I think I’m suffering from anhedonia but it’s hard to say. My brain is effectively blocking out all activities. If I try to eat, cook, watch tv, go on a walk, read, really anything, I have this immediate overwhelming sense that I need to stop (So I don’t do them). I think I’m interested in doing these things, but my brain is saying “turn around and go home, you need to be somewhere else”. I can pretty much get through 5 minutes of eating meals as fast as possible, sometimes not even sitting down, but most of my time is spent pacing, pacing back and forth looking at random objects. While I pace I think about how I don’t want to be doing that and want to just sit down and focus, but I fundamentally cannot. I can still cognitively understand these activities, but this mind/body response is preventing me from doing any of them. I stopped cooking because of this. I sometimes think it’s anxiety so major I can’t even comprehend it, but I don’t know. I had a manic psychotic episode I’m recovering from, which I attribute to some of this and the lack of sustained interest (anhedonia), but it feels like something worse is going on. I thought it was possibly akathisia, but I have no skin crawling sensations or problem sitting for sustained periods of time. The ONLY thing I do without problem is scroll these forums for answers, which makes me wonder what the block is for the rest of my life. Has anyone had this symptom? I’m hoping my psych has a wonder med for this.