I read its a symptom of schizophrenia but meds only reduce it, they don’t get rid of it. Also meds simply suppress emotions instead of fixing them.
I found out that a higher dose get rid of it more but I loose the tiny bit of emotions remaining in me.
Is it caused by too much dopamine in the limbic system of the brain? I studied the limbic system in university and its responsible for our emotions.
Risperdal blocks dopamine in the limbic system I read on Wikipedia which explains my lack of emotions.
Other people…
“It supports a variety of functions including emotion, behavior, motivation, long-term memory, and olfaction. Emotional life is largely housed in the limbic system, and it critically aids the formation of memories.”
Being honest, part of your problem is possibly that your illness as prevented you from properly maturing emotionally yet. I know there are some days where I’m still catching up between autism, SZ, and addiction problems.
Probably, I had voices and paranoia since 15 y.o., cognitive symptoms since 12 y.o.
Ya, I think I’ve always been emotionally immature by several years probably due to autism/Aspergers. Same thing with my caffeine addiction. I got schizophrenia at 22 years old. So I’m sort of immature compared to a thirty year old…pretty sad.
My mom sometimes says I act like a child.
I was born premature and underweight, I am sure that didn’t help.
Sz made me go from underweight 127lb to obese 300lb in a couple of years.
My skin has so much stretch marks bcz of that.
I was about 145 pounds before SZ now I’m at 209 pounds.
Are you talking about inappropriate affect as in your emotional expressions do not match your internal experience?
I laugh for no reason or on sad things like the death of a family member since I was born my family told me.
It’s a disorganized symptom. It is associated with a more serious and difficult to treat illness. It is absolutely not your fault.
According to my family I had it since I was born, they told me I was laughing when I heard that my grandmother died, I was 6-7 y.o. I really think its an abnormal limbic system maybe genetically.
You can see similar symptoms in patients with brain damage in the limbic area. Also, schizophrenia with a lot of disorganized symptoms often develops earlier.
Neither you or I can do anything about what happened. Zyprexa turned me into a land whale. Just gotta move forward and work on solving the problem now.
WALKIES!
Huh, I bet that would explain why my emotions are extremely difficult to control and confuse me sometimes. I’ve had problems with psychosis to some degree ever since I was 6, at least, based on my own memory.
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