For the most part it would not be far off the mark to say I’m emotionally quite flat . However there are brief moments when what I’d call an intense nostalgic emotion surfaces ., The ‘your happiness moment in your past’ thread did that. I thought of a time in the past and felt intensely tearful. I wanted to reply to the post, but couldn’t.
The pdoc has told me the meds can cause emotional flatness , but I’m wondering whether the emotional flatness is a also a defence mechanism against such intense emotionality.
It could be a defense mechanism. If emotions are too intense for you, your brain could have went into a sort of survival mode, bunting the emotions so you can cope
I feel flat a lot to. I just don’t enjoy things like I used to. I think it’s the medicine that does it. Whatever chemical it pumps into our brains really does some damage to feeling