No i don’t
I’m dependent on my family
used to translate articles but not any more
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Okay i am in same boat… some day we will work and marry… try to be optimistic…!!
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haha
I hope so
What ever life brings to me I accept
Life is wise
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Guys, please stick to the subject. I still haven’t gotten a definitive answer as to how to break the flat effect caused by my illness.
There isn’t a way. Why do you want to have affect. Just talk blankly…
I want to have feelings like a normal human being. I want to react to things in a healthy way.
I want to feel alive.
I feel like I’m less deadened on Seroquel. But Seroquel gives me some side effects.
I had enourmous deep emotions before Invega Sustenna, I now feel completely nothing at all, Invega stole all my emotions and my will to live. I stopped Invega three months ago and I pray every day to have my emotions back in a year, my life was all about emotions, it doesn’t worth to live like this…
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Yes I relate to that. Clopixol deadened me. On Seroquel I feel pretty much normal most of the day, like my normal self. Except it makes me feel ■■■■ right after I take it…
You can’t, only stopping Invega for more than a year could give your emotions back
But I had flat emotions even before I started invega, before I started any kinds of medication.
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It is probably better to feel dulled than be crazy. Just saying.
I don’t accept to live like this, I rather to hear voices again, honestly if I won’t have my emotions back in three years I would rather to not continue… About a year ago I was so emotive that I killed a mosquito, then felt guilty and cried hard, now thanks to Invega I would not feel anything even if my mother dies…
I am really tired at the moment. I used to feel the way you do.
Me too especially when I’m see g my psychiatrist with my cpn. Sigh
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Personally I feel like my flat affect may be the result of habitually repressing my emotions due to hallucinations, delusions and life experiences I’ve had in the past. Maybe it’s worth it to talk to people about the hallucinations you’ve had, however painful it may be, so that you can bring them into the light and see them for what they are with others help. It will help you to see that they weren’t real and give you a new perspective on them, which may erode the haunting effect that they can have.
I don’t know. I’m happier with a flat affect than I was with raging, out of control emotions. Not to mention us flat-affectors get less wrinkles as we age, so we stay younger lol.
All the same I feel you, I miss having an active libido and being able to release emotion.
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Wine spritzers make me cry, watching movies.
Why want more emotions than you already have? Don’t feel much? Use that to your benefit and challenge your intelect instead, sure enough the first thong you will feel will be frustration at your limits. Try it: try learning something new that is not easy, like coding or mathematics, a new language or something challenging and new to you. You will feel alive, I promise, as soon as you hit the first stack overflow or difficult problem, as soon as those rules and exceptions don’t seem to stick.
You are lucky to feel less, we millenials always think we have to feel loads of stuff to be alive, but that’s not true, we have to do a lot of things to be alive. Volunteer. Start a DYI project and finish it.
On that subject, try doing more stuff that are out of your comfort zone. Meet with more people, even if your social anxiety (if you have it, I do) makes you feel stupid for the first two or three meetings. Better yourself at the game those people play( for me it’s coding) and in a while you will not feel that stupid and anxious all of the time. Or get a new job and learn on the go. Ask more questions in shops, for no reason (I draw my line at going in bridal shops to ask for prices, so far, maybe I’ll get over it, though). So on, so forth.
It’s not what you feel that makes you alive. It’s what you choose to do and keep on doing. Count your accomploshments per week. You don’t have to feel pride, just count them, and then do some more, or more meaningful things that are hard to achieve.
Apologies for the lengthy post. I am an over-emotional type of person and base my decisions too much on what I feel, to my subsequent frustration. You don’t know it yet, but what you have is a blessing in disguise.
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I seemed to have flat affect a lot before I started taking my mood stabilizer, topomax. I don’t know why that helped but it got better at the same time, it could be a coincidence.