Lack of emotions

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Is it sz? I always had lack of emotions since my frist memories

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Are we born with sz? I see my friends full of emotions i feel distant from them disconnected emotionally

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Yeah, we seem to have dampened emotions. But that doesnt mean we dont feel at all.

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My peer support says I lack emotions, but I am proud to say movies about dogs always make me cry. Lol.

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I have emotions but I’m told people with sza have them more often than sz folks. It’s hard to have flat emotions when part of your diagnosis is mood instability.

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It’s periodical for me. Sometimes my emotions are vibrant and other times I can be numb.

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Im pretty much completely emotionally numb all the time. But ive mostly gotten used to it. I remember a while ago i was on a lower dose of meds or something and i started to feel emotions again and it kinda freaked me out. Im so used to being numb that when i feel stuff its too much to handle anymore.

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I have poverty of thoughts irl. How do I get thoughts? When i socialize i just listen rarely talk unless asked. I want to participate. I hanged out with my brothers friends but i barely spoke they found me weird i think

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I have emotions. I didn’t for a while because of anhedonia, but therapy helped me climb out of that hole.

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I felt very dull today

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Aziz I lack emotions just llike you I’ve not cried since the death of my father 4 years ago.

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I feel like in order for you to notice a lack of emotions you’d have to have had them at some point. Hard to notice the absence of something that was never there, like colorblind people that only realize they can’t see all the colors when somebody points it out, not because they missed them before.

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That may be true for say a sociopath or a psychopath, but we are not all like that,

For me it was my med that gave me the effective bluntening or ‘Blunt effect’ meaning my meds were too strong & affected the emotional centre of my brain too much.

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Yes some of us had strong emotions before onset of illness but some of us were born Schizophrenics with no emotions.
Psychopath is a person who enjoys to cause pain to others and controlling people.

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I experience more emotions when i take dopamine

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I don’t think we are born sz, i think we could be more susceptible to it but i think its an acquired illness, somewhere in our stages of development something goes very wrong and we get unwell.

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Never knew you could straight up drink the stuff, sounds like the first thing they should try for a lot of issues lol. Does it have too many down sides?

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Its a supplement a pill called Mucuna Pruriens L-Dopa but it makes my positive symptoms worse and make me hear voices.

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Oh, I see. Shame it’s impossible to take it then, but it does prove regaining some emotion is possible. Hopefully they’ll find something effective and tolerable someday

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That’s the t hree views some say that it’s the genes causining Schizophrenia others that’s the environment but most say like you that it’s a combination.

In my case I will clearly say that it’s the genes that made me alcoholic and schizophrenic. My illness started at age 5. My mother is Schizophrenic like me and my father was alcoholic until his dead.