Can't cry 1515

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I’m on Olanzapine and Cipralex. I can feel happiness but I can’t seem to cry anymore. I wish I could have a good cry. It used to make me feel better. Anyone else get this from their meds?

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I experienced those kinds of meds before. The feeling is bored and plain all time.

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I can’t cry really. It took years for me to cry over my mother’s death. I feel things I just can’t cry. I used to cry at the littlest things. I was a crier for sure, very emotional. Maybe I got it all out of my system already lol.

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I couldnt cry on invega but I can on latuda

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I cried today for the first time in awhile. I didn’t enjoy it one bit. I’d probably prefer not being able to cry. I’m on Olanzapine 10 mg.

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I wish I could cry, but I haven’t really since my schizophrenia onset. I remember I cried once while watching my cat being put down, but even then it wasn’t that much. I used to be a like this because I had virtually no emotion because of my negative symptoms, but now I think its because of antipsychotics because I can definitely feel emotions.

I think it’s good for everyone to cry, not excessively, but every now and then; it can be good to display emotions.

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I’m sorry to hear about your cat @John_Raven

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My brother’s dog died and I was trying to cry or feel any sort of sadness and it was then that I knew depression medicines were a give and take. That there were downsides to them. I really wanted to empathize with my brother and feel a profound sadness with him I loved that dog and there her limp body was in his arms and I couldn’t muster up a tear.

I eventually forced myself to cry just through sheer muscle memory, she deserved to be mourned properly.

Now the depression medicine is losing some of its effectiveness and I’m having bouts of sadness but I can cry again and its cathartic. I’m not frequently thinking about death and mortality which is why I got on the medicine in the first place, so I feel that I’m not going to bother changing it until that problem comes back.

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