My meds make me numb emotionally especially the Venaflaxin I think. I can’t cry or feel excitement, really sucks. How about you are you numb emotionally?
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Im not completely numb but dulled i guess. I really can’t cope with being emotional anyway so it suits me
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After my initial psychosis, I had a long period where I was like really depressed and that took away my reactionary emotions or even the ability to reflect what am feeling inside on the outside on the face or body language. It’s great everyone thinks am always calm but girls don’t dig the emotionlessness 
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I’ve never been very excitable, it’s something I suffer a lot when it happens. Excitement is very damaging to my ability to function. If anything meds have a tendency of making me feel more vulnerable, which increases how emotional my subconscious gets, especially if I don’t let anger and judgment take over because it gets perceived internally as a sign of danger which triggers all sorts of anxiety based responses in my subconscious. Sort of like an “if I can’t be angry and I can’t judge others, I must be up sh*t’s creek without a paddle.” If my interpretation of my subconscious responses are to be trusted.
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Yes I’m emotionally numb but I still get annoyed sometimes
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Yeah i dont feel much of anything ever emotionally. But i still have the energy and motivation to get up and do what needs doing. Hopefully my anhedonia or apathy will improve due to some changes im making recently.
There needs to be more done about the negative symptoms of sz and the med induced anhedonia in some of us. It sucks the pdocs mainly only focus on the positive symptoms like delusions and such. I feel the negs and that are almost as debilitating as psychosis itself.
Good luck 
Remember never to just go off your meds though. It will cause psychotic symptoms or worse if suddenly stopped. But you probably already know all this.
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