“Hi all, In 2019 I took fluoxetine for social anxiety for just 5 days before stopping. It was my first time taking any type of psychiatric medication and probably within hours of my very first pill, I experienced the blank mind/cognitive dysfunction symptom. I had no idea what was going on, just that my thoughts completely stopped suddenly. I was initially extremely distressed by this, but in time I was able to recover. I treated it as if it were just anxiety and tried my hardest to continue to live my life and make an effort to spend a lot of time with my girlfriend and friends. I think over the course of about a year, I slowly recovered until my blank mind was completely gone. My thoughts became 100% automatic and easy to hear again and I went back to being able to feel joy properly again. This lasted for 3 entire years until I had something happen in my personal life that caused an extreme amount of stress. This somehow triggered my blank mind again along with anhedonia. Stangely I wasn’t able to feel nicotine anymore when this switch flipped. I tried to treat it as anxiety again and I improved a bit over the course of that following year to a point where I could function well and be mostly content with my life, but I could still tell that I had lingering symptoms that sort of plateued there. Around July of last year I tried shrooms with friends for the first time in like a decade and actually had an amazing time and a lot of fun, but when i woke up the next day my symptoms had gotten significantly worse. My mind was even more blank than before and anhedonia became significantly worse and now i don’t even feel alcohol or anxiety properly. […]”
“Currently on olanzipine but trying to taper off it, my mind is blank, I have no thoughts no emotions I don't know what to say to people I'm constantly zoned out. I can't remember anything short term…”
Cause: Olanzapine (Zyprexa), forced on in hospital, 17.5 mg/day for nearly a year (sertraline added after reporting feeling nu…
View case →“Trigger warning; bad experience Fluoxetine has completely altered my brain chemistry and erased my emotions. I took it for little less than 2 months. I did not like the blunting effect so I came off…”
Cause: Reddit r/prozac first-person OP u/Philosophical-noob97 (same person also posted r/antidepressants 1rhtx6o and r/Anxiety…
View case →“Its driving me nuts...to have completely blank mind all the time. Its like my brain is not working anymore after all this medications i had., Zyprexa, loqueen, seroquel, Abilify Maintena, Vraylar. I…”
Cause: Antipsychotics: Xeplion/Invega (paliperidone) injections for 9 months, then Abilify Maintena; she also lists Zyprexa, L…
View case →“I’ve been on it for 2 months. First month of 9mg oral and now I’m taking 3mg oral for about another month. * Blank mind - feeling like you have no thoughts * auditory issues - can’t block out noise,…”
Cause: Reddit r/Antipsychiatry first-person OP u/Smart_Literature2003: paliperidone oral 9 mg first month then 3 mg ~second mo…
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