How do you overcome alogia?

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asked Mar 23, 2022 in Mental Health by Bengough (700 points)
How do you overcome alogia?

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answered Mar 25, 2022 by Valenzuela (5,190 points)
Some ways you can overcome alogia are through talk therapy and speech therapy as well as social skills training.

Seeing a therapist is one of the best ways to begin overcoming alogia.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) can help people identify and change distorted thoughts.

Family therapy can help families learn what they can do to support their loved one who has a thought disorder.

Group therapy can be a useful treatment for practicing skills and finding support.

Alogia is a lack of speech or poverty of speech and anhedonia is an inability to feel pleasure.

Alogia can also be a secondary effect, resulting from primary symptoms such as psychosis or anxiety.

For example, you might choose not to speak, because there are voices in your head threatening you if you do.

Similarly, you might not speak due to feeling paranoid around other people or nervous/anxious.

Negative symptoms include decreased thought and speech productivity (alogia), loss of ability to experience pleasure (anhedonia), decreased initiation of goal-directed behavior (avolition), and speech with little or no change to their tone, little or no change in their facial expression, even if they are talking about.

Alogia is characterized by a lack of speech, often caused by a disruption in the thought process.

Usually, an injury to the left side of the brain may cause alogia to appear in an individual.

Anhedonia is a common symptom of depression as well as other mental health disorders.

Most people understand what pleasure feels like.

They expect certain things in life to make them happy.

Engaging in an activity that previously brought you joy or positive feelings, but no longer elicits those feelings, is one example of anhedonia.

If you used to enjoy playing video games every day after work, but now feel nothing when gaming, this could be an example of anhedonia.

At present, there are no treatments aimed at anhedonia.

It is commonly treated alongside the condition that it is part of — for instance, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are often prescribed for individuals with depression.

Anhedonia treatment will be a part of the overall treatment plan.

Oftentimes, the ways that you treat depression are also used as anhedonia treatment.

People with anhedonia may try medication, therapy, new experiences, practicing mindfulness, and making sure to get proper nutrition and sleep.

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