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Open original source ↗“I’ve been taking accutane for 5 months now and recently I noticed this thing where I cannot focus on anything. I fall out of conversations and cannot keep up with them when I’m around my friends. My memory is also undergoing some weird changes. My thought process just feels nonexistent at this point. I also feel extremely numb about everything, not caring about anything. I was wondering if anyone else had this? And how did you cope with that. It’s really annoying when my friends and I are chatting and I seem to not think anything, like my head is empty. I feel like I lost my emotions or something. I feel like I’m just a sim lmao, not having anything as in thought process or something. I feel like I’m not here.”
- Cause
- r/Accutane first-person u/minara13 (18 Nov 2021): on Accutane/isotretinoin ~5 months. Attributes nonexistent thought process / empty head (no thoughts in conversation) + extremely numb / lost emotions / sim-like to ongoing Accutane. Unused Accutane BOTH (≠ acne.org hideandseak 78 / colinboko 100 / propeciahelp devolution 109). Non-Invega.
- Duration
- On Accutane ~5 months at Nov 2021 post; blank+numb described as recent onset during course; later outcome unknown
- Recovery notes
- No recovery claimed. Asking how others cope. Indexed replies: one said similar symptoms can be depression and urged involving psychiatrist/derm; another commenter on month 2 said temporarily stopping and immersing in shows/reading. No OP follow-up verified this pass. Enriched from arctic-shift full OP selftext (2026-09-13). Live Reddit post deleted by user as of 2026-09-13 enrichment (Accutane qwlk3d); full OP selftext retained from arctic-shift archive.