“Emotions were blunted, distant, indistinct… only experiencing 10% of the full emotion… That constantly-flowing river of emotions, internal monologue, subconscious thought, was just gone… where all my deeper self had always been there was just a blank space… If I'm talking to someone now… there is no "inner monologue" happening, there is nothing else… I've had to attend weddings… where I KNOW I should feel something…happiness, pride, anything…and I just don't.”
“blank mind/inner monologue - no "drifting off" in thought… no deep emotions… @Michael: totally, I feel like I have no emotions at all… Now my mind is always "silent" and blank, like I've completely d…”
Cause: Severe DP/DR after fighting thoughts/emotions one morning until mind 'disconnected' and went silent (New York). Depress…
View case →“For me when i first got it, i was tired, no DP, no anhedonia, then i got DP, then a year later it changed to anhedonia, then the final stage was blank mind/ no imagination/no emotions… No feelings, e…”
Cause: Progressive depression/DP path: tired → DP → anhedonia → final stage blank mind / no imagination / no emotions. Attribu…
View case →“my mind is blank all the time, like someone turned off my brain. I just look at things and I can't think… The other symptoms are anhedonia and huuuuge apathy… anhedonia very slowly progressed to this…”
Cause: Onset ~age 15 during stressful period; slow progression of anhedonia then blank mind. Rejects depression/schizophrenia…
View case →“This is fucking awful I have been like this as well for 4 months now… it feels like the remainder of yourself is "dead"… return of cognition and no Anhedonia… And question to MichaelTheAnhedonic have…”
Cause: Severe dissociation from trauma (rejects ADHD label). Also on SSRI which he says may have worsened/numbed further; wean…
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