Us Anxious Folk Podcast // ep 33: Anhedonia - when nothing feels enjoyable anymore

In this (requested) episode of Us Anxious Folk, I talk all about the loss of pleasure...and how to find your way back to enjoying life again.
Dealing with anxiety and/or depressive disorders for any extended period of time can cause anhedonia: the inability to feel pleasure or joy. This can result in a feeling of numbness and separation with the world around you, and often causes motivation to even attempt to seek enjoyment to dip to an all-time low. Loss of pleasure becomes a double-edged sword, as not only does it feel pointless to try and have fun, but the failure to enjoy an activity once deemed pleasurable can cause further distress.
In this episode, I cover the biological reasons that pleasure is mostly inaccessible when we are living from survival mode, and how to find your way towards feeling joy and excitement in your life.
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This is hardly ever spoken about! This Fiona Apple lyric sums it up for me "everything good is too good to be true, everything else is just a bore. Everything I have to look forward to has a pretty painful and very imposing before". ❤

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Also is your book out now??