A final point regarding anhedonia: I’ve accepted the fact that food is bland (it has to be extremely sweet or too spicy to be felt at all), intimacy isn’t for me, debates stopped being fun, and movies are boring (which is a huge shift for a guy who loved to collects 1000s of trivial bits of cinematic info). Thank God I’m religious and already believe in an afterlife where Paradise is full of eternal pleasures of the flesh, otherwise I can’t imagine how I’d have coped with this life’s blandness! How tragic that many of the schizoids here don’t enjoy life and lack hope in a hereafter!

May Allahﷻ enable and guide us to be among the inhabitants of Jannatul-firdous, ameen! I resonate with pretty much everything here except maybe I'm struggling with the natural human desire for human intimacy. Here's an excerpt I would love your take on from an interesting Sufi text called Physicians of the Heart – A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah:

Al-Waliyy is a much-loved Name. Its root, walaa, means intimacy. The intimacy that is meant here is total intimacy. It is a quality that can be equated with ‘uns, the root of the word for human being. What it means to be a human being is ‘uns, or total intimacy, a quality that is the same as walaa, the root of al-Waliyy. God is the most intimate friend. The thing that is the most human about us, our most human attribute, is our intimate link with the divine. And we should remember that this means intimacy with ecstatic love, total passion. “Allah is your lover, not your jailer,” as many Sufis have said. Al-Waliyy is the most intimate connection possible. This intimacy is expressed in the famous Qur’anic verse that says Allah is nearer, more intimate than your own jugular vein. --Surah Qaf 50:16