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A commonly overlooked symptom of depression is anhedonia, the inability to feel joy or pleasure. The reason that it's easy to overlook is that it's easier to miss the absence of something that's not around all the time than it is to miss a symptom that causes active distress, such as feeling tired and miserable all the time.
Anhedonia is good at being a persistent undercurrent to your life. My aunt, who has major depressive disorder, related to me that she figured out that something was wrong when she looked at the daffodils she had planted blooming, and couldn't recognize the emotion that she felt when she looked at them. It had been long enough since she had felt happy that she lost the ability to recognize the emotion.
It's a particularly dangerous depressive symptom, because it robs you of the ability to feel those little spots of joy that keep a lot of people going, while not doing anything to impair your ability to function. If you don't know that this is a treatable symptom of depression, it's easy to assume that your ability to feel good is permanently broken, and decide to commit suicide because you don't want to live like that. It's not an irrational conclusion, but it is an uninformed one, and everyone deserves to have all the information when making a major decision.
This is what a lot of questionnaires are trying to look for when they ask about "loss of enjoyment". If you can't remember a loss of enjoyment because you can't remember enjoyment, then you probably have anhedonia. If you struggle to define how it is to feel "happy", "content", or "good", or how it feels when you feel those emotions, you probably have anhedonia. If you can't remember feeling any of those emotions for a week or more, you probably have anhedonia.
Symptoms commonly co-occurring with anhedonia are fatigue (often the cause), clear and thoughtful consideration of suicide, loss of desire to socialize or do activities that used to make you happy, and weight loss (due to lack of enjoyment of food).
This section is anecdotal. In what I have observed, anhedonia due to fatigue rarely responds well to depression treatment unless depression was causing the fatigue. If fatigue and anhedonia are co-occurring and are not both alleviated by depression treatment, consider other causes for the fatigue.
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i think everyone would be happier if they just started writing fanfics for themselves
even if you dont post it
write it
even if you never want anyone else to read it
write it anyway!!! keep it locked away in ur google docs if you want!!!
have fun with it and write exactly what YOU would want to read <3
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Actually really tho? The cooking is actually gonna be the more difficult part of this silly fic for me. Researching nature and biology is my jam. Cooking tho???
Tbh I haven't eaten many fish dishes either so... gonna be researching...
I've been watching that Del/icious in D/ungeon show on netflix & I'm almost caught up.
Kinda wanna try to write smth for it... but ngl the only idea I have is Cursed AF lmao
U know those hellspawn catfish that. That sense the ammonia in urine and. And.
If you've seen River Monsters YOU KNOW 鈽狅笍
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I've caved and started typing this out. I'm glad I finally have some energy and motivation to write again but why couldn't it have been anything but this to scratch my brain itch 馃槶 Researching these demon creatures proves Earth and Real Life is worse than any DnD bullshit. This is just as fucked up as I remembered, if not moreso bc I'm old enough to see the Pictures this time lmaooo 馃あ馃ぎ鈽狅笍
I've been watching that Del/icious in D/ungeon show on netflix & I'm almost caught up.
Kinda wanna try to write smth for it... but ngl the only idea I have is Cursed AF lmao
U know those hellspawn catfish that. That sense the ammonia in urine and. And.
If you've seen River Monsters YOU KNOW 鈽狅笍
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makoto just trying to look in the library for evidence
byakuya:
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dykes read Fucking Trans Women challenge
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hey so after some talking, I decided to open these painting style commissions for 150$ (I'm sorry if they seem expensive I need the money)
1 full body shot with simplistic colored background, 2 slots
18+ only, reply below so I can dm you the details.
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@nsfwitchy2
THIS PICTURE JUST MADE MY LIFE.
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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.
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