"Difficulty experiencing pleasure isn't just a personal problem: It's a driving force behind soaring rates of anxiety and depression, and behind what researchers are calling the sexual recession-the well-documented trend of people having significantly less sex than previous generations."
"I have recently learned about a newly developed therapy for anxiety, depression, and trauma, which specifically addresses how to reboot our pleasure systems, positive affect treatment. In this post, I will introduce this evidence-based approach, shown to be more effective than traditional therapies, and share how you can begin using its core practices. Note: This is not a replacement for professional help, but a validated toolkit for rebuilding your capacity for joy."
"This "pleasure crisis" is driven by the relentless demands of the attention economy -the pings, the scroll, the low-grade overstimulation that never really stops-and is quietly eroding our capacity for embodied, felt pleasure. Layered on top of this is the traumademic: the collis"
Difficulty experiencing pleasure contributes to rising anxiety and depression and to reduced sexual activity across generations. Positive affect treatment targets the mechanisms that shut down pleasure and aims to reboot pleasure systems. Pleasure shutdown is linked to constant overstimulation from the attention economy, including pings and scrolling that prevent embodied, felt pleasure. Trauma-related patterns further interfere with the ability to experience satisfaction. Positive affect can be cultivated through core practices even when it feels impossibly far away. The approach is presented as an evidence-based toolkit that supports rebuilding capacity for joy alongside professional help.
Read at Psychology Today
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