Hang onto the hope that things will get better. It may take time... even a lot of time, but the damage shouldn't be permanent. My dopamine pathways have been damaged through chronic meth use, which has left me with anhedonia - the inability to experience pleasure. It could take months or even years for my brain to repair itself, but I'm confident it will. Hang in there.
I am unfortunately in the same situation as you Sweet P and BBEN and many many others here.
Where after years of chronic meth and MDMA use it has caught up to us.
Its almost like those good times we had were borrowed emotions that we some how used up and now that debt is being called in bigtime with interest..
Myself and my ex wife of ten years partied HARD for ten years solid and neither of us are the same people we were before.... We lost our home our relationship , careers and now it seems our very selves and what made us, US.
I only have only recently learnt here on bluelight that it was probably those years of excess that is behind what can only be described as the loss of our ability to feel happiness or genuine contentment.....
I have lost interest in all the things that I used to love .....
I find it hard to find pleasure in anything these days there is no contentment and I cant remember the last time I genuinely laughed at anything where as in the past I was the clown and relished that role.
In a perverse way i find it comforting to learn that it was the drugs that did it and that maybe just maybe my brain will recover enough for me one day to feel what I used to feel.....
Its about five months since I have used anything stronger that pot and alcohol but I have tried so many anti deps that just made things worse for me and increased the negative (suicidal) feelings. Fuck them all I say !
I have been seeing a Psych but I dont really see any benefit there and for the last few months the only thing keeping me from bowing out is the effect it would have on my family.
Its like playing a game of monopoly where you only own old kent RD and theres no way you can win but you keep throwing the dice so everyone else can still play.
Like you Sweet P I live in hope that this will get better that the spark might come back.... Seems a long shot right now but life has suprised me in the past and maybe in time it will do so again.....
Its like watching a movie you know is shit but you watch it to the end just to see how it ends.........