Anhedonia.

[Hetzer]

The inability to feel pleasure. The quack today told me it's what I've got and, apparently, have had for years. A severe case too. Yay, taste that fucking rainbow.

Drugs can cause it. One rewires the brain to experience a heightened sense of pleasure with drugs and gradually the Real Thing no longer makes the nut, no longer trips the circuits. Fucking Pepsi. The path from empathy to sociopathy.

Sad, matters. Anyone needs somebody knocked off?
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[Sload]

First I knew of that. I do remember reading something about MDMA abuse over time causing issues with serotonin release but that was many moons ago and my honeymoon was relatively short lived regardless.
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[CaNsA]

[Ste]

Sounds like a medical term for grumpy old man?

[Hetzer]

[hellkat]

Tell him you need some cognitive behavioural therapy to realign your hedonistic values

Or ... go sit down on a sandy beach at midnight and just let the tide wash the sand out from around your feet and arse ... its as close to starting from scratch as I can think of
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[Hetzer]

[chickenstrip]

Christ mate, I just looked that condition up - I'll never be doing that again when anyone else comes up with something they've been told they are suffering from! Down that road lies hypochondria

In fact, just reading about Anhedonia is depressing me...

[Carvel]

They'll give a medical diagnosis for anything these days. Just cheer up you old bastard.
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Matt B: I can deal with crushed nuts to beat Ollie.

[Fisty]

So orgasms are shit for you then? Bad times.
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Fatter and faster than Fret

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

Tell us what caused you to go to il dottore in the first place.

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[Hetzer]

[lihp]

[hellkat]

So ... "you may be some time" ...?

I'm interested to know about the condition, because I enjoy a bit of pleasure seeking myself, but perhaps not to the extent (or chemically enhanced extent) that you have done so. I would find it horrific to actually have no sensation of pleasure.

So I'm just wondering whether you (or the doctor) genuinely believe that you can't "come back" from that (even only by a percentage rather than in full) by somehow adjusting or realigning your sensory receptors, without actually being chemically enhanced.
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

Sorry to hear this Hetz.

You've seen a Dr so presumably some sort of medical treatment has been prescribed? Go with it, and if the following have not not been prescribed, try a talking treatment or CBT or NLP or hippy-shit and stuff. Not all at once though!

If you can't feel pleasure at the moment, can you remember what pleasure felt like? Can you recall a time when you were exhilarated, felt joy or happiness?

Remembering is a first step towards recapturing those feelings.

They're not lost, they've just been mislaid for a while.

Hang in there

X

PS I've heard that a BCF BBQ has miraculous regenerative powers. Ask Ghostrider.
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Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're probably right

[Hetzer]

[Nobby the Bastard]

I wake up every morning thinking I'll never feel pleasure again.

Then I roll off my arm and within 5 minutes the sensation comes back. I crack off a good'un and all is well with the world.

Maybe you are just lying on your arm.

Or, possibly, just lying....
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[chickenstrip]

[Hetzer]

Yes, I can remember what pleasure felt like. One of the key triggers used to be the smell of cut grass in the summer. Fuckall now. Can't connect to music much worth a wank now. Riding the bike, might as well be on a bus. Can't be arsed to party, mandy does nothing any more. Doesn't even make it hard to piss, which is fucking odd because I figured that was a purely physiological thing.

The quack couldn't say if it's psychological or physiological (brain chemistry etc), apparently they still don't know for sure either way. "Probably a combination" (that old "we don't have a clue" chestnut).

My love of the old Brett Easton Ellis passage has come back to haunt me:

[Hetzer]

[Pete.]

Don't worry mate, when you're reborn it's like hitting the reset button - all past sins forgiven and physical/mental ailments wiped clean
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Ste]

For his sins, his next life will be as an anal bead.

[recman]

[Ste]

Free buses are almost bearable.