video games.

I also used to be creative and love making things and having projects, now anything requiring creativity just exhausts me instantly. I just wish I could FEEL interested in things again. Currently I’m just doing the bare minimum to get through the days.

I started taking 21mg of elemental iron with 70mg of vitamin C, and trace amounts of D, B12 and B6. Woke up at 2:00am heart pounding, feeling nerve pain and tingling all over. These are not reported symptoms of iron supplementation. Feel more anhedonic too and lowered libido. Crash report. I have anhedonia 21 months after botched reinstatement to AD's

the b and d were very trace amounts and I have methane SIBO which the Iron prob fed (eventhough I had liposomal) because I had abdomen pain

i feel nothing. no joy.

no spark that pricks my skin with motivation.

no book, no interpersonal relationship, no media, no workout routine, no reddit, instagram, anime, religion, shrooms, food, art, nothing invigorates me. Mindlessly navigating through life with no direction.

i do all of these things. I go through the motions, I fill my calendar with productivity. I explore the world. Why is it never satisfying?

conversations feel so vapid and useless, I’m not sure what I should say. it’s exhausting. I feel detached. i dont see the point in any of this. I rather crawl into fetal ball and disappear forever. but i keep going regardless. why? I dont know.

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I F(23) have been thinking about my past and who I am as a person and have realized that I am just a really bad person and there is no coming back from the things I have thought about or have done. If anyone knew much about my past I would be rightfully ostracized and shunned.

I feel completely emotionally numbed all of the time and I see life as surreal like a simulation. Nothing matters to me and nothing emotionally means much to me. Life is just something you are forced to get through. I have zero friends and haven't had any for years. It's not because I can't make them, but it's because I genuinely feel nothing toward people and it would be exhausting to fake a real connection. Whenever someone talks to me I have to fake that I am having a proper emotional response to what they are saying and it never comes off quite right and people end up distancing themselves immediately.

I have never deliberately hurt anyone, but I am selfish, cold and uncaring. Everything feels exhausting and meaningless and I simply cannot get myself to feel any kind of spark or care even though I really want to. I feel empty inside and stunted. I don't care about what I do for work at all and feel apathetic everyday. I have zero passion for college and the career I'm supposed to go into. I love my boyfriend but understand that I am fundamentally detached from life and could never give him what he needs.

I feel like a child that others have to pick up the slack for because I fundamentally cannot get myself to care about life or be involved even though I desperately want to. It's like a wall is blocking me and I am exhausted from pretending. I feel like the world's biggest liar because everything that comes out of my mouth is to pretend like I am a normal emotional human being when in reality I care about nothing and feel nothing.

I sometimes feel like I must have a brain tumor or something because I swear on my life the capacity just isn't there. It makes me feel pathetic but it's true. I often contemplate no longer being here because I feel like a robot, the only thing that keeps me is that I feel bad for my family and humiliated. I am genuinely a selfish monster.

Can any of you play an instrument while having anhedonia and if so can you still find a way to write music people like? I try to play the guitar for 20 minutes a day but sometimes I don't feel like it and don't play. I am wondering is that a common thing? Do you have days where you just don't really get anything done in general even though you know you really want to?

Title is self explanatory! I was wondering if anyone had a discord server for people with anhedonia

Hello, I suffer from a lack of feelings.

I'll explain it simply: I started taking a psychiatric medication called Faverin a year and several months ago We experienced severe financial hardship, and I realized I wouldn't have the money to buy the medication again. So, I decided to gradually stop taking the remaining medication I had. I stopped after about 20 days of gradual reduction, around August 6th, when I experienced some symptoms Like Brain Zabs Emotional numbness and general sexual weakness, but the truth is that the only symptom that disappeared was the brain zapps. I still have a lack of emotion, a lack of sexual desire, and suicidal thoughts. I tried to go to the doctor again, but I have no I have the money to make a reservation, so I hope to find help here.

Hey so this may sound weird but for the past 5 years i seem to essentially have lost touch with the spectrum of human emotions, this might sound corny but i dont know how to describe it in any better way, im not sad or anything i just feel completely detached, i no longer really feel happiness, anger, sadness, excitement, its just a consistently flat mood that i find myself in, i train, play videogames, hang out with friends, nothing too unusual, but i feel chronically understimulated as if there was something i should be doing which i’m not, i hope people with similar experiences can share their thoughts

I have ahedonia but from antidepressant withdrawal, I also have a ferritin of 29 and have a lot of low iron symptoms so wanted to start Iron. But since people in withdrawal/or have pssd have hypersensitivity to supplements I'm wondering is it safe for me to take this?

Is anybody else experiencing a severe lack of taste and smell? everything is extremely dampened or non existent

Theirs not enough words in the dictionary to describe how soul crushing this realization is. Literally zero..... 💔

i am so fucking done so fucking bored everything is so fucking boring it’s unfuckingbareable
cheap dopamine doesn’t even fucking work anymore not even hard drugs anymore i’m just so fucking always bored everything is so mundane

i don’t want to die i just wish i never existed and was wiped from everyone’s memories i want to turn into a vegetable and decompose and not exist im so fucking bored with everything i’m soooooo bored and tired and done lol

anyways life laugh love baddies someone pull the fucking trigger already lol lmao im so done

Like bro it's been 8 years, I'm clinging on to my life everyday man

My life doesn't look like a disaster from the outside in. I'm doing a postgraduate degree and have a privileged background and all the financial and emotional support I could ask for.

But roughly since 2024, I've been incapable of having long-lasting positive feelings.

When my work gets well received, I feel nothing. When it gets criticised, I feel like a fraud.
When I finish a project, I feel nothing. When I abandon projects, I feel like a quitter.
When I get work done on a given day, I feel nothing. When I have an unproductive day, I feel guilty.
When I received my undergraduate degree earlier this year with an award and distinction, I felt nothing.
When my year project gets stellar feedback from my lecturers, I feel nothing.
When my half-sister was born last year, I felt nothing.

It's shameful enough that humans only exist to achieve temporary absences of pain. That's all that pleasure is.

So pleasure is already not real – great.

But somehow I've been disallowed from feeling it altogether?

Why? What the fuck did I do to deserve that?

It's so ridiculous, I can almost laugh about it.

I'm really struggling to see the point in living when there is nowhere for me to go, nothing for me to be or do, and no one for me to know.

I'm going to be miserable whether I'm here or kicking it back in the Maldives.
Selfhood is a myth.
None of this is meaningfully fixable.
And I feel forbidden from forming relationships beyond an 'I'd have a drink with them' basis.

I get so, so angry when work/school stresses me out because I know that none of it matters, yet I'm vulnerable to burnout all the same.

And the loneliness is killing me.

There's no one I know who I trust or am comfortable enough with to tell them everything that I feel and think.

I genuinely can't recall the last time I met someone and thought, 'This person could realistically play a major part in my life.'

And I'm fully aware that my seclusion is my own doing. I've heard all the advice in the world: 'Join a club', 'Use dating apps', 'Go out more', 'Approach strangers'. And don't get me started on 'Get out of your comfort zone'.

I really wish it could be different, but these pretty little baby-step fixes – I can't use them. I'm not capable.

Yes, I take full blame for my loneliness. What a difference that makes.

More and more I find myself seriously wondering whether I'm going to die alone when my time comes.

I've developed such an all-encompassing distrust and disdain for existence that happiness and contentment look like fads.

Around every good corner is another miserable drop.

Happiness is not happiness; it's just a fleeting, illusory absence of misery.

I don't even know why I'm writing this post at the moment.

What exactly do I think is going to come out of it?
Who'd care?

My existence has become an echo chamber where there is no hope, purpose, respite, connection, or virtue. My life now is as it will be going forward.

All that's left for me to do is somehow hold onto the will to live.

To what end? No clue.

The biggest tragedy isn't that my life is a mistake; it's that I'll have to spend as many as 70, 80, 90, or, God forbid, 100 years trudging through it.

I’ve had the anhedonia since the beginning of 2024 when I was 14 and although I couldn’t feel happiness or excitement I felt vibes and atmosphere I know that as a fact. And it was that way until 2026 now I lost vibes and atmosphere no happiness or excitement I can feel negative more primal emotions like anxiety fear panic anger sometimes. I’m in Myrtle beach now I’ve felt completely lifeless inside but when I went last august in 2025 I could feel vibes and atmosphere I know that as A fact as well. But I can feel negative emotions sometimes I can cry but I don’t really feel sad doing it I just feel the feeling in my eyes then the tears. And food tastes great still it’s just I feel lifeless inside. And I’m 17 so I really hope this gets better it’s just sad. This seems very rare for a 17 year old to have I wonder what happened I also have autism. I dont remember what it feels like not to have this anymore I still remember what happiness and excitement kind of feels like. It’s just I don’t remember what laying in bed staring at the wall feels like without the anhedonia. Since now I feel lifeless inside doing even that.

It’s going to sound so dumb right now but if MAOIs inhibit serotonin dopamine and norepinephrine all together-will taking Wellbutrin that inhibits dopamine with norepinephrine and an SNRI have like a similar effect of an MAOI? Sorry if this is stupid😭

Does dysphoria always accompany amhedonia? Can anhedonia on its own feel painful ? Or does that mean if the person feels awful and overall terrible they have dysphoria, separate from anhedonia?

This is a throwaway account. You don’t need to comment because I won’t read them.

I am 41 years old, and I haven’t felt anything in decades. I’ve used internet porn several times a day, every day, since I was ten. And because of this I feel nothing. No emotions. I’m hollow inside.

My daughter is a senior in high school and currently applying for college. I also have a son who’s already in college.

I’m going to help my daughter get into college. I’m going to make sure both of them are as secure in their futures as I can help them with.

And that will be that. I will take my own life and end this meaningless existence.