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How do you support recovery in patients with MDD and AUD experiencing anhedonia and social isolation after losing alcohol-based social networks?

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Psychiatry · George Washington University School of Medicine
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Although the availability of possible sources of social contact varies with age and setting, I usually ask about prior personal experience, particularly in religious organizations that involve social connection. Anhedonia is a matter of degree. It may be possible to get people to chart during the day when they feel a little lift or pleasure and urge them to do more of whatever gives them that feeling (going outside, volunteering, making something). For dense anhedonia, treatment for depression m...

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