Absence of Thoughts

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I was wondering if anyone else has expearanced this, do phychiatrists have a special name for it?

Sometimes when people talk to me I try to think about what they have said, but nothing happens my mind just goes blank! It’s a absence of thoughts.

Sometimes I then try to repeat what they have said if I can remember it, to see if that helps, It’s not quite thought blocking though! But when ever I think in my head I hear the voices thinking insted of myself in my head and on the rare ocasion I do hear myself thinking I don’ recognise myself anymore and it sounds more like one of my voices. They’re not putting thoughts into my head though!

Is this comman on antiphycotics I’ve been back on Olanzapine(generic) for over 4 yrs now!

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I suggest you bring that up to your doctor cause I’m not sure the meds are working for you. But I’m far from qualified to say.

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if the brain an’t kicken the you not thinking, hi Dr Zen here iner thoughts start with one iner voice unwardown for a illness like schizophrenia sorry peep foods help bust …

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I had a blank mind on haldol decanoate shots 75mg every two weeks.
Normally, my mind never stops thinking, analyszing, ruminating,and just plain running. Unfortunately for those around me I tend to talk to myself, and answer myself as well.
on the shots, there was just nothing in my head. Nothing. blank. Nada. empty.
Even when others talked to me and waited for a response from me, it took all I had to process their words, and that left no energy left to think up a response.
I begged my pdoc to try another med because the silence was too lonely.
I switched to geodon, and the voices were back chatting up a storm, wanting to know why they were given a one way bus ticket to the end of the earth.
Aren’t you glad we’re back?
I was.

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My head goes blank sometimes. I thought it was because of ADHD. I don’t have Zyprexa. I have Abilify. But this happened a lot before I got any meds at all.

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I also have the brain wipe clean… and I’m stuck.

But I just have wait and hope that train of thought comes back.

For the most part… I’m sort of the opposite… there are 100s and 100s of thoughts on a wheel spinning in my head… and sometimes the wheel spins so fast I can’t get the thoughts off of it…

my mind is a blur of racing thoughts all spinning too fast to capture.

Sometimes it feels like my mind is spinning so fast I will literally break out into a bit of a sweat.

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I think this is a symptom of schizophrenia. I noticed the same thing off meds. Sometimes I’ll have to read a sentence a few times before it sticks. There are a lot of cognitive deficiencies associated with schizophrenia. Difficulty remembering and concentrating are some of them.

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when that’s happened to me i’ve been told it’s “thought blocking”. when the thoughts just bottom out of my head (oftentimes mid sentence or thought it empties and there’s nothing. just no thoughts and nothing). i’ve also been told it’s a symptom. and that’s the name. i feel like if i type any more i’m about to just keep repeating myself so take care.

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I feel what you’re speaking of. At times my mind will cut off, repeat, or sometimes a non-thought thought will make the thought before I finish it myself.

I made a diagram of how it works at times. The red is basically a transparent thought that is definitely like the voices.

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As I read through the posts I have some to the conclusion I’m describing more than one problem!

Some thought blocking and cognitive deficiency and hearing voices talking my thoughts instead of in my voice!

I’m curious what a scan would show, but as we all know their isn’t a physiological test for schizophrenia, but that’s another topic!

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I’ve had that in that before but it’s slightly different atm! In that it’s my thought but It’s someone else saying it in a different voice, which sounds similar to some of my voices.

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Yeah, thats what I meant. I didn’t know how to describe it in the photo

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I have this blank mind often, but then sometimes my mind is full of thoughts when I am most creative. The blank mind is somehow peaceful when there are no negative thoughts either.

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I know, I’m bumping a pretty old topic but I’m experiencing the same thing as OP since I’m under medication.
I used to have racing thoughts that was causing anxiety but now since I’m under medication my mind is kind of blank, It’s weird, it’s like I can’t think clearly and the “little voice” in my head doesn’t seem to work
You know, when you’re reading something there’s a kind of inner voice that you hear in your head, I’ve lost it, my mind is completly blank, it’s like I can’t “hear” my thoughts

I don’t know if it’s related to some dopamine blockade or high level in serotonin in the brain because when I stopped Invega Sustenna everything stopped, (didn’t take any other medication excepted high dose of buspiron to deal with anxiety), my thoughts were back but I was thinking pretty fast that led me to be hospitalized again.

But it’s weird, when I started zuxclopixol my thoughts slowed down, I was feeling fine, but for a short time only, anxiety struck back (I was on low dose of buspiron when I’ve been hospitalized) , my pdoc prescrived me Escitalopram to deal with those (which I stopped as of today) and then my thoughts progressively started to disappear, again, I don’t know if it’s due to the neuroleptic or the antidepressant.

I only stopped my antidepressant a few weeks ago, today I’m under Abilify and this is the only medication I take now, but even if it’s a half dopamine agonist my thoughts are still not back and it’s really annoying.

I don’t consider myself as dumb, but the fact I’ve lost this capacity makes things kinda complicated, especially when it comes to learn new things and remember them.
I don’t want to stop my treatment as I did before, but I’d like to know where is this coming from and how is this called.

I’ve made some researches on the Internets, found only some topics that are describing (as this one) what I’m experiencing but nobody have a goddamn clue about what is this symptom that I’d discribe as a negative one, but not listed as one

Do peoples under Abilify are experiencing the same thing as me or it’s just my brain that is completly f*cked up ?

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I’m on Abilify. I feel dumb. But I did feel that on Zyprexa and Fluanxol too. Fluanxol made my head quiet. Didn’t even hear my thoughts.

On 25 mg Abilify now. I have voices and racing thoughts. Also suffer from Anhedonia. It’s a negative symptom of sz. Feel no joy or happiness or lust.

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