anhedonia

Sometimes giving up drinking involves anhedonia, which is an inability to find pleasure in the activities you once enjoyed.

I ended up leaving midyear due to my anhedonia, a clinical term that refers to the inability to experience pleasure.

Others have reported negative side effects, like experiencing anhedonia, or the inability to feel pleasure.

This leaves him, he adds, in a consistent state of anhedonia: a reduced ability to feel pleasure.

The results were striking: Individuals who had experienced unpredictable childhoods were at a statistically greater risk of anxiety, anhedonia, higher depression and even suicidal ideation.