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reflect anhedonia (a decreased ability to experience emotions), as people desperately seek for emotional stimulation.
Not exact matches
Box 4 shows that the sample of 812 patients with pain more frequently experienced depression subscale items
reflecting sadness, lack of initiative and
anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure) than those
reflecting low self - worth and meaningless of life.
Our finding that patients with pain reported that they more frequently experienced the depression subscale items
reflecting sadness, lack of initiative and
anhedonia than those
reflecting low self - worth and lack of meaning is consistent with some earlier research in similar samples of patients with chronic pain.6, 9 It is also interesting to compare these items to those endorsed by patients with both depression and medical illnesses, who invariably favour a cognitive formulation.29