I haven't felt anything in years, instead I'm just very good at faking it. Been faking it since I was a child so when I'm "pretending" I actually believe that I'm feeling it but on reflection I was not.
Low estrogen and low serotonin most likely, its the constant worry built up through the years that shuts down your brain, when I began taking ssris I began feeling emotions after some months, most likely because I started eating shit loads of crap food, I quit it tho, some years later I began working out, taking multivitamins, omega 3, eating very clean and lost shit loads of weight, then I began taking another multivitamin Animal pak wish had 8 pills a pack, the more I took it the more I began feeling flat, I felt like a zombie, no emotions at all I felt like a total psychopath, then my libido got down loads, I quit animal pak, still was flat for months until I began taking Liquid chlorophyll from now foods, after 3 days taking it I cried with joy because I began feeling things again, it has copper in it, I also took zma before when I was flat sending my copper even lower, it also balances your hormones, if you have low estrogen your serotonin production will suffer, making your dopamine higher with more worry, people that are oversensitive has copper overload aka copper toxicity, because copper is needed for serotonin to cross the blood brain barrier, I really suggest you try it out, it kills my anxiety and depression at the same time and also gives me strong confidence, also try maca root, If you feel flat, low libido and probably low appetite? And confidence, liquid chlorophyll will for sure fix it trust me
I got anhedonia from deperzonalization, and I got deperzonalization from a panic attack on weed, deperzonalization u feel like your in a dream, and like everything is fake, u feel like your out of your body and u feel emotionally numb, I don't really feel like I'm in a dream but I do feel numb sometimes less sometimes more, depends
I had a hard life as child, harder as a teenager when i started feeling depressed. i wasn't numb yet but i started getting more sad and less happy (could still feel happiness tho) then one time when i was 16 i got so angry over something i could not feel anymore joy after. only anger sadness and frustration... almost 5 years down the line i started experiancing numbness, had a huge panic attack and became depersonalized, gradually started loosing the ability to feel even "negative" emotions like anger and sadness... yet they still lurk within me despertly trying to come out. and it is VERY hard to feel them when you're numb. the moral of my story is. its better to be able the negative emotions then to have none...
I was on SSRI's. I still have interest in eating, exercising, and sleeping. I still feel angry. But I'm not feeling anything else. I can't laugh. I can't cry.
This is very similar to my case, though it's not all the time, more like very often bouts of it, and when i do feel more normal it's still usually dulled, and then rarely i feel actually good
I no longer feel sad when my family members die. I don't feel anything, I'm so used to the cold shoulder, death, and all that I don't even care anymore. to not be calm is alien to me I hate showing my anger or sadness.
Thank you so much for this video! I feel like this is the first time I felt understood or validated in what I have been going through. I have been feeling devastated because I been feeling horrible about not feeling a certain way when I know I should. It makes me feel like a monster and is eating me inside. I blamed myself and thought I was just Aloof or completely selfish. This video helped place things in perspective for me. The thing that disturbs me the most is the last two, which have made me become avoidant, because I feel awful for acting. I'm so glad there is a solution to this. Will visit the website. Thank you very much!
Kyreem I get that avoidance because you feel fake...I became a BIT of a hermit. But fake it till you make it was my dad’s motto. If you make the faces, the emotion will eventually come I promise. But you have to keep positive which is the HARDEST part my dude
Antipsychotic drugs will make you feel nothing you will lose interests in everything do not take them no matter how down or anxious you feel go run practice sport do not take them.
My wife just left me. Shes on sertraline. Says she feels something's missing, doesnt love me and theres no excitement in our relationship. She was so loving and happy before her meds but she wont listen to me when i say it could be her meds
Des... I am in the same situation as you. Loving wife with the best 10 year old son that parents could ever wish for. My wife (now ex wife) started taking Lexapro due to stress at work. Four weeks later, she filed for divorce out of the blue. She told me that we had grown apart and that she felt like we were roommates. No emotions at all. Before that, our relationship was great... married for 16 years! I told her about the research regarding "Medication Spellbinding" (Dr. Peter Breggin) and that SSRIs remove one's abilities to feel emotions. She got extremely mad at me for mentioning it, and still does to this day whenever I mention it. She recently moved 4 states away, in essence abandoning our son. What a great crime that has been portrayed upon us by doctors and big pharma. They know that this is happening but refuse to do anything about it.
I'm on Pristiq, an antidepressant. I feel very flat and my libido is gone..zero. not even a sensation down like I've been castrated. I don't know what to do. I've tried many antidepressants and I always get these two side effects. It looks like I'll be single forever :(
I don’t know how to explain this but I feel so relieved seeing this video everything matches up with every way I feel and do I have reached out for help and no one understands but this is exactly it
I developed anhedonia after some severely traumatic experiences. I understand now it was my mind's way of protecting me from intense grief, fear, etc. At some point, it just sort of became permanent. I started seeing a therapist and it's been helpful. I have started feeling some emotion again. A lot of what I've done is just understanding and reminding myself that I am safe now, and that experience is not there any longer, and there is no reason to need to protect myself any longer by cutting off emotions. Sometimes, even just vocalizing that I'm safe now, is enough to feel little bits of emotion. It's interesting. I wish the info in this program was shared for free and for the good of everyone.
The info is free on the website on how to do the program. There is also a paid program too with more resources. I only charge for the paid program to cover my costs and volunteer my time to run it. I'm really glad you are getting your feelings back!
@@emotionalflatlininganhedon2232 Thanks for clarifying. I can understand needing to cover costs to run the program, that makes sense. Hopefully one day this issue will be more understood and recognized, and there will be more help available for people. I wish everyone dealing with this success. Don't give up! Recently, I've discovered that I do feel emotions, but they seem to be delayed by several hours or maybe even days. It sort of seems like a sign to me that i'm slowly becoming more comfortable with emotions again. Now a days, whenever I feel an emotion, even one that is very uncomfortable, I really latch on to it while it's there, try to feel it in its entirety. I hope that this will help reinforce that emotions are safe, and there is no reason to push them away. So far, I think it's really helping. I am grateful for any emotion I feel. Hopefully this comment will help someone one day.
I am close to a guy that told me when each one of his 3 kids were born, he was in the delivery room, literally waiting to experience that intense passion, love, awe, etc. that you are 'supposed' to get when your children are born. But, he felt nothing. Not even the burden of more responsibility. He also shared with me that what bothered him most when his mother died was that it didn't really bother him at all. He's also shared with me that he feels as though he never got his 'script' for living life. I think he needs to know more about anhedonia.
Omg I now know what I'm going through in 17 and my family just get angry at me for saying I don't feel emotions I just simply can't I want to and in very willing too I just can't x
I don't feel pleasure in any form. I don't eat much because it does nothing for me. I don't have sex because it does nothing for me. I could go on and on but you catch my drift right? Anhedonia, when I first heard the word I didn't have a clue what it meant. Now I do, I know exactly what it means.
You've just described what I'm going through perfectly! its not a reduction, but an inability to generate any good feeling. I'll work with your program and see how things go, thank you❤
@@Jajajaja63227 I wouldn't say I am not feeling slightly better than I did three months ago, but the depth that I previously had while feeling anything good is still lacking,, there have been moments where I felt that I was able to actually feel, though very weakly, and momentarily, but I'm not entirely certain if I'm not making that up. I just think maybe it's too early to say. also I stopped doing the exercise for about ten days in the middle, because i was very busy, but resumed it again. this was a month back, I've done it regularly since, so that's another point to note i guess.. i can let you know in a few more months again, if you wish..
My anhedonia came when I started taking antipsychotics drugs for my depression. I never felt too much pleassure, but after that I felt nothing. I stopped using them two months ago and now I feel normal again.
@@katenka_ana3997 Most of the time, I don't feel anything while listening to music eather actually that was the first reason that I noticed that I'm pretty much emotional numb. But you could maybe find anything you enjoy, even if it's only sometimes. Do it often. For me it's reading books
It's actually caused by abuse, being the victim of it. A certain degree of emotionality can trigger buried negative emotions so people have to cut off all emotion because they're so overwhelmed at that level by what they have experienced as victims. The cutting off process occurs at the unconscious level I would say.
exactly. i jst seem to go thru the same type of trauma and rejections over and over again that i think my brain just completely shut down in order not to be hurt. it makes sense
Ok. There are times while feeling low that I just stare and feel blank, but then I go back to being sad. I do FEEL sadness and even cry and grieve for my losses and my old life. I miss my friends and my dog that died after 14 years with him. So I hope I do not have anhedonia. I feel hopeless, down, sad, anger, discouraged, but CANNOT feel happiness. I cannot feel anything positive AT ALL, but can feel grief. That grief is the only one on the list I CAN feel. I used to be a comedian and hyper and full of life. I travelled and was a great photographer. Now all I do is lay down. I hate meds though. Refuse to take psych meds.
My anhedonia has come from a lot of long-term stress. I had nothing left, no feeling, no emotions, no motivations, no fear. I was a complete zombie, dead on the inside. I have had anhedonia for 2 years, what helped me is l-tyrosine. Now it's all coming back, just before I had anhedonia, so there is a cure.
hi, how long did it take to get rid of your anhedonia with l-tyrosine? How many times did you take the pill? Is your anhedonia still gone? please let me know. Thank you
@@gilgameshduchiha9529 In 3 to 4 days I already noticed a difference, I use 1 or 2 a day 500mg and that for a few weeks, I hardly use it anymore because it is gone.
@@yoda747 how bad was your anhedonia originally? I can't even get out of bed because I feel hopeless. I have been taking the l-tyrosine a few days now, no change yet. Thanks for the info.
@@gilgameshduchiha9529 Very bad, in the beginning I could no longer sleep, no longer eat, I lost 25 kg in that period., my taste was gone too. No more feelings, dead inside, could not cry, nothing and I have been to a clinic for 3 months, completely lost. No thoughts, empty inside, nothing interested me anymore, No more monologue with yourself, didn't care about anything, neither about myself nor my children, wife, no love or feelings. And that for 2 years, that's why I know what it is. Thought I would always stay that way but despite that situation I have always been looking for a solution and finally found it. More people have been helped with l-tyrosine, I hope this helps you too, how did you get this condition if I may ask? for me it was long-term stress.
I look into my moms eyes and feel nothing. I can feel sadness, frustration and annoyance... but I will go to the extreme and say, I don't feel love, empathy, anxiety, happiness or anything I felt only a short three months ago. I just want it to go away...
@@briandiaz8576 I'm not really sure how it happened. I know three months ago I had a brief brush with psychosis.. I was delusional and seeing things. I felt my emotions slowly slip away. Yesterday, my parents were yelling at me and I would go as far as to say I didn't feel guilt. I self diagnosed myself as a sociopath.. but you can't just develope that in three months? Before this I was an empath, creative, loving and super in touch with my emotions. It's terrible. I'd never want anybody to go through this. I've attempted to take my life twice since it started...
@@briandiaz8576 Yes! The good news is that I'm not a sociopath! I was diagnosed with BPD actually... but, as far as the numbness goes, it's went away a little bit with antidepressants and exercise! I'm still pretty muted, but I can feel my emotions coming back everyday :)
8 months ago, he I had a serious panic attack while working and then I went completely numb, I was put on several meds but they made me feel more numb, Had to be hospitalized due to the meds but when I got out the hospital that night I felt like someone turned on a switch in my back and my emotions came back to bad it only lasted for hours ever since then I have been anhedonic, this was August 22, today is March 8 still anhedonic hello fellow anhedonians stay strong..
Jackie, this is awesome! I went through anhedonia myself and only recently realized that's what it was. Joke about unknown unknowns :) Kudos for doing all the great works to spreading the word about this condition and help others! I hope more people will realize the root of the problem so they can give it a name and heal.
i’ve been feeling levels of this for a couple of years now and i want to talk to a therapist about it but i don’t wanna tell my parents or family because i fear they will judge and i don’t like snappiness and i feel that they will try to talk to me about it and i hate that
This is me. What's important to consider however is that there is anticipatory anhedonia & pleasure anhedonia. I can feel positive emotions by planning to do something, to the point I delay doing things so I can think more about how I'm going to do them. I don't feel anything when I'm engaging in an activity though.
@@Yeiren121 Yeah. Turns out I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & POTS. The contrast was that I'd plan things while in bed & get wrecked with orthostatic intolerance when I got up to do them. I can get light tasks done on my PC without anhedonia now that I've moved it so that I can use it while remaining horizontal. The anhedonia/numbness seems an issue of cranial bloodflow.
What if my Anhedonia isn't caused by antibiotics ? Mines isn't caused by anything, ever since I hit puberty I've always felt like a complete outsider, I've never been able to have connection to other people, I have no depth to me I'm basically soulless and I don't know what to do, I can't even feel love for my own family I honestly think I'd be better of dead I really don't see the point in living like this
For me I feel nothing positive. No joy, no excitement, no anticipation or anything good. I feel dull and frustrated. I feel anger and sadness. It's been this way for over a year and I've tried several antidepressants and nothing works. I want to be happy but I feel no hope things will ever get better.
This is precisely, my experience, having been off Benzos, 4 yrs. Actually brings on anxiety due to facing an entirely meaningless existence and falling into serious doubt of any credible basis of everything I once thought had meaning.
I use to feel emotion but was on SSRIs for 4 years and when I came off them I don't feel like I use to, I don't have the intense sadness but I don't feel happy either.
This is pretty much spot on with how I've been feeling lately. I was thinking to myself that I don't really remember feeling happiness in so long. I don't feel love. I don't even remember the last time I said I love you to someone. I do get sad, like you said that and anger are the two most common emotions present. I really can't live on like this. It has made my life miserable. When I talk to people, I feel so dead with no emotion or enthusiasm in my tone of voice. I can't make friends because of this which has resulted in me being really lonely. I don't know how to better myself :(
i feel empty, i don't even know how to love anyone anymore, i laugh all the time but i don't know why, there is nothing making me laugh, but I just do it.
I cant feel emotions and when bad stuff happens I just let them happen. I was raped by a guy who thought I was unconscious and even though I knew what he was doing and didnt want it I just had no urgency to move. I knew what was happening but I just kept laying there. This keeps happening. I keep having really bad and really good things happen to me and I either fake my enthusiasm if it means making someone happy, or just go full robot and my body just shuts down. What do I do? I cant afford the doctor and I'm tired of living like this
You get the ball rolling. Don’t live in what has happened to you...move on and fresh. Force yourself if you have to. Fake it till you make it and you WILL make it
I was sexually abused and beaten many many times by guys and that make me have the disorder but I force it and am noticing a difference. I’m very expressive when I comment on videos so ive been using that as a step towards recovering. I go to therapy and that helped but in the end felt pointless. I realized I can’t think about the past otherwise Itll repeat itself by my brain’s unwitting command. The subconscious is a powerful thing
I have had this for 2 years now after a rough breakup, I need serious help, I have tried to leap lain this to many people but they don't understand, sometimes I just feel like doing anything anymore and just staying in bed and just dying, I've spend a lot of money trying to feel but have gotten nowhere but in a lot of debt, I can't feel sad happy, excited, mad, nothing a lot of times I don't even feel tired any more, I do fake everything everyday. I go to work everyday and pretend I care about it but I really don't anymore, tv shows, sports hobbies, nothing! I don't even care about girls anymore I never even feel horney, I've slept with a few girls here and there but I don't feel anything when I have sex and I have a hard time getting hard because I just can't feel those good feelings, I guess I'm pretty much fucked!
Brent Bird Yeah, the sex part is the worst I think. You’ve pretty much got to avoid lots of social situations too because most of the conversations are about sex/relationships, so it’s just a constant reminder that you’re broken. You made any progress on sorting it?
My reason for this state is the same, I have never heard of anyone so far! I have been hurt so badly emotionally... taken my humanity and dignity from me, denied all compassion, being falsely accused, by a person I honestly never thought would be capable of such ruthless mistreatment of another human being, ever. Guess that's why they has to falsely accuse me and twist all my words. But tge ppint is, that is the reason I am this way. I waa unae towork through and "make sense" of that experience and move on.
This is so sad i cant feel a thing i feel like i can never go back to normal with my boyfriend or my family, i know i love all of them i just try so hard to feel happiness or love around them
I had depression, I had little emotions although they were still there, but I got worse after I developed existential OCD (it’s where you obsess over things of the universe that our brains can’t comprehend) and then I went from being just depressed to completely flatlined. It’s awful because not only had I flatlined but I was also tormented by my OCD thoughts at the same time. It’s caused my brain to slow down a lot and I’m struggling to focus on my classes. It really sucks. The only thing that has helped so far has been prayer and having people praying for me. I’m not on SSRIs at the moment. I really hope I can make it out of this and I wish I could get in contact with someone who’s been through the same yet overcome.
Hello Paul. I hope this writing finds you. I thought of a few things to lightly look at that may be of use for you .... Could the classes you are doing be possibly causally related to the onset or worsening of your current state of experience? Also, have you experienced periods or general anxiety in your life experience? Did you experience lots of alone time growing up or were not engaged with meaningfully (left to fend for oneself even if you were amongst others)? It really sounds like you are overwhelmed where your emotions become too compressed & perhaps your ability to express the nature of what weighs on you is likely not easy for most people to grasp leaving little emotional oxygen left for you to breathe/experience life's moments. You do not sound underwhelmed (bored). I can understand perhaps how prayer might help you or being prayed for as one is you reaching out for help / sharing your truth by lightening your load, and being prayed for brings a felt sense that others outside of yourself care enough to reach out for God's help on your behalf. You don't have be Atlas with the world on your shoulders or general manager of the universe by the way! Anything to take you out of isolation .. connect with people ... via online groups etc & the biggie is take some actions about your concerns so you convert your worries into tangible reality that way you are part of a solution for yourself and others around you / the world we live in which may empower you! Checkout the still face experiment & TBRI attachment (on youtube). Sometimes our upbringing can set us up to struggle if we did not have good modeling or perhaps the questions that are beset upon your mind are beyond one persons ability to solve by ourselves. I believe we all need a witness to our inner experience it helps put us at ease..Checkout NVC ( Non Violent Communication or Co-counseling) Here is a Great book titled The Mind Gymnasium ( Dennis Postle)which is a gold mine of meaningful understanding orientated around the human experience + The personal management handbook by John Mulligan. Hope you find some of this useful.
Thank you so much for rhis. I have been like this for a very long time and didn't know what it was, never thought it was depression and now I know. Had friends but could never get close to them and recently I started cutting them off one by one, I've distant myself from people and pretty much stay to myself in my room. For years I haven't been to close with my daughter but every now and then I would hug her because I felt I had to not because I wanted to. I still function every day and do what I have to but I feel nothing and your video explains it all.
Patricia Macak this is me. I’m 21 now and for as long as I can remember I’ve been like this. My mom would always ask me when I’d be with my dad for a few days if I missed her. And to be honest I didn’t at all. Even when I hadn’t seen her in forever. I’d even tell her I didn’t but she’d just say that I need to open up and it’s okay to say that I missed her. Now years later at 21, she sees I’m still the same. She knows I’ve always been single so she tells me I need to go meet a nice girl and I’ll feel happy again. I tried. This girl I met really likes me a lot. She tells me without hesitation and loves to talk to me and hug me. She seems like she truly cares, always asking how I am, if I got home safe etc. She’s a super sweet girl, pretty too, but I just couldn’t feel anything. And this bugged me a lot. I’ll hug her back, smile back at her, but when I do these things I don’t feel a single thing. I’m giving it a little more time hoping that I’ll feel something, but I don’t want to do that to her. It’s just a one sided thing. I know she sees how cold I can be, how dull I am, yet she still tries. I’m to the point where I could be perfectly fine if someone I always talked to disappeared. I want to feel again. I hate being like this. People always tell me I’m to serious. I try not to be. I try to be more open and joke with friends, but I just don’t feel any connections at all.
My anorexia turned to ahdedonia and I’ve had it since 8th grade. It comes and goes but they’re hand in hand. I have no dopamine releases from overeating ...I don’t masturbate or have sex I have no interest. I have a son who makes me genuinely happy and love him tho. Although It took a while. At first he was a stranger to me but I think that’s normal? I’ve always just wanted to be normal. I don’t care if I live or die but I’m not at all sad just matter of fact. I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been and I control my anorexia by eating clean. But again, no dopamine from restricting and no dopamine from overeating. Too long of this has become numbing
I have had this for 5 years. Since I was 14. It's been hell and I thought I was the only one, everyone was calling it depression and it isn't. It's awful but the memory issues are what I've realised recently. I remember at the start of this I could still feel nostalgia so i would find comfort in thinking about past memories. But once nostalgia went, so did the memories nd the emotional attachment. If I focus very hard I can see pictures of memories but they are all so fuzzy like it's my first memory ever. And it doesn't matter how significant it once was to me. This has made me realise that memories are primarily down to the emotional affect it had on you. This means that because I haven't been able to have emotional attachments to anything since 2015, it's like I'm stuck in time in 2015, before the Anhedonia. I can't participate in my own life so it's now 2020 and it feels like it shouldn't be because my mind is still in 2015. It's very distressing. It's awful that there isn't much information on this condition. I hope science progresses. And I am going to try this programme. I've got nothing to lose now.
Kinda same.. Ever since I entered high school my life's just a blur. And now it's been 3 months since I can literally not feel emotion - they have always been not very strong but that was still better than this.. :/
@@katenka_ana3997 speak to someone if you can, show them this video. I'm not saying anyone will understand but they may. And never give up fighting for your mental health because you deserve to be happy and experience life. I've realised mine is probably due to trauma and its a dissociative disorder so I'm going to seek out trauma therapy
I am not feeling anything like past 3 years. I think its from depression and trauma. Cause 3 years ago I lost my 2 Brothers on the traffic accident and 1 year later out of nowhere my dad just died. And then 1 months later My closest friend's father passed away. And I remember When I was at the burying ceremony suddenly i relized I was not feeling anything at all. Now I am 18 a normal person need to feel grief when he think back but me I can t feel anything I dont even remember when I Visited my father and my brothers.
This is exactly how I've felt for almost a year now and I'm 17. I have been depressed for 4 years. I've also suffered from childhood neglect and seen many things that kinda traumatized me since I was only a kid. As I grew older, I saw that everyone left my life including my parents. When I was depressed, when a friend left, I cried. When my dad did smth, I cried. But I learnt a lot of things about my dad and basically everyone around me all together. Honestly speaking, I dont even get calls or texts on my phone andit's been 2 months since I did. I just suddenly started feeling nothing. When I felt sad, I didn't cry. If a tear came out, soon I laughed out this laugh which was even creeping me out. Literally, nothing feels now. No happiness, sadness, angereslove.Nothing. Im like a walking zombie. No one takes me to a therapist,I dont ask either.
I've been struggling with this for so long without realizing! 2 weeks ago I had finished spending 10 days in the hospital because I had some sort of suicidal crisis. I wanted to commit suicide because all I could feel was anger, ressentment and misery (not even sadness). I work with children and often maaged to be a champion jumping from a group to another forming bounds and swiftly answering their needs so to speak to promote their development. Today, I feel like a monster. A big ugly one with horns on his head and claws for fingers. All I can feel is anger with those kids... I surpress it so to speak by focusing on whatever positive these children possess (which is easy as children are enormous wells of potential). But that is not enough. They can see your soul. So when you comfort them and the feeling is not their in your heart, they know it instinctively so they end up even sadder. I know all this because I studied attachment for so long in university and what scares is that I should feel absolutely horrified at the consequences of this that being disorganized types of attachments with me. But I feel nothing. Nothing when a child cries, when they succeeded something they could not before or even when they give caring hugs. I feel only when they misbehave (one dreadfull message) so I try to fake a tone or a smile! This is destroying my career as it robs me of those precious radars of emotions. A truest example pf you do not know the value of what you lost until you did, as before I would state that too many emotions is a demise whereas the opposite makes you a good scientist but false again... How can a scientist study the objective components if he does not care about said rock? What motivates him to do that instead of gaming of lighting a joint? These emotions (whichever kind) we take for granted and must nurture! Yesterday, I found myself glad that I could feel slight sadness after 2 weeks of meditation! Today I am glad to see that you can overcome this ever so slightly.
I’m so scared of this, I’m 21 an I’ve been studying childcare for 5 years an I feel like every bit of information I’ve learned has gone out my head since my memory is so bad an my emotions are just so dull🥺 I wanna be able to have kids some day an feel an amazing connection an true love an I’m scared I’ll never experience that again
So sorry to hear this and unfortunately it is completely normal for people with Emotional Flatlining to not feel anything for any kids - even your own. I could feel nothing for mine. But I faked it, and I really believe it was fine. I understand attachment theory, and for "normal" people who don't feel I can see how the child senses this. But flatlining is a different brain mechanism. I'm not a doctor and I can't prove this, I just now that my kids told me they couldn't tell I had flatlining after it was all over. So keep on faking it. I'm going to try and make a video on this. But most importantly, check out our website to do what you can to get over it!
Quit weed 70 days ago and hit flatlining. Intimacy has no joy anymore. Stress of quitting plus selfish people in my life has been detrimental to recovery. Its sad people around me don't give a crap who they hurt as long as they get their own way. Beside anger i feel dead inside. Sigh
i will never ever in my heart would wish this experience to anyone not even to my worst enemy!!! thanks to Kim Gloria for her clear comment! you just confirm my "analysis". shucks i'm feeling bright but whatever!
I lost my mother 5 years ago, just after my 17th birthday, and now I feel nothing. My life is falling apart because of it. All the people I cared about feel meaningless to me now, my family, friends and boyfriend included. I know I care about them but I just don't feel like I do. This is hell.
@Sarah JLA Still the same...I went to therapy last year so I can talk about my thoughts and emotions a bit better now...but I still barely FEEL anything
@@liran1234567 I'd like to say better, I think I have improved a little bit, I'm trying to communicate my feelings as much as possible at least, but the numbness is still there. I'm sorry you are suffering with the same
Before: my friend crack a joke Me: hahaha so funny Now: my friends having fun and laugh Me: he..he fake laugh nothing excite anymore no adrenaline rush. Iam tired of living this fake life I want to die...please tell me easy way to die.
GODD3VIL BF hey I’m also suffering from this and I would really like to talk to somebody who is experiencing it too, I just have some questions and I want to be able to talk to someone who can relate. I see that you’re the only person who recently commented on this video so if you don’t mind can we please chat ? My Instagram name is its_jlees. If you don’t have Instagram you can message me on here and we can find another way to connect. Hope to hear from you
I need help...I'm gone,done ...I feel nothing...damn...I think I did this..I played guitar professionally for years.. did a lot of meth..and i feel nothing, except pain sorrow,sadness..
Hey Bobby, My name is Les. I had forgotten I wrote this.I've taken many different anti depressants over the years. haven't taken anything for a couple years but it's gotten so bad that I've decided to give a drug called Viibryd a try. Keep trying...I know it's tough but we have to keep going. I've been takin it for a week now and I'll have to say I'm feeling a little better...I wish you peace too
STRICKEN I'm 18 , I have the same feeling.. I feel literally dead. I can't even have grief and cry, I have nothing. No feelings at all. It's the most painful thing ever.. The feeling of emptiness. The only thing I want to know is, will I ever get back to the state I was in before anhedonia? Is it really curable ? These are the doubts that kill me even more.
+Beev I've learned to have fun with it. If you are numb to emotion, you can be riskier, treat life like a game. You can go ahead and do your job interview without a care in the world. If you can't have emotions, embrace the numbness. I'm also quite competitive so I don't know if it would work for you.
I'm in this state while being on antidepressants. A complete zombie. Without them however, I feel emotions (except excitability) but they are way out of control.
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Jackie, Thank You for this presentation, You described Me through this whole video. I've been treated for the last 25 years for depression with some success with meds. I quit my meds over 2 yrs ago and felt good for 6-7 months, then I started feeling sick and would get depressed on and off for another few months and one day I felt so sick and depressed like I never felt in my life, got back on my meds and it helped for a while but then came this feeling that You describe of Emotional Flatlining that took me over. And I lost interest in everything. Even listening to music on the way to work. I couldn't even feel sad anymore. I work in a hospital and so tough to be around people. Got into a bad car accident last year that wasn't my fault and Totalled my car and I was lucky to walk away with no injuries, but I didn't feel anything. I wasn't even shook up or anything, just emotionless. I was so numb and had no feeling before the accident, that the accident didn't feel like anything. I hope I'm making sense. Thanks for listening.
I don't believe this person can over come this condition. And she said it herself, it neurological and their isn't anything you can do. She has some things wrong. She thinks that you feel alone and not understood because others don't understand. But you don't feel alone because that is an emotion. And you don't feel frustrated either. And there is thing wrong with acting like your happy and thoughtful. As long as you make others feel good you're still given them something of yourself.
there is certainly something we can do about it, as so many people who've used her program have attested . And like she said, people with emotional flatlining can, to some extent, experience negative emotions; I wouldn't necessarily call it feeling the negative emotion, because you can't really feel anything, but you definitely experience being isolated from others, and such is also the case with me. Words like 'feel' are so ambiguous, you can't always know whether someone means exactly the thing you think they mean, because you're seeing it from your perspective. What she has explained exactly describes what I'm going through, so please don't just so casually dismiss the hard work she's doing. And yeah there's nothing wrong with acting like you care as long as the other person is benefitted i guess, but it makes it so much harder to continue doing it, and you desire that there should be some genuineness to your help, which you seem unable to summon.
I feel I have this but I dont wanna self diagnose and I'm a teen so relatively people will think it's for attention...At first I thought it was deppression... It still might be...But I honestly would kill to make the feeling of anything...I now am unmotivated... The hormones I'm supposed to have are lessened and its put me in a midlife crisis....I'm failing classes cuz I procrastinate...I even feel nothing on my gender....I honestly dont know what to do.
@@godd3vil447 Hey,how u doin'? I hope everything's doing alright.I just wanna ask you if you purchased her course and if this is really working? I tried to contact @ the Original because he wanted to share with me the program but since then he didn't reply.Fill me in thanks .Regards
Yes, according to DSM-5 anhedonia and depression are not separate. But Ahedonia and Emotional Flatlining are different conditions in the way I'm walking about them, and Emotional Flatining is not a type of depression based on my work, which is my opinion and not medical advice.
I have anhedonia/emotional flatlining, I’m going through a breakup and I desperately want to be able to cry and let it out but I literally can’t, and when I DO cry I feel like I have to force it and when I don’t force it and it just comes out I don’t feel like I’m connected to myself crying, i don’t know if that makes sense I am not sure how else to explain it. I want to feel positive emotions again yes, but I also want to feel my sadness again too (not bc I want to be sad but because I miss crying and feel my emotions while crying rather than now I cry and feel no connection). Please reply with any thoughts you may have.
That is classic Emotional Flatlining. You can't feel grief because you have to be able to care, and caring is a function of the brain's reward pathway, and this pathway is not working. Some people can't feel any negative emotion either, but most just lose the ability to feel positive feelings. This makes perfect sense, and I know it's devastating...
Wow, I've been taking antibiotics lately, good to know it may be because of that. I was getting worried, everything I care for feels so flat right now.
Is it bad that I don’t feel sad as well as happy I don’t mind I just get yelled at by family for not being sad at funerals and stuff. But I don’t mind it
@@austinwyant2928 Well the doctors prescribed me with 50mg Sertraline. It took at least 2 months before I saw changes. I started to supplement with vitamins like fish oil and vitamin B. After my sleep improved everything seemed alot better. Before taking any medication find out what is really causing this, for me it was leaving negative people behind. I'm no longer on anti depressants but I'm now supplementing with 5htp and I love it
Really brilliant. I am an integrative medicine practitioner (in training) and I agree with what Allah said down below. The physical and mental are so intimately interwoven. Have you ever tried probiotic implants (not orally ingesting probiotics...but putting them directly in the colon. They are a game changer!
This came in my suggestion like crazy this is exactly how am feeling...I cant even express how much i relate to this....goddddddd!... How to heal from this...
VITAMIN D IS VERY IMPORTANT. YOU NEED SUNLIGHT TO MAKE DOPAMINE AND TESTOSTERONE, YOU ALSO NEED CHOLESTEROL. PLEASE GET YOUR VITAMIN D LEVELS CHECKED IF YOUR DEPRESSED OR HAVE ANHEDONIA. IT CAUSED MINE
Yes they can. It's interesting though as I've had some people do fine with an antidepressant that caused flatlining for someone else. So it seems very individual
What's it called when you can't get sad about anything anymore but can laugh and smile. I dont get sad or angry.... maybe frustrated sometimes... I feel numb... Can't remember things .... Can't cry when loved ones die.... Am I becoming a psychopath i don't have any want to hurt people or steal my moral compass still exists.... But if I had to shoot someone I dont think it would bother me anymore... Not that I would ever harm anyone
3 doctors considering me ECT because of anhedonia I'm suffering from anhedonia from 2 years this is result of antidepressants which I'm taking from 17 years I'm 32 years old and have my marriage after 7 month my condition is worse then you thing I can't eat anything and I can't even get out of the bed please help me regarding that
Affective flattening doen't just mean lack of positive emotions but lack of any emotion thus all emotion even negative ones are diminished thus easy to go through, less anxious, less irritable, less angry and so on, thus useful too.
I haven't felt anything in years, instead I'm just very good at faking it. Been faking it since I was a child so when I'm "pretending" I actually believe that I'm feeling it but on reflection I was not.
rebecca finn I do the same as well
Low estrogen and low serotonin most likely, its the constant worry built up through the years that shuts down your brain, when I began taking ssris I began feeling emotions after some months, most likely because I started eating shit loads of crap food, I quit it tho, some years later I began working out, taking multivitamins, omega 3, eating very clean and lost shit loads of weight, then I began taking another multivitamin Animal pak wish had 8 pills a pack, the more I took it the more I began feeling flat, I felt like a zombie, no emotions at all I felt like a total psychopath, then my libido got down loads, I quit animal pak, still was flat for months until I began taking Liquid chlorophyll from now foods, after 3 days taking it I cried with joy because I began feeling things again, it has copper in it, I also took zma before when I was flat sending my copper even lower, it also balances your hormones, if you have low estrogen your serotonin production will suffer, making your dopamine higher with more worry, people that are oversensitive has copper overload aka copper toxicity, because copper is needed for serotonin to cross the blood brain barrier, I really suggest you try it out, it kills my anxiety and depression at the same time and also gives me strong confidence, also try maca root, If you feel flat, low libido and probably low appetite? And confidence, liquid chlorophyll will for sure fix it trust me
@@daveyboi8275 read my comment
You should also check your thyroid, liver and gut health
Sad but true
I think i have this its to protect from people hurting you anymore.
Exactly
I have it and be careful Cuz it can carry onto those you should care about
That is actually nonsense. The high cortisol concentration just blocks the pleasure centres in the brain.
Cause is high stress.
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@@coolguy1298 which one?
IMO, I respect a psychologist who has crawled out of the deepest pits of depression rather than a fake who only studied the material.
Me too
Exactly, we need more mentors/people like Jackie. A mentor who has been there and done it.
Same, seems like she is just selling something something.
Agreed
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This is me. I feel nothing. Sometimes I feel sadness but I feel numb. This is how people get close to suicide.
Nah actually. I dont feel suicidal
I got anhedonia from deperzonalization, and I got deperzonalization from a panic attack on weed, deperzonalization u feel like your in a dream, and like everything is fake, u feel like your out of your body and u feel emotionally numb, I don't really feel like I'm in a dream but I do feel numb sometimes less sometimes more, depends
sandra munoz how are you feeling currently?
sandra munoz.. it helps to know I'm not alone. thankyou
If you lose any interest & pleasure in life, why carry on? Seems to be a reasonable question.
Nice to have a name to my demon.
you may Like the book restored to freedom by Nelson Schuman he also has a you tube channel "restored to freedom "?
Your demon has friends ;(
Did you got your feeling by the program
Yes, this is exactly what I thought
I can totally relate to this 100%. I've been walking around like this for years.
Anhedonia: No positive feelings but blunted negative ones. My immediate thought upon realizing this was _“Welcome to Purgatory"_
yo i thought I was in purgatory for a long while too
@Sarah JLA what caused anhedonia for you?
I had a hard life as child, harder as a teenager when i started feeling depressed. i wasn't numb yet but i started getting more sad and less happy (could still feel happiness tho) then one time when i was 16 i got so angry over something i could not feel anymore joy after. only anger sadness and frustration... almost 5 years down the line i started experiancing numbness, had a huge panic attack and became depersonalized, gradually started loosing the ability to feel even "negative" emotions like anger and sadness... yet they still lurk within me despertly trying to come out. and it is VERY hard to feel them when you're numb. the moral of my story is. its better to be able the negative emotions then to have none...
I was on SSRI's. I still have interest in eating, exercising, and sleeping. I still feel angry. But I'm not feeling anything else. I can't laugh. I can't cry.
how are you now? I have same experience
This is very similar to my case, though it's not all the time, more like very often bouts of it, and when i do feel more normal it's still usually dulled, and then rarely i feel actually good
I no longer feel sad when my family members die. I don't feel anything, I'm so used to the cold shoulder, death, and all that I don't even care anymore. to not be calm is alien to me I hate showing my anger or sadness.
Thank you so much for this video! I feel like this is the first time I felt understood or validated in what I have been going through. I have been feeling devastated because I been feeling horrible about not feeling a certain way when I know I should. It makes me feel like a monster and is eating me inside.
I blamed myself and thought I was just Aloof or completely selfish. This video helped place things in perspective for me.
The thing that disturbs me the most is the last two, which have made me become avoidant, because I feel awful for acting.
I'm so glad there is a solution to this. Will visit the website. Thank you very much!
Kyreem I get that avoidance because you feel fake...I became a BIT of a hermit. But fake it till you make it was my dad’s motto. If you make the faces, the emotion will eventually come I promise. But you have to keep positive which is the HARDEST part my dude
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@@sugarcakezz Thanks for the encouragement!
Antipsychotic drugs will make you feel nothing you will lose interests in everything do not take them no matter how down or anxious you feel go run practice sport do not take them.
Yup. This is what seroquel did to me -.-
My wife just left me. Shes on sertraline. Says she feels something's missing, doesnt love me and theres no excitement in our relationship. She was so loving and happy before her meds but she wont listen to me when i say it could be her meds
Des... I am in the same situation as you. Loving wife with the best 10 year old son that parents could ever wish for. My wife (now ex wife) started taking Lexapro due to stress at work. Four weeks later, she filed for divorce out of the blue. She told me that we had grown apart and that she felt like we were roommates. No emotions at all. Before that, our relationship was great... married for 16 years! I told her about the research regarding "Medication Spellbinding" (Dr. Peter Breggin) and that SSRIs remove one's abilities to feel emotions. She got extremely mad at me for mentioning it, and still does to this day whenever I mention it. She recently moved 4 states away, in essence abandoning our son. What a great crime that has been portrayed upon us by doctors and big pharma. They know that this is happening but refuse to do anything about it.
I'm on Pristiq, an antidepressant. I feel very flat and my libido is gone..zero. not even a sensation down like I've been castrated. I don't know what to do. I've tried many antidepressants and I always get these two side effects. It looks like I'll be single forever :(
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I don’t know how to explain this but I feel so relieved seeing this video everything matches up with every way I feel and do I have reached out for help and no one understands but this is exactly it
Same here, it felt like she knew everything that was going on in my head and turned it into words.
True..nobody understood me..these comments makes me feel that am not alone
I developed anhedonia after some severely traumatic experiences. I understand now it was my mind's way of protecting me from intense grief, fear, etc. At some point, it just sort of became permanent. I started seeing a therapist and it's been helpful. I have started feeling some emotion again. A lot of what I've done is just understanding and reminding myself that I am safe now, and that experience is not there any longer, and there is no reason to need to protect myself any longer by cutting off emotions. Sometimes, even just vocalizing that I'm safe now, is enough to feel little bits of emotion. It's interesting.
I wish the info in this program was shared for free and for the good of everyone.
The info is free on the website on how to do the program. There is also a paid program too with more resources. I only charge for the paid program to cover my costs and volunteer my time to run it.
I'm really glad you are getting your feelings back!
@@emotionalflatlininganhedon2232 Thanks for clarifying. I can understand needing to cover costs to run the program, that makes sense. Hopefully one day this issue will be more understood and recognized, and there will be more help available for people. I wish everyone dealing with this success. Don't give up! Recently, I've discovered that I do feel emotions, but they seem to be delayed by several hours or maybe even days. It sort of seems like a sign to me that i'm slowly becoming more comfortable with emotions again. Now a days, whenever I feel an emotion, even one that is very uncomfortable, I really latch on to it while it's there, try to feel it in its entirety. I hope that this will help reinforce that emotions are safe, and there is no reason to push them away. So far, I think it's really helping. I am grateful for any emotion I feel. Hopefully this comment will help someone one day.
I am close to a guy that told me when each one of his 3 kids were born, he was in the delivery room, literally waiting to experience that intense passion, love, awe, etc. that you are 'supposed' to get when your children are born. But, he felt nothing. Not even the burden of more responsibility. He also shared with me that what bothered him most when his mother died was that it didn't really bother him at all. He's also shared with me that he feels as though he never got his 'script' for living life. I think he needs to know more about anhedonia.
absolutely. He sounds like a classic case of emotional flatlining. You can direct him to the site and see if he identifies with it.
Omg I now know what I'm going through in 17 and my family just get angry at me for saying I don't feel emotions I just simply can't I want to and in very willing too I just can't x
Any update?
I don't feel pleasure in any form. I don't eat much because it does nothing for me. I don't have sex because it does nothing for me. I could go on and on but you catch my drift right?
Anhedonia, when I first heard the word I didn't have a clue what it meant. Now I do, I know exactly what it means.
I have emotional flatlining which basically I don't feel happiness, sadness, anxiety, anger, joy just nothing.... it's so bad
Are you on psych meds??????
You've just described what I'm going through perfectly! its not a reduction, but an inability to generate any good feeling. I'll work with your program and see how things go, thank you❤
have you seen results?
@@Jajajaja63227 I wouldn't say I am not feeling slightly better than I did three months ago, but the depth that I previously had while feeling anything good is still lacking,, there have been moments where I felt that I was able to actually feel, though very weakly, and momentarily, but I'm not entirely certain if I'm not making that up. I just think maybe it's too early to say.
also I stopped doing the exercise for about ten days in the middle, because i was very busy, but resumed it again. this was a month back, I've done it regularly since, so that's another point to note i guess..
i can let you know in a few more months again, if you wish..
My anhedonia came when I started taking antipsychotics drugs for my depression. I never felt too much pleassure, but after that I felt nothing. I stopped using them two months ago and now I feel normal again.
The only time I can feel is while listening to music. And music is extremely intense.
Music has almost no effect on me :/
@@katenka_ana3997 Most of the time, I don't feel anything while listening to music eather actually that was the first reason that I noticed that I'm pretty much emotional numb.
But you could maybe find anything you enjoy, even if it's only sometimes. Do it often. For me it's reading books
It's actually caused by abuse, being the victim of it. A certain degree of emotionality can trigger buried negative emotions so people have to cut off all emotion because they're so overwhelmed at that level by what they have experienced as victims. The cutting off process occurs at the unconscious level I would say.
I think this is what may have happened to me. I have not been able to get out of this state
Yea, I think this is how I got into it as well.
That is very well explained.
It can be caused by drug use too. In her case, it was antibiotics.
exactly. i jst seem to go thru the same type of trauma and rejections over and over again that i think my brain just completely shut down in order not to be hurt. it makes sense
I don’t feel my emotions nor hear my thoughts . Someone help
I wish I could,, I believe in you
Ok. There are times while feeling low that I just stare and feel blank, but then I go back to being sad. I do FEEL sadness and even cry and grieve for my losses and my old life. I miss my friends and my dog that died after 14 years with him. So I hope I do not have anhedonia. I feel hopeless, down, sad, anger, discouraged, but CANNOT feel happiness. I cannot feel anything positive AT ALL, but can feel grief. That grief is the only one on the list I CAN feel. I used to be a comedian and hyper and full of life. I travelled and was a great photographer. Now all I do is lay down. I hate meds though. Refuse to take psych meds.
My anhedonia has come from a lot of long-term stress.
I had nothing left, no feeling, no emotions, no motivations, no fear.
I was a complete zombie, dead on the inside.
I have had anhedonia for 2 years, what helped me is l-tyrosine.
Now it's all coming back, just before I had anhedonia, so there is a cure.
hi, how long did it take to get rid of your anhedonia with l-tyrosine? How many times did you take the pill? Is your anhedonia still gone? please let me know. Thank you
@@gilgameshduchiha9529 In 3 to 4 days I already noticed a difference, I use 1 or 2 a day 500mg and that for a few weeks, I hardly use it anymore because it is gone.
@@yoda747 thank you so much. I got the 750mg capsules. I will take 1 or 2 a day in the morning/noon and I hope it will help.
@@yoda747 how bad was your anhedonia originally? I can't even get out of bed because I feel hopeless. I have been taking the l-tyrosine a few days now, no change yet. Thanks for the info.
@@gilgameshduchiha9529 Very bad, in the beginning I could no longer sleep, no longer eat, I lost 25 kg in that period., my taste was gone too.
No more feelings, dead inside, could not cry, nothing and I have been to a clinic for 3 months, completely lost.
No thoughts, empty inside, nothing interested me anymore,
No more monologue with yourself, didn't care about anything, neither about myself nor my children, wife, no love or feelings.
And that for 2 years, that's why I know what it is.
Thought I would always stay that way but despite that situation I have always been looking for a solution and finally found it.
More people have been helped with l-tyrosine, I hope this helps you too, how did you get this condition if I may ask? for me it was long-term stress.
I look into my moms eyes and feel nothing. I can feel sadness, frustration and annoyance... but I will go to the extreme and say, I don't feel love, empathy, anxiety, happiness or anything I felt only a short three months ago. I just want it to go away...
How did you become anhedonic?
@@briandiaz8576 I'm not really sure how it happened. I know three months ago I had a brief brush with psychosis.. I was delusional and seeing things. I felt my emotions slowly slip away. Yesterday, my parents were yelling at me and I would go as far as to say I didn't feel guilt. I self diagnosed myself as a sociopath.. but you can't just develope that in three months? Before this I was an empath, creative, loving and super in touch with my emotions. It's terrible. I'd never want anybody to go through this. I've attempted to take my life twice since it started...
I thought it was my antipsychotic meds but I stopped taking those on January 25th
Have you sought help since?
@@briandiaz8576 Yes! The good news is that I'm not a sociopath! I was diagnosed with BPD actually... but, as far as the numbness goes, it's went away a little bit with antidepressants and exercise! I'm still pretty muted, but I can feel my emotions coming back everyday :)
8 months ago, he I had a serious panic attack while working and then I went completely numb, I was put on several meds but they made me feel more numb, Had to be hospitalized due to the meds but when I got out the hospital that night I felt like someone turned on a switch in my back and my emotions came back to bad it only lasted for hours ever since then I have been anhedonic, this was August 22, today is March 8 still anhedonic hello fellow anhedonians stay strong..
How are you now?
Are u still anhedonic?
did you recover?
I just want to feel crying again its like i forgot to cry and im trying it everyday just f*ck 🤣
Jackie, this is awesome! I went through anhedonia myself and only recently realized that's what it was. Joke about unknown unknowns :) Kudos for doing all the great works to spreading the word about this condition and help others! I hope more people will realize the root of the problem so they can give it a name and heal.
i’ve been feeling levels of this for a couple of years now and i want to talk to a therapist about it but i don’t wanna tell my parents or family because i fear they will judge and i don’t like snappiness and i feel that they will try to talk to me about it and i hate that
This is me. What's important to consider however is that there is anticipatory anhedonia & pleasure anhedonia. I can feel positive emotions by planning to do something, to the point I delay doing things so I can think more about how I'm going to do them. I don't feel anything when I'm engaging in an activity though.
I thought I'm the only one, that needs to prepare before acting 🎭
Bro same are you still struggling with this
@@Yeiren121 Yeah. Turns out I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & POTS. The contrast was that I'd plan things while in bed & get wrecked with orthostatic intolerance when I got up to do them. I can get light tasks done on my PC without anhedonia now that I've moved it so that I can use it while remaining horizontal. The anhedonia/numbness seems an issue of cranial bloodflow.
This is the most extensive video on YT I found. And I must say, all those points you enlisted? Wow...jackpot....
WOW! Finalny someone named all this crap I've been dealing with....especially number 10, and I have great intellectual capabilities...breakthrough....
What if my Anhedonia isn't caused by antibiotics ? Mines isn't caused by anything, ever since I hit puberty I've always felt like a complete outsider, I've never been able to have connection to other people, I have no depth to me I'm basically soulless and I don't know what to do, I can't even feel love for my own family I honestly think I'd be better of dead I really don't see the point in living like this
Your gut flora might still be disturbed by poor diet, didn't get it from your mother, or for whatever other reason.
You need to get your testosterone checked out.
@@anthonyrez7000 it's a spiritual problem, it's nothing to do with testosterone or my body, I have demons in me.
Anhedonia is presumably very dangerous, if you lose any pleasure in life, what is the point of continuing?
That is the question we have to endure every single day
Ssri monster drugs
Great information. Will check out the website. Thank you very much. Gives hope. 🥰
She’s giving examples from her own life that’s pretty cool
For me I feel nothing positive. No joy, no excitement, no anticipation or anything good. I feel dull and frustrated. I feel anger and sadness. It's been this way for over a year and I've tried several antidepressants and nothing works. I want to be happy but I feel no hope things will ever get better.
How are you now
@@jun10rf3 I'm doing better. Still a little depressed sometimes but I'm learning to enjoy life a little more now. Thanks for asking.
This is precisely, my experience, having been off Benzos, 4 yrs. Actually brings on anxiety due to facing an entirely meaningless existence and falling into serious doubt of any credible basis of everything I once thought had meaning.
What do you believe caused your anhedonia?
I use to feel emotion but was on SSRIs for 4 years and when I came off them I don't feel like I use to, I don't have the intense sadness but I don't feel happy either.
Cav L Me too! It was 5 years on SSRIs for me. The depression is gone but I never got the feelings back. It’s been 8 years.
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Same here!
SSRIs induced emotional numbness can start after discontinuing meds.
Those pills are poisons!
This 15 min video was more helpful then hours with my therapist, guess talking about emotions when not having emotions is kinda useless.
This is pretty much spot on with how I've been feeling lately. I was thinking to myself that I don't really remember feeling happiness in so long. I don't feel love. I don't even remember the last time I said I love you to someone. I do get sad, like you said that and anger are the two most common emotions present. I really can't live on like this. It has made my life miserable. When I talk to people, I feel so dead with no emotion or enthusiasm in my tone of voice. I can't make friends because of this which has resulted in me being really lonely. I don't know how to better myself :(
i feel empty, i don't even know how to love anyone anymore, i laugh all the time but i don't know why, there is nothing making me laugh, but I just do it.
I understand you!
@@moulee7448 Do you really? That is such a relief.. Lately it's becoming worse- no one understands me anymore- even my close friends :/
Yeah... Probably to feel something... I say that because that's where I'm at now, and I'm 16
@@Andrew-wy9qy it’s been a year and I still feel the same, I’m here if you need to talk to anyone!
@@ellszszx5062 Hell yeah. You got Discord?
I miss enjoying music like i did. I was a beautiful pianist. I have no interest and therefore lost creativity.
Same. I can’t create art without feelings
There is a new discovery in two areas: genetics and microbiology. I think the science with find solutions soon.
I would really wish to have freedom of this burden 😢
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What discovery?
I cant feel emotions and when bad stuff happens I just let them happen. I was raped by a guy who thought I was unconscious and even though I knew what he was doing and didnt want it I just had no urgency to move. I knew what was happening but I just kept laying there. This keeps happening. I keep having really bad and really good things happen to me and I either fake my enthusiasm if it means making someone happy, or just go full robot and my body just shuts down. What do I do? I cant afford the doctor and I'm tired of living like this
You have such an unfortunate life
Are you doing any better? 😔❤ I'm the same now, I've had lots of trauma and now I feel nothing
You get the ball rolling. Don’t live in what has happened to you...move on and fresh. Force yourself if you have to. Fake it till you make it and you WILL make it
I was sexually abused and beaten many many times by guys and that make me have the disorder but I force it and am noticing a difference. I’m very expressive when I comment on videos so ive been using that as a step towards recovering. I go to therapy and that helped but in the end felt pointless. I realized I can’t think about the past otherwise Itll repeat itself by my brain’s unwitting command. The subconscious is a powerful thing
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I try my best to express my joy and happiness, but then get frustrated if I can’t.
I have had this for 2 years now after a rough breakup, I need serious help, I have tried to leap lain this to many people but they don't understand, sometimes I just feel like doing anything anymore and just staying in bed and just dying, I've spend a lot of money trying to feel but have gotten nowhere but in a lot of debt, I can't feel sad happy, excited, mad, nothing a lot of times I don't even feel tired any more, I do fake everything everyday. I go to work everyday and pretend I care about it but I really don't anymore, tv shows, sports hobbies, nothing! I don't even care about girls anymore I never even feel horney, I've slept with a few girls here and there but I don't feel anything when I have sex and I have a hard time getting hard because I just can't feel those good feelings, I guess I'm pretty much fucked!
Brent Bird Yeah, the sex part is the worst I think. You’ve pretty much got to avoid lots of social situations too because most of the conversations are about sex/relationships, so it’s just a constant reminder that you’re broken. You made any progress on sorting it?
My reason for this state is the same, I have never heard of anyone so far! I have been hurt so badly emotionally... taken my humanity and dignity from me, denied all compassion, being falsely accused, by a person I honestly never thought would be capable of such ruthless mistreatment of another human being, ever. Guess that's why they has to falsely accuse me and twist all my words. But tge ppint is, that is the reason I am this way. I waa unae towork through and "make sense" of that experience and move on.
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This is so sad i cant feel a thing i feel like i can never go back to normal with my boyfriend or my family, i know i love all of them i just try so hard to feel happiness or love around them
I feel you, it is one of the worst conditions a human being can have, it vanishes everything...
I had depression, I had little emotions although they were still there, but I got worse after I developed existential OCD (it’s where you obsess over things of the universe that our brains can’t comprehend) and then I went from being just depressed to completely flatlined. It’s awful because not only had I flatlined but I was also tormented by my OCD thoughts at the same time. It’s caused my brain to slow down a lot and I’m struggling to focus on my classes. It really sucks. The only thing that has helped so far has been prayer and having people praying for me. I’m not on SSRIs at the moment. I really hope I can make it out of this and I wish I could get in contact with someone who’s been through the same yet overcome.
Hello Paul. I hope this writing finds you. I thought of a few things to lightly look at that may be of use for you .... Could the classes you are doing be possibly causally related to the onset or worsening of your current state of experience? Also, have you experienced periods or general anxiety in your life experience? Did you experience lots of alone time growing up or were not engaged with meaningfully (left to fend for oneself even if you were amongst others)? It really sounds like you are overwhelmed where your emotions become too compressed & perhaps your ability to express the nature of what weighs on you is likely not easy for most people to grasp leaving little emotional oxygen left for you to breathe/experience life's moments. You do not sound underwhelmed (bored). I can understand perhaps how prayer might help you or being prayed for as one is you reaching out for help / sharing your truth by lightening your load, and being prayed for brings a felt sense that others outside of yourself care enough to reach out for God's help on your behalf. You don't have be Atlas with the world on your shoulders or general manager of the universe by the way! Anything to take you out of isolation .. connect with people ... via online groups etc & the biggie is take some actions about your concerns so you convert your worries into tangible reality that way you are part of a solution for yourself and others around you / the world we live in which may empower you! Checkout the still face experiment & TBRI attachment (on youtube). Sometimes our upbringing can set us up to struggle if we did not have good modeling or perhaps the questions that are beset upon your mind are beyond one persons ability to solve by ourselves. I believe we all need a witness to our inner experience it helps put us at ease..Checkout NVC ( Non Violent Communication or Co-counseling) Here is a Great book titled The Mind Gymnasium ( Dennis Postle)which is a gold mine of meaningful understanding orientated around the human experience + The personal management handbook by John Mulligan. Hope you find some of this useful.
SSRIs induced emotional numbness can persist or start after discontinuing meds!
Yes - this is one of the problems. SSRI"s may cause it, but stopping them won't fix it. You have rebuild the pathways that have atrophied.
Thank you so much for rhis. I have been like this for a very long time and didn't know what it was, never thought it was depression and now I know. Had friends but could never get close to them and recently I started cutting them off one by one, I've distant myself from people and pretty much stay to myself in my room. For years I haven't been to close with my daughter but every now and then I would hug her because I felt I had to not because I wanted to. I still function every day and do what I have to but I feel nothing and your video explains it all.
Patricia Macak this is me. I’m 21 now and for as long as I can remember I’ve been like this. My mom would always ask me when I’d be with my dad for a few days if I missed her. And to be honest I didn’t at all. Even when I hadn’t seen her in forever. I’d even tell her I didn’t but she’d just say that I need to open up and it’s okay to say that I missed her. Now years later at 21, she sees I’m still the same. She knows I’ve always been single so she tells me I need to go meet a nice girl and I’ll feel happy again. I tried. This girl I met really likes me a lot. She tells me without hesitation and loves to talk to me and hug me. She seems like she truly cares, always asking how I am, if I got home safe etc. She’s a super sweet girl, pretty too, but I just couldn’t feel anything. And this bugged me a lot. I’ll hug her back, smile back at her, but when I do these things I don’t feel a single thing. I’m giving it a little more time hoping that I’ll feel something, but I don’t want to do that to her. It’s just a one sided thing. I know she sees how cold I can be, how dull I am, yet she still tries. I’m to the point where I could be perfectly fine if someone I always talked to disappeared. I want to feel again. I hate being like this. People always tell me I’m to serious. I try not to be. I try to be more open and joke with friends, but I just don’t feel any connections at all.
My anorexia turned to ahdedonia and I’ve had it since 8th grade. It comes and goes but they’re hand in hand. I have no dopamine releases from overeating ...I don’t masturbate or have sex I have no interest. I have a son who makes me genuinely happy and love him tho. Although It took a while. At first he was a stranger to me but I think that’s normal? I’ve always just wanted to be normal. I don’t care if I live or die but I’m not at all sad just matter of fact. I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been and I control my anorexia by eating clean. But again, no dopamine from restricting and no dopamine from overeating. Too long of this has become numbing
I have had this for 5 years. Since I was 14. It's been hell and I thought I was the only one, everyone was calling it depression and it isn't. It's awful but the memory issues are what I've realised recently. I remember at the start of this I could still feel nostalgia so i would find comfort in thinking about past memories. But once nostalgia went, so did the memories nd the emotional attachment. If I focus very hard I can see pictures of memories but they are all so fuzzy like it's my first memory ever. And it doesn't matter how significant it once was to me. This has made me realise that memories are primarily down to the emotional affect it had on you. This means that because I haven't been able to have emotional attachments to anything since 2015, it's like I'm stuck in time in 2015, before the Anhedonia. I can't participate in my own life so it's now 2020 and it feels like it shouldn't be because my mind is still in 2015. It's very distressing.
It's awful that there isn't much information on this condition. I hope science progresses. And I am going to try this programme. I've got nothing to lose now.
7 years even. I'm 22 this year
Kinda same.. Ever since I entered high school my life's just a blur. And now it's been 3 months since I can literally not feel emotion - they have always been not very strong but that was still better than this.. :/
@@katenka_ana3997 speak to someone if you can, show them this video. I'm not saying anyone will understand but they may. And never give up fighting for your mental health because you deserve to be happy and experience life. I've realised mine is probably due to trauma and its a dissociative disorder so I'm going to seek out trauma therapy
did you try it? how are you feeling now?
I am not feeling anything like past 3 years. I think its from depression and trauma. Cause 3 years ago I lost my 2 Brothers on the traffic accident and 1 year later out of nowhere my dad just died. And then 1 months later My closest friend's father passed away. And I remember When I was at the burying ceremony suddenly i relized I was not feeling anything at all. Now I am 18 a normal person need to feel grief when he think back but me I can t feel anything I dont even remember when I Visited my father and my brothers.
Thank you! this is exactly what I'm experiencing
This is exactly how I've felt for almost a year now and I'm 17. I have been depressed for 4 years. I've also suffered from childhood neglect and seen many things that kinda traumatized me since I was only a kid. As I grew older, I saw that everyone left my life including my parents. When I was depressed, when a friend left, I cried. When my dad did smth, I cried. But I learnt a lot of things about my dad and basically everyone around me all together. Honestly speaking, I dont even get calls or texts on my phone andit's been 2 months since I did. I just suddenly started feeling nothing. When I felt sad, I didn't cry. If a tear came out, soon I laughed out this laugh which was even creeping me out. Literally, nothing feels now. No happiness, sadness, angereslove.Nothing. Im like a walking zombie. No one takes me to a therapist,I dont ask either.
Same
I've been struggling with this for so long without realizing! 2 weeks ago I had finished spending 10 days in the hospital because I had some sort of suicidal crisis. I wanted to commit suicide because all I could feel was anger, ressentment and misery (not even sadness). I work with children and often maaged to be a champion jumping from a group to another forming bounds and swiftly answering their needs so to speak to promote their development.
Today, I feel like a monster. A big ugly one with horns on his head and claws for fingers. All I can feel is anger with those kids... I surpress it so to speak by focusing on whatever positive these children possess (which is easy as children are enormous wells of potential). But that is not enough. They can see your soul. So when you comfort them and the feeling is not their in your heart, they know it instinctively so they end up even sadder. I know all this because I studied attachment for so long in university and what scares is that I should feel absolutely horrified at the consequences of this that being disorganized types of attachments with me. But I feel nothing. Nothing when a child cries, when they succeeded something they could not before or even when they give caring hugs. I feel only when they misbehave (one dreadfull message) so I try to fake a tone or a smile! This is destroying my career as it robs me of those precious radars of emotions.
A truest example pf you do not know the value of what you lost until you did, as before I would state that too many emotions is a demise whereas the opposite makes you a good scientist but false again... How can a scientist study the objective components if he does not care about said rock? What motivates him to do that instead of gaming of lighting a joint? These emotions (whichever kind) we take for granted and must nurture!
Yesterday, I found myself glad that I could feel slight sadness after 2 weeks of meditation! Today I am glad to see that you can overcome this ever so slightly.
I’m so scared of this, I’m 21 an I’ve been studying childcare for 5 years an I feel like every bit of information I’ve learned has gone out my head since my memory is so bad an my emotions are just so dull🥺 I wanna be able to have kids some day an feel an amazing connection an true love an I’m scared I’ll never experience that again
So sorry to hear this and unfortunately it is completely normal for people with Emotional Flatlining to not feel anything for any kids - even your own. I could feel nothing for mine. But I faked it, and I really believe it was fine. I understand attachment theory, and for "normal" people who don't feel I can see how the child senses this. But flatlining is a different brain mechanism. I'm not a doctor and I can't prove this, I just now that my kids told me they couldn't tell I had flatlining after it was all over. So keep on faking it. I'm going to try and make a video on this. But most importantly, check out our website to do what you can to get over it!
Quit weed 70 days ago and hit flatlining. Intimacy has no joy anymore. Stress of quitting plus selfish people in my life has been detrimental to recovery. Its sad people around me don't give a crap who they hurt as long as they get their own way. Beside anger i feel dead inside. Sigh
I am the same way ..selfish people just wanting so much .. get nothing in return
What can you do if you're SSRI-induced anhedonia? I've been off for a year already. Can't laugh anymore. Help.
Hey. Do you still taking them?
If anyone have the paid package then please help me I don't have money and I am 17😭 you can save my life pls help me someone give me paid package
Same!
Antidepressants caused me permanent emotional numbness and anhedonia
Something new to me- Thank you for sharing... very interesting subject. Thanks again.
i will never ever in my heart would wish this experience to anyone not even to my worst enemy!!! thanks to Kim Gloria for her clear comment! you just confirm my "analysis". shucks i'm feeling bright but whatever!
If anyone have the paid package then please help me I don't have money and I am 17😭 you can save my life pls help me someone give me paid package
Thank god im depressed not flat ligihed, my heart goes to you
I feel neither positive nor negative emotions
I used to have that too, when the only reaction you can muster on the inside is "meh." Do you still have it?
Some people lose both positive and negative, and some just the positive.
I lost my mother 5 years ago, just after my 17th birthday, and now I feel nothing. My life is falling apart because of it. All the people I cared about feel meaningless to me now, my family, friends and boyfriend included. I know I care about them but I just don't feel like I do. This is hell.
so sorry 😭
@Sarah JLA Still the same...I went to therapy last year so I can talk about my thoughts and emotions a bit better now...but I still barely FEEL anything
@Sarah JLA Thank you so much, trying my best :)
@@PolkaDotDweeb How are you now?
I have this for 5 years...
@@liran1234567 I'd like to say better, I think I have improved a little bit, I'm trying to communicate my feelings as much as possible at least, but the numbness is still there. I'm sorry you are suffering with the same
Before: my friend crack a joke
Me: hahaha so funny
Now: my friends having fun and laugh
Me: he..he fake laugh nothing excite anymore no adrenaline rush. Iam tired of living this fake life I want to die...please tell me easy way to die.
Same bro
Please don’t commit suicide :( you’ll start feeling emotions again soon ❤️❤️
@@nolord2563 do u also have emotional Flatlining
GODD3VIL BF hey I’m also suffering from this and I would really like to talk to somebody who is experiencing it too, I just have some questions and I want to be able to talk to someone who can relate. I see that you’re the only person who recently commented on this video so if you don’t mind can we please chat ? My Instagram name is its_jlees. If you don’t have Instagram you can message me on here and we can find another way to connect. Hope to hear from you
Go skydiving. Aint no way in hell you wont feel something then.
I truly believe I’m here. Even when I laugh I feel so fake and I hate it I want to feel genuinely and deeply again this is the worst
I need help...I'm gone,done ...I feel nothing...damn...I think I did this..I played guitar professionally for years.. did a lot of meth..and i feel nothing, except pain sorrow,sadness..
Forgot I wrote this...Thank you ..I'll look into it
Hey Bobby, My name is Les. I had forgotten I wrote this.I've taken many different anti depressants over the years. haven't taken anything for a couple years but it's gotten so bad that I've decided to give a drug called Viibryd a try. Keep trying...I know it's tough but we have to keep going. I've been takin it for a week now and I'll have to say I'm feeling a little better...I wish you peace too
STRICKEN I'm 18 , I have the same feeling.. I feel literally dead. I can't even have grief and cry, I have nothing. No feelings at all. It's the most painful thing ever.. The feeling of emptiness. The only thing I want to know is, will I ever get back to the state I was in before anhedonia? Is it really curable ? These are the doubts that kill me even more.
+Beev I've learned to have fun with it. If you are numb to emotion, you can be riskier, treat life like a game. You can go ahead and do your job interview without a care in the world. If you can't have emotions, embrace the numbness. I'm also quite competitive so I don't know if it would work for you.
Drugs burn out your dopamine receptors, it takes along time to recover from that depending on how long you used and how much
I'm in this state while being on antidepressants. A complete zombie. Without them however, I feel emotions (except excitability) but they are way out of control.
Has anyone tried Jackie Kelm's programme? Did it work?
I know a perosn who tried it. It works. Her programm is kinda expensive though 400$
@@oujisanhikari18 If anyone have the paid package then please help me I don't have money and I am 17😭 you can save my life pls help me someone give me paid package
Does it count when I don't feel sympathy too? Like I say I feel sad for people who got abused but I don't feel anything at all?
Yeah
If anyone have the paid package then please help me I don't have money and I am 17😭 you can save my life pls help me someone give me paid package
Very useful in understanding my situation
Jackie, Thank You for this presentation, You described Me through this whole video. I've been treated for the last 25 years for depression with some success with meds. I quit my meds over 2 yrs ago and felt good for 6-7 months, then I started feeling sick and would get depressed on and off for another few months and one day I felt so sick and depressed like I never felt in my life, got back on my meds and it helped for a while but then came this feeling that You describe of Emotional Flatlining that took me over. And I lost interest in everything. Even listening to music on the way to work. I couldn't even feel sad anymore. I work in a hospital and so tough to be around people. Got into a bad car accident last year that wasn't my fault and Totalled my car and I was lucky to walk away with no injuries, but I didn't feel anything. I wasn't even shook up or anything, just emotionless. I was so numb and had no feeling before the accident, that the accident didn't feel like anything. I hope I'm making sense. Thanks for listening.
Awesome video!
How long can it last, how is it cured naturally
95% sure that gaba pentin gave me emotional flat lining. Just to know certain things I should be happy about never even give me any kind of joy.
That's the first I've heard of gabapentin so good to know. Please check out website for help
Thank you for explaining it
I came here to figure out whats wrong with me. i got this from a shock, a negative one, so i stopped feeling emotions
the best thing is that i cant feel sad either
me too
Can i put tthis in a playlist so i can find it easier, its what i experience. Its like a blank page, cant feel sad, happy or anything
I don't believe this person can over come this condition. And she said it herself, it neurological and their isn't anything you can do. She has some things wrong. She thinks that you feel alone and not understood because others don't understand. But you don't feel alone because that is an emotion. And you don't feel frustrated either. And there is thing wrong with acting like your happy and thoughtful. As long as you make others feel good you're still given them something of yourself.
there is certainly something we can do about it, as so many people who've used her program have attested . And like she said, people with emotional flatlining can, to some extent, experience negative emotions; I wouldn't necessarily call it feeling the negative emotion, because you can't really feel anything, but you definitely experience being isolated from others, and such is also the case with me. Words like 'feel' are so ambiguous, you can't always know whether someone means exactly the thing you think they mean, because you're seeing it from your perspective. What she has explained exactly describes what I'm going through, so please don't just so casually dismiss the hard work she's doing. And yeah there's nothing wrong with acting like you care as long as the other person is benefitted i guess, but it makes it so much harder to continue doing it, and you desire that there should be some genuineness to your help, which you seem unable to summon.
I feel I have this but I dont wanna self diagnose and I'm a teen so relatively people will think it's for attention...At first I thought it was deppression... It still might be...But I honestly would kill to make the feeling of anything...I now am unmotivated... The hormones I'm supposed to have are lessened and its put me in a midlife crisis....I'm failing classes cuz I procrastinate...I even feel nothing on my gender....I honestly dont know what to do.
Same bro
@@godd3vil447 Hey,how u doin'? I hope everything's doing alright.I just wanna ask you if you purchased her course and if this is really working? I tried to contact @ the Original because he wanted to share with me the program but since then he didn't reply.Fill me in thanks .Regards
I can feel happiness nd sometimes sadness but not like before, I just can’t feel idk y
It could be this i have, could be depression, could be anxiety, idk what it is but im sick of it, affects me socially, cognitively, just hate it.
I just wanted to correct an information : Depression isn't seperate from Anhedonia
according to DSM 5 ; it's one of its symptomes
Yes, according to DSM-5 anhedonia and depression are not separate. But Ahedonia and Emotional Flatlining are different conditions in the way I'm walking about them, and Emotional Flatining is not a type of depression based on my work, which is my opinion and not medical advice.
I have anhedonia/emotional flatlining, I’m going through a breakup and I desperately want to be able to cry and let it out but I literally can’t, and when I DO cry I feel like I have to force it and when I don’t force it and it just comes out I don’t feel like I’m connected to myself crying, i don’t know if that makes sense I am not sure how else to explain it. I want to feel positive emotions again yes, but I also want to feel my sadness again too (not bc I want to be sad but because I miss crying and feel my emotions while crying rather than now I cry and feel no connection). Please reply with any thoughts you may have.
That is classic Emotional Flatlining. You can't feel grief because you have to be able to care, and caring is a function of the brain's reward pathway, and this pathway is not working. Some people can't feel any negative emotion either, but most just lose the ability to feel positive feelings. This makes perfect sense, and I know it's devastating...
Wow, I've been taking antibiotics lately, good to know it may be because of that. I was getting worried, everything I care for feels so flat right now.
Is it bad that I don’t feel sad as well as happy
I don’t mind I just get yelled at by family for not being sad at funerals and stuff. But I don’t mind it
I get you 😞😞😞
just say ur brain won’t let you react emotionally
I am like that sometimes😐
I hate this feeling. I'm numb to everything now. All I can do is cry😢😢😢😢💔💔💔
That’s a good sign, I can’t even cry
How is it going now?
@@austinwyant2928 I'm so much better thanks. Nothing like how it was before😀
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I’m currently in your situation. It would bring me peace to know what caused it and how you got out?
@@austinwyant2928 Well the doctors prescribed me with 50mg Sertraline. It took at least 2 months before I saw changes. I started to supplement with vitamins like fish oil and vitamin B. After my sleep improved everything seemed alot better. Before taking any medication find out what is really causing this, for me it was leaving negative people behind. I'm no longer on anti depressants but I'm now supplementing with 5htp and I love it
Of course the reward centers in the brain are deactivated -- there are no more rewards in life.
I know I have this. I am sooooo tired of other people’s inability to behave!
Really brilliant.
I am an integrative medicine practitioner (in training) and I agree with what Allah said down below. The physical and mental are so intimately interwoven. Have you ever tried probiotic implants (not orally ingesting probiotics...but putting them directly in the colon.
They are a game changer!
How do you do this.
Seroquel, anyone?
This came in my suggestion like crazy this is exactly how am feeling...I cant even express how much i relate to this....goddddddd!... How to heal from this...
Any update?
@@godd3vil447 hello
VITAMIN D IS VERY IMPORTANT. YOU NEED SUNLIGHT TO MAKE DOPAMINE AND TESTOSTERONE, YOU ALSO NEED CHOLESTEROL. PLEASE GET YOUR VITAMIN D LEVELS CHECKED IF YOUR DEPRESSED OR HAVE ANHEDONIA. IT CAUSED MINE
Since i was 10 ive felt like this
if you can't feel positive emotions, it doesn't make your life "flat". If you can't feel ANY emotions, it makes your life "flat". please respect logic
Can antidepressants cause this ? This is how o feel
Yes, antidepressants caused me permanent emotional numbness and anhedonia
@@valdechenko565 damn
@@valdechenko565 me too monster drugs
Yes they can. It's interesting though as I've had some people do fine with an antidepressant that caused flatlining for someone else. So it seems very individual
What's it called when you can't get sad about anything anymore but can laugh and smile. I dont get sad or angry.... maybe frustrated sometimes... I feel numb... Can't remember things .... Can't cry when loved ones die.... Am I becoming a psychopath i don't have any want to hurt people or steal my moral compass still exists.... But if I had to shoot someone I dont think it would bother me anymore... Not that I would ever harm anyone
Woah I feel the same way
3 doctors considering me ECT because of anhedonia I'm suffering from anhedonia from 2 years this is result of antidepressants which I'm taking from 17 years I'm 32 years old and have my marriage after 7 month my condition is worse then you thing I can't eat anything and I can't even get out of the bed please help me regarding that
Same here!
Antidepressants caused me permanent emotional numbness and anhedonia!
Those pills are poisons!!!!
@@valdechenko565 monster drugs
Meham how r u now
Does anyone know of any holistic remedies that improve anhedonia characteristics?
If anyone knows, please let me know. I'm always looking for anything that will help! I don't know of any yet.
Affective flattening doen't just mean lack of positive emotions but lack of any emotion thus all emotion even negative ones are diminished thus easy to go through, less anxious, less irritable, less angry and so on, thus useful too.
u feel anxiety
Yep anxiety and panic is the only thing I can feel well. Amazing.....