“the day my mind went BLANK like others state, no inner monologue, aimlessness, detachment… after ten years of abuse of myself with all the bad feelings and guilt and disease and stress I caused myself… my mind broke and it was not just the blank mind I felt an emotional amnesia like I did not now my mother, friends etc. like I used to… it was a complete death of my former self.”
“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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