Feeling 'Blah'?
Why Life Feels Joyless and How to Recapture Its Highs
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Feeling 'Blah'?
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Antonia Beamish
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Tanith Carey
Özet
'A brilliant read' Happiful
'A really, really, really, really good book' Liz Jones, You magazine podcast
How much do you enjoy your life?
Does life feel dull? A bit grey?
Do you feel as if your emotions have flatlined?
This is anhedonia – a word only a few of us have heard of but one that explains why so many of us feel we are sleepwalking through life.
Anhedonia is from the Greek word for 'without pleasure' and describes a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. It explains why many of us spend our lives in a fog, feeling neither happy nor sad, just not very much at all.
In the first book to tackle this missing piece in mental health, writer Tanith Carey joins the dots on how convenience culture, stressful lifestyles, modern diets and both female and male hormonal changes can dial down our ability to feel excitement and joy.
With the help of world-leading experts and by digging into the latest research, Tanith shows you how your brain's dopamine reward system works and provides strategies to help you bring colour back into your life.
Groundbreaking, accessible and often surprising, this is the book that will teach you how to kickstart your feel-good chemicals and start loving life again.
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Many phrases resonate with me!
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Amazingly insightful
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Tanith explains the science perfectly. She describes what anhedonia is, it’s history and causes. Using the latest discoveries in neuroscience she explains exactly what is happening in the brain and the body as we age, and life’s stresses and strains take their toll on us. I like her clear referencing to the many scientists she has learned from.
Tanith’s use of her personal journey and other contributors’ short stories really brings the book to life. Anhedonia has multiple factors and the quiz in the book will help you discover which elements speak to you. Some I had not experienced at all, yet others really spoke to me and I think Tanith deserves every praise for creating a book that will speak to as many people as possible.
As a man I found Tanith’s descriptions of what the women in my life are going through during the menopause particularly helpful. She has given me an even more compassionate and patient outlook on what women go through at a hormonal, brain, body, and behavioural level. This book should be included on every workplace menopause awareness course. The increase in understanding about what we face at different life stages would greatly increase workplace understanding and empathy.
Equally the description of the andropause was enlightening. I’d certainly found my natural get up and go had got up and gone. I was having to will myself through more and more and some of the hobbies and interests I used to enjoy were no longer as much fun. Although I use many positive psychology practices, they could not prevent the physical changes of aging and I once again needed to adapt to my new older reality. This book directly addresses that aging reality and most importantly what we can practically do about it.
Most useful of all is ‘Part 3: How to Feel Fully Alive’ which is effectively a science help book. Based on all the latest science and research (noting that science can and will change as it develops and learns more) there are multiple examples of what has been found to work to overcome the many forms anhedonia takes. If anhedonia has crept up on you the good news is your brain can change. Just as a physiotherapist might help us recover from a physical injury by slowly increasing our range of movement and strength over time, we can do the same with finding joy in our activities again. Anhedonia tricks us into believing we need to feel better to enjoy things gain. In reality, we need to do more of the things we enjoy, slowly at first, and retrain the brain to enjoy those activities. Tanith has listed many proven activities that may help you with whatever feeling drew you to this book. Choose the ones that appeal to you. The temptation to pop a pill to fix things is also covered yet there are many was to recover naturally too. To treat my particular male age related hormonal decline I’m off to chop some wood outside on a sunny day…you’ll understand when you read the book.
Spark joy.
The most memorable moment of the book for me was the advice to spark joy. It is used here in relation to curating your social media feed so that you follow those who spark joy. I think it can be applied far more widely that that. Spend time with people who spark joy in the real world and online, doing the activities you enjoy, it’s a life changer.
Thank you Tanith Carey for your superb book and above all, sparking joy.
Find Joy again…a science help book
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A brilliant summary of all of the options currently out there for anhedonia with easy to follow actionable tips. I can't rate it any higher. I'll be listening again but taking notes this time.
Brilliant summary
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