I feel numb

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My brain feels numb, so do my emotions. It’s not from meds. Does anyone else deal with this? Is it common with schizophrenia?

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I’m not sure. Since starting APs, I’ve had a harder time showing emotions. I already didn’t express emotions, but now it’s worse. In my family if we cried, we were given a reason to cry. In other words crying caused beatings. I don’t cry now

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That’s the same way my raising was.

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Ok. So that makes it hard. Try letting yourself feel and express pain while alone

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I’ve been flat more often in the past few weeks. Can’t show a lot of emotion, or facial expression. I’m unmedicated. I experience it from time to time for years, but it’s never been this consistent before.

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I also feel emotionally numb. Sometimes I just get tired of it all.

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I feel numb sometimes and have a hard time crying even at funerals

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Sometimes I cry but no tears come out

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It is weird. Sometimes I like feeling numb. What does that make me haha

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Sometimes it takes away the pain of being human

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Yes that must be it. It is like an emotional blanket sometimes

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I guess that’s the point of comfortably numb song title.

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Yeah, sit back and let the nothing cover you

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Yes i have this for many years now

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I prefer it tbh

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You wouldn’t be saying that if it was for many years and nothing can be done about it??

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Oh really. How comes

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I probably would. I’m not a fan of emotions, or emotional things, even when I’m not flat. Being flat feels more honest.

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Well you wouldn’t really know unless youd been through it??

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This is true. But being numb makes it difficult to have honest relationships with normal people. I feel dishonest showing emotion I don’t have to present normal.

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