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Hi, I'm looking for someone else who has experienced depression and that lack of interest in anything that was normally pleasurable. I lost my job 3 months back and now I just sit in the house feeling lonely till my husband comes home. I just don't feel like doing anything. Can anyone relate
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TackingIntoTheWind
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Welcome to the site, (((( MaryA ))))! 
I was told by a psychiatrist that loss of interest in activities that you normally find pleasurable is a very common symptom of depression. ( Apparently it's called anhedonia, at least it is in the United Kingdom. ) It's one that I certainly have experienced very strongly and quite often still do. So I can certainly relate to that, and I feel confident that you are very much not alone in this.
I also went through a stage where I hardly went out at all for a few weeks. For me, such isolation was very bad, because the more depressed I got the more isolated I became, and the more isolated I became the more depressed I became. So, again, this is something that I can very much relate to.
Something that I found helpful in " easing myself back into the world " was going somewhere like a coffee-shop and just watching the world go by. Or going to a library and using a computer to browse the internet, or just looking at the books to find something that interested me. Places like these allowed me to be outside and among people, but in a way that wasn't stressful and where I wouldn't feel " under the spotlight ", and wouldn't trigger my social anxiety.
Good luck, (((( MaryA ))))! I hope that this site will be as helpful to you as it has been, and is, to me.
I was told by a psychiatrist that loss of interest in activities that you normally find pleasurable is a very common symptom of depression. ( Apparently it's called anhedonia, at least it is in the United Kingdom. ) It's one that I certainly have experienced very strongly and quite often still do. So I can certainly relate to that, and I feel confident that you are very much not alone in this.
I also went through a stage where I hardly went out at all for a few weeks. For me, such isolation was very bad, because the more depressed I got the more isolated I became, and the more isolated I became the more depressed I became. So, again, this is something that I can very much relate to.
Something that I found helpful in " easing myself back into the world " was going somewhere like a coffee-shop and just watching the world go by. Or going to a library and using a computer to browse the internet, or just looking at the books to find something that interested me. Places like these allowed me to be outside and among people, but in a way that wasn't stressful and where I wouldn't feel " under the spotlight ", and wouldn't trigger my social anxiety.
Good luck, (((( MaryA ))))! I hope that this site will be as helpful to you as it has been, and is, to me.
Thank you for your reply. I like your suggestions because they don't really involve spending alot of money,I'm unemployed right now but, you're still out there in the world. I find walking in parks gives me too much time to think. My therapist wants me to do volunteer work but, I feel too anxious because I have isolated myself like you said. I will give it a try this week and let you know.
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