Blankedonia Databaseblank mind · numb emotions
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“My head feels empty. My mind is totally blank. No spontaneous thoughts or imagery pop into my head anymore. … I have no internal monologue and feel like an NPC. Minimal emotions, flat affect, and anhedonia.”
Cause
r/Psychosis first-person OP u/weab00 (post ynqaez): head empty / mind totally blank / no spontaneous thoughts or imagery / no internal monologue + minimal emotions, flat affect, and anhedonia; feels like NPC; dropping out of college. Cause not named in OP (psychosis-sub framing; no drug named). Unused Psychosis BOTH (≠ 14kur56/267, 9z96uc/224, 1sb70ba/226). Non-Invega.
Duration
Not dated beyond ongoing at 6 Nov 2022 post; chronic enough to drop out of college
Recovery notes
No recovery claimed; chronic laziness/procrastination + blank+anhedonia blocking goals. Selftext via arctic-shift.
Source URL
https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychosis/comments/ynqaez/feeling_lobotomized/

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