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Podcast: The Light Inside
Episode: Empty: How Anhedonia Steals Our Light with Tanith Carey
Description: In this opening episode of Season 5 of The Light Inside, host Jeffrey Besecker and guest Tanith Carey explores the topic of emptiness and anhedonia, the silent thief of joy.
Carey describes the experience of waking up to a world devoid of colors and melodies, where happiness and the ability to feel anything have been replaced by an overwhelming sense of emptiness. Jeffrey and Tanith delve into the ache and constant dull pain that accompanies anhedonia, as well as the numbing of the senses.Â
Despite this desolate landscape, there remains a...