“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 you felt exactly like this blank mind and anhedonia for five years?… withdrawing and brain zaps… now it does nothing to me like I'm just numb to it all… mind eye doesn't exist… turn into a potato and have no ability to invisige and dream, imagine and be creative”
“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 →“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…”
Cause: desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) SNRI ~4 months (fall 2013) for social anxiety; 2-week taper; off mid-November 2013; symptoms w…
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…
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