How long have you been diagnosed for? My first 7 years or so i mainly felt anger. then that turned to apathy. And now the voices don’t bother me too much, so i’ve been able to relax and feel a little more. I hope it gets better in time for you too xx
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Since July 2023. Yes maybe it is a matter of letting the dust settle after a while.
Thank you xx
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Same here. So numb. Today i gave myself the goal of not faking smiles and laughs and interest with other people for a while. So I’ll just be blank and bluntly say things like how i would naturally be if i wasnt faking all the time. See how i go. It gives me social anxiety to have to pretend i give a heck about anything with other people. Exhausting. Might lose some social points but the stress of pretending to feel is too much.
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Interesting experiment haha please let us know how it goes. I think not pretending all the time is a good way to be. It means you’re honest with yourself all the time.
Its hard to pinpoint what it feels like to have emotions . Thats what I struggle with now. I never questioned stuff like that before on a daily basis.
Have you tried anti depressants?
Hopefully things get better as time goes on.
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Yeah ive tried various anti depressants. They didnt do anything for me. Thanks! Good luck to you.
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Well, I know Bruce Willis was in an episode like that. I think that’s the one you’re talking about.
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I’m 63. I cried for a minute in the hospital 10 years ago, before that, probably not since I was a kid.
I was in the psyche ward because a ton of bad crap happened to me. I had just lost my housing, my mom died, I was in terrible pain from back problems, I had to quit school, I couldn’t go to work and I couldn’t drive and I was in the hospital after staying out for 25 years… All that stuff occurred in the space of a week!
Damn right I cried, getting up in the morning in the psyche ward sucks and I was sitting by myself at 8:00 am, eating some lumpy oatmeal with a plastic spoon and the realization of all the bad stuff that happened to me the week before hit me at once and tears started streaming down. it was only for a couple of minutes. Nobody noticed or if they did notice they didn’t give enough of a damn about me to ask what was wrong.
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