Comments on: Worth the effort? Not if you’re depressed http://anhedoniablog.com/2009/08/13/worth-the-effort-not-if-youre-depressed/ Anhedonia,the most fatal and undertreated symptom of mental illness...or Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:37:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: admin http://anhedoniablog.com/2009/08/13/worth-the-effort-not-if-youre-depressed/comment-page-1/#comment-5465 admin Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:37:31 +0000 http://anhedoniablog.com/?p=40#comment-5465 I hear you. I know what you are saying. This is the first time I have been back to my own site in 2 years. EVERYTHING is better and some things are great - but even better - I can even handle the bad things well - like when my two "forever" dogs died last year - or I lost a business... I have been taking Selegiline for two years, 50- 60 mg per day the first 1.5 years and about 20 mg q day now. I have not been depressed for over two year - which is about 22 months longer than EVER before. I have been incredibly busy - but very productive AND I got married Oct 29 th. I am 58 years old and I finally have a life that I like for the first time in my life!! Never give UP. I hear you. I know what you are saying.
This is the first time I have been back to my own site in 2 years. EVERYTHING is better and some things are great – but even better – I can even handle the bad things well – like when my two “forever” dogs died last year – or I lost a business… I have been taking Selegiline for two years, 50- 60 mg per day the first 1.5 years and about 20 mg q day now. I have not been depressed for over two year – which is about 22 months longer than EVER before. I have been incredibly busy – but very productive AND I got married Oct 29 th. I am 58 years old and I finally have a life that I like for the first time in my life!! Never give UP.

]]> By: Kazza http://anhedoniablog.com/2009/08/13/worth-the-effort-not-if-youre-depressed/comment-page-1/#comment-4057 Kazza Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:58:42 +0000 http://anhedoniablog.com/?p=40#comment-4057 For me it comes down to this: If your mother told you to go and wash the car, and your reward for doing so was a smack in the face, would you do it enthusiastically? Would you live your life doing things, with the ultimate reward for everything being a smack in the face? If the reward was a smack in the face, there is no damn way you are going to go and do all those things just to receive that! :) If the reward isn't worth having, then you won't do the required task. And then imagine if no rewards you could think of are worth doing the task? That is when doing the task becomes a job that you don't get paid for. Why do it? You get nothing out of it, and it is a chore. Spend 16 hours a day doing things you hate, for no real reason and for no reward whatsoever. It's all a bit pointless really. Expand that to every iota of your life and you have anhedonia in a nutshell. There are no rewards worth having, but you still have to do all these stupid chores, all for no reason at all. Actually one reason I do these relentless chores is to shut other people up. So that is one reason, but it has nothing to do with a reward. I think it is called being driven by fear. So you have to basically live your life being driven by fear. It's a sad, lame existance that I hopefully won't have to put up with for much longer. For me it comes down to this:

If your mother told you to go and wash the car, and your reward for doing so was a smack in the face, would you do it enthusiastically?

Would you live your life doing things, with the ultimate reward for everything being a smack in the face?

If the reward was a smack in the face, there is no damn way you are going to go and do all those things just to receive that! :)

If the reward isn’t worth having, then you won’t do the required task. And then imagine if no rewards you could think of are worth doing the task? That is when doing the task becomes a job that you don’t get paid for. Why do it? You get nothing out of it, and it is a chore. Spend 16 hours a day doing things you hate, for no real reason and for no reward whatsoever. It’s all a bit pointless really.

Expand that to every iota of your life and you have anhedonia in a nutshell. There are no rewards worth having, but you still have to do all these stupid chores, all for no reason at all. Actually one reason I do these relentless chores is to shut other people up. So that is one reason, but it has nothing to do with a reward. I think it is called being driven by fear.

So you have to basically live your life being driven by fear. It’s a sad, lame existance that I hopefully won’t have to put up with for much longer.

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