Public archive
A public archive of blank-mind and emotional-numbness cases
First-person reports gathered from forums, essays, and communities describe a quiet, hard-to-name state: a blanked mind paired with emotional numbness. This site documents those accounts as they were written — with links back to original sources. It is not medical advice.
496
Total cases
524
Source posts
46
Recovered
66
Partial
270
Not recovered
114
Unknown
473
Both symptoms clear
Drawn from 156 source sites. Each case is one person: repeat posts and crossposts by the same person are combined into one case where known. Counts update from the case JSON. How cases are collected
New · AI interpretation
A summary of all 496 cases: what people attribute the blank mind and numb emotions to, when it starts, how often recovery is reported, and the leading hypotheses for where it comes from. This is an AI-generated interpretation of the data, not medical advice or a clinical conclusion.
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“Gradually, I lost the ability to feel emotions, both positive and negative. Everything became indifferent, empty... Most of the time, I lay in a state of severe depersonalization and numbness... Cogn…”
Cause: sertraline (abrupt then slower discontinuation); protracted withdrawal + PSSD
View case →“I'm so used to having numb emotions and poor cognitive abilities now... I'm starting to worry that I'll have to live with this foggy, empty head for the rest of my life... I never feel really happy a…”
Cause: fluoxetine (Prozac); two years after stopping
View case →“I rarely feel any emotion, mostly sadness, but it still feels like it's far away... what disturbs me the most would be the lack of inner monologue/thoughts... I simply feel like I am just existing.”
Cause: paroxetine (Seroxat) discontinuation Nov 2014, then Feb panic + ~3 weeks insomnia; thought-process stopped; framed as DP
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