anhedonia

(noun)

The inability to experience pleasure from activities typically considered enjoyable.

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Examples of anhedonia in the following topics:

  • Introduction to Schizophrenia and Psychosis

    • Examples include alogia (lack of speech), flat affect (lack of emotional response), anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure), asociality (lack of interest in social contact), avolition (lack of motivation), and apathy (lack of interest).
    • Anhedonia, or the inability to experience pleasure, is also common, as is emotional emptiness.

  • Explaining Mood Disorders

    • A diagnosis of depression includes two symptoms not found in the standard definition of dysthymia: anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure) and psychomotor symptoms (chiefly lethargy or agitation).

  • Cluster A: Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders

    • ., anhedonia, blunted affect, and low energy), and medications such as atypical antipsychotics may alleviate these symptoms.