- Still have feelings
- A bit “hollow”
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I think my feelings got switched off at around 16. And I’ve felt a bit hollow ever since.
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I still have feelings, but the AP has taken it to a lesser level. My feelings are running at 20% capacity or something. I know, because I switched to Latuda for a short while before I had to go back to Olanzapine. On Latuda I could feel a real lot more both good and bad. it was like I had not been in touch with my own feelings on olanzapine.
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i actually have feelings but ive been hollow. in my 20s there was just pain. feeling pretty good emotionaly now.
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The meds dampen my feelings but I still have emotion.
Most of the time I’m a bit flat that’s all.
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My emotions are alright. Sometimes a little strong, sometimes a little dampened.
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My emotions range from content to discontent — calm to terrifying
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“The flat effect” is the probably the most prominent negative symptom effecting me. I’m not totally devoid of feeling but I am a bit flat.
I met a woman on Bumble and we’ve been out a couple times. We’ve been talking for months. Anyways I told her all about my psychosis, meds, everything. I told her about negative and positive symptoms and she said she noticed the flat effect a little in me.
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I still feel deeply from both ends of the happy and sad spectrum.
But it’s still not the same as before.
My mum used to tell me that I need to be in a mental hospital cos of my angry outbursts. And my hyper outbursts.
That was before I took abilify. And was diagnosed. It used to upset me that she said that.
I think it’s nice to feel deeply. It feels like life.
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I’m hoping I can get on wellbutrin this month and it will make me less flat. Fingers crossed
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Im very flat and running on empty in autopilot it seems i don’t feel much
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@everhopeful is it normal to feel like this?
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That’s why I did the poll, to find out. It seems really common from the results.
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To many feelings man !
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I can laugh and maybe cry a bit but it feels forced or fake. Mostly I feel very flat
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I think after years of suffering you have to be thick skinned.
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@everhopeful recently I came off one of my aps and like the flood gates were lifted my emotions came rushing back to me. I was beyond overwhelmed with all the things I haven’t been feeling for the previous years that I have been on meds and I was unprepared to handle it all. I didn’t realize how much the ap was dampening my emotions.
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It seems like sz/sza illness results in dampening of emotions hollow feeling its really awful. I dont know the meds might not help with it or make it worse i dunno. I can’t come off meds though or i will be really messed up
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Are you still on ap? What med do you take now, mind me asking?
Are you still numb im just wondering if it makes any difference what meds you take
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That’s me all over.
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It seems to me that I have almost no feelings. But that’s a grand improvement over the way I was before for many years and that was that I had too much, very intense feelings. And that was not good.
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