Anyone else feel emotionally numb or flat?
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I AM gorilla 
Seeing a new psych and he says no antidepressants.
I’m on Invega and Depakote now, and feel like I’m dragging my ass! Arnt you schizoaffective bipolar?
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To be honest my moods are all over the place lately.
Felt wired before now I feel suicidal.
Ever since increasing the Risperidone I’m not feeling so well.
I do feel flat, lazy and dead all of the time.
I am sick of this â– â– â– â– â– â– â– illness and tired of the meds!
I also miss my dog so much!
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I don’t know what I am. I have to take an atypical for now so it doesn’t really matter.
I don’t know anymore smh
What happened to your dog @Wave? What kind of dog was it?
I don’t feel flat on abilify in general. I do have good days and bad days. I wish the effect was more consistent.
When i was on seroquel, I felt flat. I didn’t have moods. Just flat. And psychotic. Seroquel was a very dangerous med for me.
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That’s the problem with the meds. Only mood stabilizers seem to be consistent. The atypicals and the antidepressants work when they want to.
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I feel flat. But it’s not the meds it’s the disease. I know this bc I am flat wo meds
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Feel nervous and jittery sometimes on my meds, like a reserve of nervous energy. My forehead feels physically numb like if I tapped my fingers on my forehead I wouldn’t feel anything.
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Yes, I’ve been feeling as you describe, “emotionally numb or flat,” since going on my 3 mg dosage of Risperidone in October. There just isn’t the wider range of feelings or moods that was my normal way of experiencing, before getting ill several months ago. I’m guessing the meds play a key role. It feels like I’m missing out on something but hard to say what exactly.
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It may not be the meds but the holiday season and/or less daylight. Do you feel a loss of vitality during the holidays every year? A website such as this one is helpful throughout the year, but especially during the holidays.
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I seem to be waffling from numbness/flat to intense emotional pain and crying all the time. I blame the meds and my brain.
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Hopefully it’s more the meds then your brain.
Maybe they’ll come out with better ones and we’ll all feel a lot better. Im pretty sure the meds are doing this to me. But if I stop them I don’t even want to know what will happen.
I was actually looking forward to this Holliday season because last Holliday season I spent some time in the hospital. I’m being treated by a new dr so there been some med changes in there and I don’t know what to make of the results. Ie. Adding Prozac to lamictal and latuda. I feel overly medicated but God only knows what will happen to me if I stop taking the latuda which I believe to be the culprit.
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When I feel flat it is bcuz of my sz and depression not bcuz of my meds. My meds actually help me not to feel so dead. So nowadays I feel less dead.
I feel flat too. Although I’ve been a bit teary recently.
Like @Wave I’m sick of this schizophrenia and meds and the rest of it.
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I also feel flat when I think I should be excited. I do get angry though so it can’t be a complete flatness. I think sz or my meds cause me to not get happy so easily.
Hey @anon84763962
I’m sick of the meds but I do take them or I will end up Hospitalized.
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I stopped this week. I’m back on them now. Stopping made me really sick with withdrawals. I thought stopping them would be just like stopping a vitamin because I didn’t think they were having any effect on me.
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