I talk to a few people at work but I can’t seem to get into the conversation when its a fun topic.
When someone says something funny I just don’t feel the urge to laugh. I fake it.
I wish there was a way to fix this
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maybe it takes practice, i would keep trying, i use to fake it as well, I had a flat/blunted affect which stopped me from feeling or being emotional but it got better for me after i had a med change.
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I’m glad you’ve posted this. I’m like this too. Unless the conversation is something I’m really into eg directed by me in a manic state for example. I cannot empathise with the humour of normal fun topics - I also give of a fake laugh, which comes across as a nervous/weakness laugh
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What med did you change from/to? I had a med change from paliperidone injection to aripiprazole tablets to see if it would help with the numbness but it didn’t.
I resonate highly with this man. I used to have a really silly sense of humour and could be naturally funny, even as recently as 2021. But since coming out of hospital, I feel really out of touch with humour in general.
I feel horrible when I can’t connect with people in the matters of humour.
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yeah, abilify didn’t help me either it made me worse, My med isn’t approved in the US its amisulpride, i cant recommend it though bc idk how anyone else will react, everyone reacts differently with meds.
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My Doctor said that in his experience abilify doesn’t numb you? So he concluded that its the illness that’s doing it.
My care team all think that my anhedonia comes from my constant self analysis and needing to control everything which I’d like to believe. At least that’s fixable.
But from reading people’s experience on here in the past, including on this thread, it seems like it could be the illness doing it. But it gets confusing because some people (like you) seem to have good experiences after a med change.
It’s all so confusing
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I feel it really weakens my personality especially in passive situations, I can]t be the leader I used to be. For example with my brothers, when casual conversations happen. They walk all over me verbally - its hella disrespectful bc its all just humour but I can’t humour back in banter
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Sorry to hear that I hope you find a way to feel less isolating at work 
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Yes, you feel like you can’t say anything back to them. I feel this too! It’s so bad, I feel crippled in that way with my friends. They make jokes about me, not about my illness, but just other bs and I can’t say anything back, I feel slow af. I feel overly passive and playing it safe with my language. Its infuriating.
Maybe it’s a depression thing too. I can’t imagine everyone with sz has that and if they did, they might’ve overcome it. But that’s me with hope.
I do feel that I’m getting a bit better socially compared to last year when I came back from the hospital, maybe by like 2% lol.
It would be good if we all knew what our definitive origin point for our problems were so that we could tackle them. But there’s just so much fog.
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I genuinely think it’s the sz. I also don’t think antidepressants fix it really, maybe the tiniest bit but idk, I’m just guessing. But you’re describing the exact issue i have and we’re near identical in this regard
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It’s negative symptoms of Sz.
Even if it is, l’d like to believe that we can recover from this. Negative symptoms can go away. I hope things get better for you man.
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