I'm not sure if anyone is still active on this thread but thought I would give a shout out and check in to see if anyone has found anything, anything to help alleviate their anhedonia. I am truly at the end of my rope with it and don't know how I can enter another year in this state. Not only am I unable to feel any emotions at all, but I've also lost the capacity to sleep or eat. I cannot feel any hunger at all, ever, and no do not feel satisfied/satiated after I eat. Nothing tastes good or is pleasurable. The worst thing is this unbearable feeling of blankness/numbness totally washing over my brain, drowning out my pleasure receptors. It feels like my head is filled with cotton wool and nothing penetrates it. It never shuts off, even to sleep, I just lie on my bed all night waiting for my brain to cycle down into sleep patterns and it never does. Out of desperation, I've tried several different sleep meds and none of them have done a thing.

I tried to be proactive this month by joining a gym, thinking that vigorous exercise might trigger some response. It has been excruciating. I go on the treadmill or elliptical and try to give it my all but I feel no reponse in my brain or body, I don't even feel like my muscles are working or contracting, I don't feel fatigued afterward. It's the strangest sensation. I also tried acupuncture again, and the practitioner has tried several different meridians with me and it has done nothing at all. Have tried various Chinese herbs and saw an Ayurvedic doctor last week who prescribed more herbs, but they haven't touched the anhedonia at all. I honestly do not know what to try next. My psychiatrist is no help, he doesn't seem to believe in anhedonia and claims it's all in my head and I just need more talk therapy. Talking to my therapist every week is an exercise in futility because all I can do is repeat my despair at not being able to feel anything, feeling my life pass me by, feeling more and more hopeless. DBT and CBT therapy are not helpful, because they are all about exercises to regulate your emotions and I don't have any emotions to regulate.

I saw an ad for the Fisher-Wallace stimulator and wondered if anyone has tried it. I'm also curious about TMS therapy -- if that would stimulate the parts of my brain that are so completely shut down?

Are there any supplements/drugs/treatments that have worked for you? Is there hope? How do you make it through the day with severe anhedonia?