During my first year as a resident doctor, I became depressed. One of the hardest symptoms I experienced was anhedonia—the inability to feel pleasure or joy. It’s difficult to describe how horrible this feeling is, but if you’ve been through it, you know exactly what I mean… No matter how hard I tried, I just could not find joy in things that had always made me happy—soccer, running, skateboarding, or even just going to the beach.
As the months passed… (1/3)