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“I've always been an anxious person throughout my life but one thing that bothers me the most about it is I constantly feel like my mind is blank. Like I have nothing to say, and lack general emotion. I've noticed the lack of emotion part more recently but the "blank mind" is something that has always been with me.”
Cause
r/Anxiety first-person OP u/spapadop05 (post egslip): lifelong anxiety; attributes constant blank mind (nothing to say) + lack of general emotion (noticed more recently) to anxiety framing. Unused Anxiety BOTH (≠ CPTSD 313 / DPDR freeze 306). Non-drug-primary; non-Invega.
Duration
blank mind 'always been with me' (lifelong relative to Dec 2019 post); lack of emotion noticed more recently; still both at posting
Recovery notes
Asking if others deal with similar / seeking insights; no recovery claimed.
Source URL
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anxiety/comments/egslip/does_anyone_else_feel_like_their_mind_is_blank/

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