Can Depressed People Feel Happiness?💙

Can Depressed People Feel Happiness?💙

Can depressed people feel happy? Well it's a complicated answer but in general one of the main criteria of depression is "anhedonia", which is a difficulty or inability to take pleasure in things.💙

As happiness generally reflects a pleasure in life itself or in things happening to you, then the anhedonia would mean "no, someone with depression can't feel happiness", but as ever it's so not much black and white as shades of grey. 💙

The lighter the depression the more likely someone is to be able to feel happiness, the earlier the depression the more likely they are to feel happiness, and the longer a depression has gone on the deeper it is the more that person will experience anhedonia, in all likelihood, and be unable to feel happiness for anything other than short bursts of time, if at all.💙

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