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Dr. Scott Eilers shares seven strategies for overcoming anhedonia and finding joy amidst depression.

Thanks to Grow Therapy for sponsoring this video! Head to https://growtherapy.yt.link/hshEjBV to find your dream therapist today!Anhedonia can make you feel like a background character in your own life—still going through the motions, but unable to feel joy, pleasure, or meaning. In this video, I share seven strategies I personally use when depression leaves me feeling emotionally numb.I’ll walk through checking the lock, scaffolding positive experiences, finding “loopholes,” investing in future joy, apathyception, creating novelty, and what I do when none of those strategies work.If you’re stuck in that numb, repetitive “NPC mode” right now, I want you to remember that your current emotional state can make itself feel permanent—even when it isn’t. If my podcast has helped, my new book, The Light Between the Leaves , goes even deeper Next Steps: 📩 Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxiety , delivered weekly. About me: I know what it is to feel hopelessly stuck and worthless to the world in general. I also know what it is to live without those feelings. I’m both a Clinical Psychology specializing in treatment-resistant depression and anxiety, and a human…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Eilers

Topics covered

• anhedonia
• mental health
• depression
• strategies for overcoming
• emotional numbness
• personal experience

Keywords

• anhedonia
• depression
• mental health strategies
• emotional numbness
• personal experience
• therapy
• self-help

Sponsors

Grow Therapy

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Books & works: The Light Between the Leaves

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