PartialBoth symptoms clearreddit.com/r/CPTSD
313-reddit-1ukujcy-cptsd-blank-mind-emotional-numbness
Open original source ↗“But the worst part is still here, and it's the emptiness. My brain feels blank, like it's shut down and just not working. … There's no thoughts, no interest, no excitement, no curiosity about anything. I'm numb emotionally and cognitively. … In conversations I have nothing to say, and it's not anxiety anymore, there's just genuinely nothing being generated in there.”
- Cause
- r/CPTSD first-person OP u/Aggressive-Slice-179 (post 1ukujcy; same text crossposted 1ukuiav/productivity, 1ulaz5o/AnxietyDepression, etc. — logged once): multifactorial onset after college 2019 — heavy porn since 16, mom severe depression/home stress, unresolved weed panic ~4y prior; MDD+GAD diagnosed but prescribed meds set aside (not attributed to SSRI course in OP). Clear BOTH: blank mind / no thoughts generated + numb emotionally and cognitively. Unused CPTSD BOTH (≠ 1il4v13/306 freeze blank; ≠ 1jda8yt/262). Non-Invega; non-drug-primary.
- Duration
- ~2.5 years actively trying to solve at Jul 2026 post; cognitive/social decline since ~2019 college (~5–7 years total frame in sibling 1qq8z5b)
- Recovery notes
- Social anxiety/rumination improved with exercise, porn/doomscroll quit, diet, omega-3; blank mind + emotional/cognitive numbness persisted as 'worst part still here.' No recovery of blank+numb cluster claimed. Brief coffee/weed windows of aliveness noted. Crossposts same day — not separately logged.