It occurred to me that I spent a lot of time every day just sitting there, doing nothing at all, with the occasional thought slowly passing through my mind but it’s not like I’m thinking hard. Then I thought back to the time when I was most psychotic, which was in the year before I first went on antipsychotics, and I figured that if I weren’t on meds, I would probably still just be sitting doing nothing a lot, but I’d be tripping out in psychosis despite taking no illicit drugs rather than feeling mostly blank. It made me think that antipsychotics work by targeting the parts of the brain that have wired the wrong way and stopping communication between neurons. So they shut off the faulty brain activity, but the thing is they replace it with nothing. Hence the blankness.
What do you think?