Flat affect: inability to show emotions on face, through voice, and through non verbal social cues. I hate that no one can ever tell what I think of a certain situation. There are parts of me that are still there, but I can’t display those things to the world. It’s like every thought, opinion, and feeling I have goes into an endless empty void. There are certain social situations where I understand the context of what is going on, and I want to be able to share my thoughts on it, but people don’t even look to me anymore. Flat affect is my least favorite symptom. Tbh, I can kind of care less about anhedonia. I have gotten so used to not being able to enjoy stuff, like it’s whatever. The real suffering is the inability to socialize.
Besides positive symptoms, the worst symptom I had of sz was anhedonia. Mine has improved a great deal , though.
I see, I just don’t mind anhedonia anymore. I can sit and do nothing all day, and it doesn’t bother me. I know it should, but eh. I do enjoy some things, but it’s more like a superficial enjoyment. I enjoy coffee. But mostly because the flavors/ smells brings me back to better days.
but trust me. I do get it. I get how much anhedonia sucks. I’ve just found my apathy has allowed my to be okay with my anhedonia. (yeah that’s kinda messed up now that I think about it).
My least favorite would be having no motivation to do anything and everything feels hard. Idk what that is medically called but i wish i could fix it.
It’s called alogia (just fyi).
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Ive definitely been told i have a flat affect, but i also have been told lately i make a lot of facial expressions. My therapist admitted she fibds me hard to read
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hmm… it’s weird, cause on a technical level, I know I have flat affect, but when I go to work, I often times forget how bad it is, and all I get is unfriendliness from coworkers. But also " your therapist finding you hard to read" thing, yeah, people at my work can’t ever tell my intentions. Or if I try to initiate conversation, people can’t tell that is what I’m trying to do… etc. honestly I could make a whole post on my struggles at work. (maybe I should do that).
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