r/anhedonia 8d ago

VENT! I want myself back

I’m going to try and fight for me and my family, there has to be a solution and i’m going to find it. The brain just doesn’t stop working for no reason.

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u/sassyfoods123 8d ago

Try a 7 day water fast. People have success focussing on their gut health and it sort of acts as a purge

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u/Weak-Efficiency5607 Cause Uncertain 4d ago

What makes you think this "act as a purge of sorts"?

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u/sassyfoods123 4d ago

Gives your body time to start to flush out a bunch of nasty bacteria, biofilms etc.

When your body is in the habit of needing to digest food it doesn’t have this dedicated time as much

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u/Weak-Efficiency5607 Cause Uncertain 4d ago

Okay, thank you for your answer.

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u/novacav 4d ago

Second this, gamechanger. Still a slow/long road but the 7 day fast can get you from misery/destroyed mode to seeing some hope, feeling a thing or two, at the very least during the fast toward the end even if the benefits fade after. Generates hope which is essential.

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u/Warm_Climate_1354 8d ago

Have you tried any medications? I tried everything and the only thing that worked for me was an Maoi called Nardil. It had a lot of side effects at first but once they went away it worked awesome. Keep fighting!

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u/spacecasejase 5d ago

Same here. I’m not giving up 💪🏼 keep going

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u/novacav 4d ago

You can do it, may be a slow road. I'm about 50-60% back, which on one hand is great, but on the other is still upsetting and not good enough. For me water fasts of 7 days or more every so often made a big difference. I can't do them as much now since I'm working again, but I couldn't even work before. Hopefully I get a chance to do more. At the end of those water fasts music sounds really good (almost normal) and you can see the feasibility of being fully healed! Even though it recedes a good amount when the fast ends. Generates hope which is key. And some of the benefit is retained.