Lately I’ve been so frustrated because I csnt experience emotions the way j used to. I still have them but it’s not nearly as strong. It’s like big life events dont affect me. I’m pretty sure people think I’m emotionless. I’ve been accused of this actually. I’m not emotionless I just lack it where I should.
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I’m in the same boat. Looking forward to roluperidone. Hopefully we’ll have a treatment that really works on negative symptoms when it comes out.
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Frustrated as well. My negative symptoms have been really acting up over the past several months so much so that I haven’t even participated on this forum.
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I don’t find it a bad thing these days. I’m more rational and less emotional. Previously I’d live in a weird fantasy world. I’m not sure if it was particularly healthy so I don’t mind feeling a lot less emotional. I had a psydoc I did an assessment with who called my dysphoric but I’m actually a pretty warm person still in real life.
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I hate lack of emotion!! My emotions vary from day to day. There are days when I feel apathy (usually if I forgot to drink caffeine) and sometimes I don’t feel emotional when I’m supposed to. For me it’s never 100% emotionlessness. I’m always able to feel something. There’s always something that will make me feel better like work, friends, the wind or a smell, music, or even just a quiet feeling.
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I don’t mind having my emotions dampened a bit. I used to be a very emotional person, others would say I was too emotional.
Now I have better control over myself. I did miss being able to cry when I was on Invega, though
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Im on Invega and I have noticed that my emotions are flat, no desire to do anything. Still gotta get out of bed though. Keep trying.
Yeah I feel this too. As a teen I used to cry every day. But I think mine was from gender dysphoria that’s resolved mostly. But now j cant cry when I should and that bothers me. I cry at random times that make no sense to me lol.
I’d like to feel more emotions for sure. It’s very hard for me though and they don’t feel authentic. Maybe my low self esteem and thought disorder.
Pre being on Consta and now Paliperidone
Negative stimuli- heightened response
Positive stimuli - blunted response
After being on them.
Negative stimuli - A much less heightened response
Positive stimuli- blunted response
Seasonal . This time of the end of the summer.
I’ve been mentioning for weeks. I was given the haloperidol cognition some other anxiety it’s calming me down there is 6 people laying by me
I get teary eyed very easily over things that are touching or emotional. I feel that very strongly.
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I feel the saddest in the summer. I hate summer. That’s really the only emotion I feel anymore, sorrow–and not for normal things. Just a general ongoing sense of despair. Once the weather cools off I’ll feel a little better. I can’t feel much anything else. I’ve been called heartless before because normal things don’t bother me. (Funerals, deaths, natural disasters, others suffering etc). I used to feel extreme anger. Now I don’t even get angry. I barely even get mildly annoyed.
I also noticed I cant exxperience emotions the way I use to since they moved me to risperidone, Feeling slightly better since dose was lowered so I suspect its the antipsychotic.
Try vitamin B12 and Folic Acid - as suggested for the treatment of negative symptoms in high functioning people living with schizophrenia - by a research article posted on this web site. My negative symptoms were really acting up over the past 3 months or so and now I think I feel better.
the vitamins you mention are used to treat withdrawals. Never heard them helping negative symptoms.
My schizophrenia removed all of my emotions entirely, there is no motivation or will to do anything but lay in the bed all day.
http://schizophrenia.com/?page_id=716
Hi @Daze, please read the list. B12 and Folic Acid (B9) say negative symptoms.
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Reducing my olanzapine has helped me get back normal emotions.
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I’ve just flat emotions. But before I was always not so emotionally anyways.