I just had now one bad kick from the zyprexa. It even worsened my fears… made me emotionless… it was a break too in a way, but its a fact that i have problems experiencing good emotions. I had it without the meds too, dont get me wrong. But can the meds kill our emotions or its more probable to regain them one day?
Take care all
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I’m hyperemotional now, so yes, it can totally happen. I seemed to spontaneously develop intense emotionality where there was little to none before.
I have been sick almost 10 years now. I still have a flat affect and no emotions.
I don’t have ups or downs. It’s just blah. I don’t even cry at funerals anymore. There is nothing.
I don’t know if it’s the meds or the sz.
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My emotions are pretty gone but it happened during psychosis when I wasn’t taking meds. Now I have bursts of strong emotions at inappropriate times but they are mainly gone. Maybe they will come back I don’t know.
I also feel emotionless when on AP.
Me, I had only negative emotions when I was without meds. so its the illness too in my case. I had very painful emotions, I still have them. Maybe its one of my biggest problems now, that I don’t have pleasant emotions. Ill just hope that aps wont mess with that, but will help in the future once I am calmer…
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But do i risk to remain insensible on meds? Today i was feeling just paranoia and emotional pain. In the evening i was even very insensible. I cant imagine life without emotions. Its been two months on 10 mg of zyprexa and two years on a lower dose of it. Maybe i need time, isnt it please?
Anyone who can share his experience? Cause i felt nothing but pain and fears today. I am in a strange world today, my fears look a bit mystical, idk why its like that. Do i risk to remain insensible like this or it was just a bad day?
Today again i was strongly desensibilized. I suspect the zyprexa of course… its been two months on a dose of 10 mgs. But will this fade away or ill always be like this? When you dont have feelings you have just thoughts from which my head hurts. I cant stop thinking that i am condemned with this illness.
For a long time on my ap i couldn’t cry. i then got put on elavil and i cry a lot. strangely enough i think this is good. i am getting it out finally.
I am on same AP and suffer from emotional, thought and verbal blankness (unless it is something I am familiar with). I think this is aps in general and the illness. Maybe it is preferable to the manic highs and lows without medication. It still sucks but it does not mean you can not live a meaningful life. I feel my heart is still there just very quietly directing things.
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I’ve been on AP’s for many, many years. I have no emotions. I don’t cry at deathbeds of close relatives or at wakes or funerals of close relatives either. When I think of the grisly way my own son committed suicide, (by strangling), it does not incite me to tears or indeed any emotions. I haven’t cried more than once in many years. And this once was when I hadn’t had any sleep. I don’t know if this lack of emotionality is due to my medications or due to negative symptoms of schizophrenia or possibly both.
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Ok, I see for you all… Me, for longtime, it was a mix from the meds and the illness. But one of my docs also told me that I became numb cause I took too many aps. I should have stayed on Zyprexa since it start 8 years ago. I just lost all this time…
Now in fact since I upped the Zyprexa, I have more energy, its new for me. But I can get ragy more now, cause I lost everything. It sucks… I hope I wont scare you all or my friends and family…I hate when my friend always ask me how could I have spent so many years isolated between 4 walls. My mom says she says this by compassion, but its my pain still. I got ultra depressed from my life 20 years ago and I am here now…
I am on generic prolixin…and I still have emotions …no side effects…you might try that.
It can get better, but it takes time. I’m 38 now, I got dx’d at 24 but I have been symptomatic with sz since 21, and it’s just within the past couple of years gotten better.
At my grandpa’s funeral in 2015, I didn’t even cry. Last night, watching “The Lovely Bones” I cried through 2/3rds of the movie silently.
Hang in there, and remember that the flat effect is normal for people like us. Just be patient and kind to yourself.