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How depression makes pleasure-seeking feel performative

My therapist said I should find a hobby but every time I try something new it feels fake and forced like I am just killing time until I die.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When the capacity for genuine interest is compromised, even healing activities become hollow gestures toward a vitality that feels unreachable.

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