Actually right now I am playing Fire/Red version of Game Boy Advance in an emulator in my cellphone (I play when I'm bored inside a Uber or this kind of stuff haha). Thanks for your offer! But I never played Pokemon GO. XD
(Fun fact: I had chosen Charmeleon in this playthrough, instead of Squirtle. But I really like the glasses Squirtle! He looks so confident and badass! Also, nice that you liked my photo profile, just came into my mind to change and I remembered the Squirtle that I used to use in my Telegram's profile pic XD).
But it's nice that you recovered the energy to be engajed again in this game! Seems like it's very important to you, keep it up! Those things are the ones that could relieve our reality and distract ourselves making the recovery a little bit lighter.
The only game that I consider myself really playing is CS:GO. I always attend when my friends invites me. It keeps me interested in a couple hours and I almost forget my condition for a while! It's really good. The sensation of making a nice play is really nice, this week we won a game by 16x14 (almost draw) and I even spontaneously celebrated! Like, the feeling came from the inside, that was nice.
When you took Risperidone/Abilify you didn't felt anhedonia? Do you remember the dosages? I got lots of side effects.
As I can see it is kinda common. But I'm not sure if my anhedonia developed due APs or it is more like a post psychosis depression (I read this on reddit).
Also, thanks for your words! I also expect to recover soon. Those last months had been tough, but I could say my mood is improving a little bit week by week. For example, today I am able to look at the day and think "it's a pretty day, at least there's a bit of sun!".
Just to mention, last two weeks I was crashing and crying everyday, very hopeless and pessimistic. Struggling with depression and derealization.
Don't know if lithium carbonate (started 2 weeks ago) is helping me or just the fact that the withdrawal from Abilify is getting easier... or my brain chemistry returning... there's lots of theories but it's kinda impossible to be sure.
The only TRUE fact is that I have no control over it, my only way to deal is to keep doing my stuff, being active and letting my body/brain heals itself. Again, we should be grateful for the possibility to our body heals itself with time. It's really awesome to be honest. Brain's homeostasis is incredible (have any of you guys read "Dopamine Nation"? It's a nice book and talks about addictions and brain's recovery - I know we are not dealing with addiction but the mechanisms are kinda the same - getting receptors in balance again!).