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I live in supported accomodation and I am pretty much bed ridden, feel apathetic, no emotions, no thoughts, find it hard to maintain conversation, can't follow tv. I've been on olanzipine for nearly a year but the anhedonia and apathy, lack of tiredness, started in December. I'm in 17.5mg a day. ... I got put on sertraline also when I said I was feeling numb and blank. I can just lie in bed and think of nothing to pass the time.
Cause
Reddit r/Antipsychiatry first-person OP: forced onto olanzapine/Zyprexa in hospital (not labeled schizophrenic or bipolar); 17.5 mg/day nearly a year; later also sertraline after reporting numb and blank. Attributes no emotions + no thoughts + anhedonia/apathy + blank mind (can lie in bed and think of nothing) to olanzapine. Unused post distinct from 1jzt7xv; non-Invega. Live Reddit 403; quote from search-index OP excerpt.
Duration
On olanzapine nearly a year at posting (17.5 mg); anhedonia/apathy/lack of tiredness started in December; still on-drug and asking if coming off would help
Recovery notes
No recovery claimed. Asking whether coming off olanzapine would help. Replies urged slow taper and one said 100% better after coming off (not this OP). No later OP update in available excerpts.
Source URL
https://www.reddit.com/r/Antipsychiatry/comments/1jqum9b/olanzapine_zyprexa_blank_mind_and_apathy/

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