[Jidxja]

This is a thread where you can vent about your struggles as a man, and i will provide 100% support and understanding with no judgements.

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Myself, I struggle with anhedonia right now, which is a symptom of depression.
"Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure."
Basically, I find it hard to experience both pain and pleasure, I have become numb to everything. I was depressed as a kid suicidal etc, not anymore but I think I never cured depression, only made my symptoms more bearable with meditation.
The symptoms come and go, although my life just kept getting better and better, using every negative emotion as motivation, as fuel to pursue my goals.
But things still are not perfect, I practice gratitude which helps with the symptoms, but right now, I really can't feel anything. Neither pain, nor pleasure.

[mothered]

@"mothered" maybe you can move this to lounge, not serious please? so it has more reach. Thank you!

As requested, moved to The Lounge forum.

[Andrea Bags]

I haven't been sleeping much causing me to show poor performance at work

[Jidxja]

I haven't been sleeping much causing me to show poor performance at work

Why you haven't been sleeping much?You don't have the time to? Thoughts keeping you awake at night?

[mothered]

I haven't been sleeping much causing me to show poor performance at work

How many hours do you sleep?

I only get around 4 hours - my mind Is always active.

[Jidxja]

I haven't been sleeping much causing me to show poor performance at work

How many hours do you sleep?

I only get around 4 hours - my mind Is always active.

There's no way, you are sleep deprived, even if you do not feel like it. May i ask how old are you? if you are less than 60 there's no reason for you to sleep like this.

[mothered]

There's no way, you are sleep deprived

I feel terrific each and every day.

May i ask how old are you?

Older than you.

if you are less than 60 there's no reason for you to sleep like this.

Each to their own.

[Jidxja]

There's no way, you are sleep deprived

I feel terrific each and every day.

May i ask how old are you?

Older than you.

if you are less than 60 there's no reason for you to sleep like this.

Each to their own.

I envy you a lot brother haha, I need 8-9 hours of sleep, but I do intense training and maybe that's a factor.
But i have read that people who are chronically sleep deprived don't even know they are, they think they function normally but in reality they don't, they could feel better, anyways, take care and hope you put the extra hours of waking to good use

[mothered]

I need 8-9 hours of sleep

I was very similar In my younger days - up to 12 hours on weekends.

The older you get, the less sleep you need.

[LawDogUSA]

This is a thread where you can vent about your struggles as a man, and i will provide 100% support and understanding with no judgements.

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Myself, I struggle with anhedonia right now, which is a symptom of depression.
"Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure."
Basically, I find it hard to experience both pain and pleasure, I have become numb to everything. I was depressed as a kid suicidal etc, not anymore but I think I never cured depression, only made my symptoms more bearable with meditation.
The symptoms come and go, although my life just kept getting better and better, using every negative emotion as motivation, as fuel to pursue my goals.
But things still are not perfect, I practice gratitude which helps with the symptoms, but right now, I really can't feel anything. Neither pain, nor pleasure.

This is an awesome thread and one that I am well suited for, its actually what Im now doing in the second half of life here. Nice choice, and I couldn't be happier to help and participate. If i saw that right, you are pretty young, but well advanced when it comes to handling your own mental health. Im older and I experience the same type of no pleasure/pain, and I can lose all 5 of my senses at times. I probably had a lot of these things at a younger age too, I just channeled my focus very well, somewhat forced to do so and my own drive to be successful. Didn't need school, as I was thrust into a need to help others at a very young age.

Did you get your diagnosis from yourself or doctor, and do you get therapy and/or medication. You don't have to answer, speaking out loud to say this pretty simple. This may be the way you go through life, not everyone is very high on life or very low, no matter who we are, life is a rollercoaster, and we play the hand we are dealt. Depression is almost always beatable, it's definitely treatable. You may have cured your depression for a point in your life, but who knows the future and what might come our way, right. But you are way ahead of the game, you are doing great things now to control these things when or if they come up in the future. And it is a mindset, you keep that positive. Personally, i have gone through the most horrible shit, sometimes when I glance back at life, none of it was as bad or as hard, as I thought at the time. I always kick myself and say that was nothing, but in the moment, it was rocking my world.

Thats life and I'm sorry to hijack your thread, but I wanted to point out, I can't guarantee things will be perfect for you, what I can say without a doubt, you are in excellent shape now to deal with life and what it throws, not only at you, but helping others. You are well advanced. Excellent

Thats been my motto, I love people and I love helping others. Mental health is everything.

G