Blankedonia Databaseblank mind · numb emotions
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Woke up at 6am. Immediate panic. Still empty, no, worse... no feelings at all, just fear/panic. ... The depression is unlike anything I've ever felt - like a "nothingness"... loving feeling have gone, no good emotions, no...nothing. Like my head is empty...
Cause
Shane88L first-person Surviving Antidepressants intro (4 Oct 2018): ~3 weeks olanzapine/Zyprexa then chaotic dose changes and cold-turkey attempts. Attributes empty head + no good emotions / nothingness and periods of no feelings at all (panic only) to olanzapine withdrawal after short course. Unused SA leftover (not CharlieBrown/fkphamah0es/belalugosi/siutk/nic123/despairdude cluster). Live Cloudflare-blocked; quote from search-index OP. Non-Invega.
Duration
Olanzapine ~3 weeks Sep–Oct 2018 then failed CT/reinstatement; BOTH symptoms at Oct 2018 posting during acute WD; later thread pages discuss DP/DR course (recovery timing not fully captured this pass)
Recovery notes
At Oct 2018 OP still in acute empty-head / no-emotions / panic state after failed cold turkey and partial reinstatement. Later thread pages (search-index) mention ongoing DP/DR with some improvement windows; no clear sustained full recovery claim captured this pass.
Source URL
https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/forums/topic/18960-shane88l-anhedoniadepression-from-withdrawing-from-olanzapine-zyprexa/

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