anhedonia

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These included anhedonia, feelings of hopelessness, and a sense of failure, in both women with and without HIV.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

Individuals with musical anhedonia tend to score low in all five categories.

From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026

Depression also comes with anhedonia, or the inability to experience pleasure in activities or social situations that were once enjoyable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

“My biggest symptom after that was extreme anhedonia, like a feeling of not being myself or getting pleasure from anything — almost not feeling human,” she said.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2025

Sometimes these blue spells alternate with periods of exaltation and happiness, but in my experience this is far less common than periodic blue spells, a kind of recurrent anhedonia.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham