I’ve posted about this before, but now that I’ve held down a job a few months I’m around people a lot more. People at work tell me I have no emotion on my face or in my voice. Team leaders say that I stare at them with a dazed expression and never blink when they are training me for a new job. I don’t know what’s up. I don’t feel too many emotions and my face always feels like stone. Is it the latuda?
Blunted or flat effect can come from 2 sources: the disease itself and the medication. I probably have less of a flat effect than others due to abilify and the way it works.
Unless you change your meds in some way, you may be stuck with the blunted effect.
Given that you’re a bit of a success story, you should think twice about a med change I think.
Yes, the medication works so well for me, the only problem is I’ve become a doe-eyed dummy doll.
My nickname at work is…“Stone”…
The Staff think I walk like I have 2 feet in a pale of cement.
And when everyone around me is going Bat■■■■ Crazy to meet the daily deadline…I’m always as cool as a cucumber.
I always deliver, and get the 50 employees under my watch out on time.
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It’s a good subject to bring up with your psychiatrist next time you see them. If you’ve ‘become’ that way, it’s probably the meds. But it’s a bit of a compromise at the end of the day. A trade off of side effects versus benefits.
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I will tell her about it next time, but im sure she’s noticed. Everyone has. I think the benefits of the medication outweighs the insanity I experienced before.
Just want to know if anyone else has this side effect from lurasidone.
Are you on any benzos?
Just one mg clonazepam at night.
That could be a culprit, I was on 0.5mg Cloneazapam a day, and since I’ve stopped I feel the ‘activating’ effects of abilify. Latuda is supposed to be activating too.
Don’t stop Cloneazapam without your doctors advice on how to do it. It was hellish for me coming off it withdrawal wise.
I’m surprised you get that much personal feedback. I’ve worked customer service jobs way back when I was though socially far better off but mentally in a world of it’s own and the only feedback I got was the occasional “Get a damn haircut” or “you could show up a few minutes earlier…maybe pick up the paper on you’re way in”
Otherwise the only personal comment/question was from co-workers like “You’re a lot different from you used to be, what happened to you?”
I’ve been on clonazepam for years and never had the blunted affect until latuda, or when my mom died. I don’t know which one caused me to become stone, but it’s something I can’t control.
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Yeah, my coworkers and minimal family members tell me I have no emotion and that I stare without blinking. I don’t realize that I’m doing it, so it’s both funny and weird to me that I’m doing it.
I’ve always been emotionally censored/blunted (without medication). Autism, anxiety, negative environmental feedback when emotionally outward … Meds that typically blunt emotions just make my internalised negative emotions less affective, which is good.
I had the Flat Affect on Abilify, but I was on high doses 27 mg at the highest.
Not so much on a lower dose of Risperdal.
On 4 mg of Risperdal I was getting pretty Flat.
Sometimes higher doses of the AP makes a difference.
When I was on Navane, an older Typical AP, I was an emotionless robot!
I don’t know whether I strictly have blunted/flat effect. Nowadays I don’t feel any emotion that strongly. Pre consta I would feel negative emotions strongly but positive emotions would be dulled.
I need to go higher on my AP dose, Ive been an emotional wreck!
Lots of Ups and Downs and everything in between!
Its a Roller Coaster ride! 