Can you feel joy or pleasure?

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Sex/orgasm gives me the biggest high/most joy

Food gives pleasure more than joy as I see joy as some kind of ultimate pleasure

I don't tend to seek out joy - I like experiencing it but I don't think it's realistic to rely on getting it a lot

When youve split up wth a person and really miss them and they come back to you - that can cause feelings
of elation/joy

Getting a new job can give semi-joyful feelings of success

I'm more about excitement than joy if that makes any sense. When I have joy (rarely & fleetingly) it's always so foreign to me that I'm caught super off guard. (long severe depression comes into play for me though).

I think I feel things too intensely a lot if the time, good and bad. I tend to be quite philosophical about negative stuff I have no control over but the little things can get to me.

On the positive side: food, music, being in the countryside, and after seeing a film at the cinema I get positively high!

I'm numb. I still do experience joy once in a while though I'm not sure it isn't just a form of very intense relief, since that's the sort of situations where it mostly happens.

But, I can experience a deep, deep calm that others don't seem to be able to.

Yes, I can.

The emotions that are almost absent in me are ones that are in relation to other people: love (one human, one dog), jealousy, and loneliness.

Animals give me joy. If I spot a wild animal I've never seen before, I can be excited about it for hours. Same if I have a successful interaction with a wild animal. My two reptiles, especially my antic-filled lizard, give me joy, as does writing and listening to certain music. (Beethoven's ninth quite literally makes me dash about the room like cats sometimes do. Classical music concerts drive me a bit crazy because if I want to respond this way to the music, I can't.) A beautiful day with perfect conditions gives me pleasure. So does reading a good book.

Most of the time my emotions are blunted however I can feel them really intensly instead, nothing in between. I can feel joy or pleasure but usually not often.

A excerpt from an essay I once wrote about this topic:

Most of the time, I don’t know what I think. Sometimes I don’t notice that I’m feeling an emotion. Sometimes I do notice, but I don’t know which emotion it is. I don’t make an immediate connection between chest tightness and anxiety, or light-headedness and excitement. Sometimes they blur together and emotions that are supposed to be pleasant make me so restless and uncomfortable I can barely stand it.

I do know when I am feeling sad, because I find it very difficult to tolerate. It comes in short bursts, like waves of nausea. I rarely cry; instead I grind my teeth, rub my hands or tap my ears. This is so that I have something to concentrate on until the feeling has passed.

Of course I can. I feel joy from the simple things of life--being with my cat, sunny days, books etc....

I just don't feel things deeply or strongly most of the time.

I certainly can. But I am aware that what brings me joy others might very well find boring, or at least, trivial. But it is the simple things in life that really are the *Most* rewarding.
Seeing something new to me, or satisfying my curiosity on some issue/subjet bring me the closest thing to joy.

Sincerely,
Matthew

Of course I can I feel Joy and Pleasure every day

I mostly feel depressed, on edge or numb.....most positive feelings i have are overshadowed by the feeling of emptiness I have.

Only when i'm alone. Rarely i feel happy around people...

I rarely ever feel happy. But that's not to say that I always feel sad. I think my emotional spectrum is completely blunted. I think this is due to the tablets I take. But if I didn't take them I would be experiencing constant extreme anxiety so it's just something I have to deal with.
my most positive emotions are usually when I'm relaxed doing something I enjoy doing. I wouldn't say it is happiness though. I dunno - I've recently related a lot with something called alexithymia. So I think I may experience emotions such as joy and happiness more regularly - I just don't know how to recognise or talk about them.