This is one of the symptoms I hated.Do you feel apathetic and don’t communicate and remain silenced?Any idea how to make this better and have more emotion + communicate better?
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I do practice smiling so it doesn’t seem forced. Also everyone around me now knows I have a condition that prevents me from being expressive.
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Similing is nice.Its good that some people know your condition
I feel like I lack happiness sometimes. I try to get through the things I usually do anyways but it is really annoying that I am having trouble enjoying them anymore. I think I am better on some days. Today is bad for me that way.
As for communicating, most of the time I have no problem with one or two people who are calm. If there are too many people or they are excited or angry, I can have problems.
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Enjoying the things you do is important,whatever your doing enjoying make it last and easier to pass
I just try to use logic to figure out what my emotions would/should be and then I pretend that I am feeling something. I’m a decent actor apparently…
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Sometimes speaking up starts an incident. So we don’t say anything to avoid getting into anything deeper and more than we can deal with.
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Ye,staying quiet is good also
I have yet to cry or shed tears one time since my mother’s death over a year ago. I didn’t cry at her deathbed or at her funeral. I didn’t cry at my son’s funeral either. I’m beginning to think I have no emotion. I rarely to never laugh either. That’s why I never watch comedy tv or movies. I don’t laugh. I don’t cry at night thinking about my son’s grisly suicide either. You would think that would make anyone cry. He strangled himself after all! I used to be chock full of emotion. Too much emotion. So much that I was constantly sad and suicidal, years and years ago. Around the clock. And now, nothing. No emotion.
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it’s common I think. it’s negative symptom. I have lack of emotion and lately lack of empathy. I feel that my problems are bigger than others’
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Yes I feel a strong lack of emotions, and of enjoyment. I don’t speak very much beyond what’s necessary
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hi,
i usually only feel like this while’ medicated…
otherwise i am what i think of as quite emotional… 
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When ever I have increased my dosage of medication I have felt flat. Takes a week or so to level out.
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Yes. Our emotions are there, but sometimes we detach as a way to protect ourselves from breaking.
Honestly, that’s all I can say because I’m not sure if I am feeling lack of emotion right now, or mental solidity. I just know I’m sick, so that means I’m okay.
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I always thought its quite common in schizophrenia, no? Maybe I am wrong, idk… I can be closed as a shell sometimes. its difficult yeap…
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I feel lack of emotion all the time
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I went into a fancy department store restroom one day. They had the same garbage produced by someone the previous day, in there. I said something about pigs not cleaning the bathroom. Someone said I was screaming. I wasn’t. Most of the time they say this ■■■■■■■■, about people like me not having any emotions. I think they’re all nuts.
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