I honestly wish i could cry again. A good cry would be so much better than this numbness. the last time I cried was when I got the antipsyschotic put into me that got rid of my hallucinations. Even then it was a numb cry. It didn’t feel like a release.
I’m struggling with the numbness now
Yeah I find it very difficult to cry myself.
i feel you here. medication didn’t even really make it any easier for me, but it still feels so rare to experience this kinda thing cathartically. overwhelming shame the whole time, instead. too much.
sorry about the numbness.
It’s just hard to keep your head up when you feel so so numb to everything. I don’t know how some of the people here do it tbh. Takes some strength which I don’t have
I cry all the time when it comes to shows too much empathy too have, I tell my mom and dad all the time I wish I didn’t cry so much my emotions are all mixed up I cry when Happy Sad and Angry or all three at once.
Isn’t there a ‘friends’ episode about this?
When Monica tries to get her boyfriend to show emoiton (Greg Kinnear) and then when he eventually did, he couldn’t stop crying and broke up with him 
Haha tbh if that happens in my next relationship I’d say thank you
I felt it was mission impossible to cry when i was on sertraline(zoloft)
i balled my eyes out watching ‘the red turtle’ a studio ghibli movie the other day. A good film might help.
Want me to send you my insurance bill?
I only laugh. I haven’t cried in years.
I think it might be paradoxical laughter.
Raising children will make you cry daily. 
I think the last film I cried to was Grave of The Fireflies. That was in 2022 I think.
Only daily? Must be nice.
My 13 year old is currently dipping a carrot into ranch dressing, just sucking the liquid off, and crying about something her brother said to her in a texting war this morning. (He told her that only she would bring a spoon to the Super Bowl).
Why would she even bother with the Super Bowl? Females have superior brain function at that age to any male under 25, period.
Oh, maybe try some more sad films?
I could try? My feelings are like a rock now and music and films are thenwaves crashing over me, to no avail.
I long to feel stuff like that again but I just can’t feel them.
I went to a gig where the guy played a song dedicated to his late mother and I felt a bit sad but I didn’t feel emotional if thst makes sense.
I’m just gonna try and do stuff until it comes back, but I will take your suggestion into consideration.
Aww ok. That sucks. The meds have become less blocking with time for me. But perhaps i can feel emotions more now because i am less afraid of the voices shaming me for them. therefore i block myself less. I am still short on positive emotions without caffiene though. Hope you can feel more soon
Yes it could be a matter of being in a constant Flight or Fight mode from trauma or like you say, being attacked by voices- but it’s good that you defiantly feel more now despite what they say, I can only imagine things going up for you in terms of emotional ranges.
The most prominent emotion I feel is probably anger when things go wrong for me. I’ve yet to experience positive ones also, but I’m hoping as time goes by I’ll feel more- hope it will be the same for you too x