“On day 6 off phenibut I woke up and realized something seemed off, I couldn't feel anxiety anymore but I also couldn't feel any other emotions and my mind was totally blank. Its been almost 13 months since i've been off phenibut and after going cold turkey I suffer from extreme anhedonia,cognitive problems,sexual dysfunction and some insomnia. Over the last 13 months that ive been off phenibut I have noticed my cognitive problems getting better but the anhedonia/emotional numbness is still pretty much the same as it has been since getting off phenibut over a year ago.”
“blank mind/inner monologue - no "drifting off" in thought… no deep emotions… @Michael: totally, I feel like I have no emotions at all… Now my mind is always "silent" and blank, like I've completely d…”
Cause: Severe DP/DR after fighting thoughts/emotions one morning until mind 'disconnected' and went silent (New York). Depress…
View case →“For me when i first got it, i was tired, no DP, no anhedonia, then i got DP, then a year later it changed to anhedonia, then the final stage was blank mind/ no imagination/no emotions… No feelings, e…”
Cause: Progressive depression/DP path: tired → DP → anhedonia → final stage blank mind / no imagination / no emotions. Attribu…
View case →“Emotions were blunted, distant, indistinct… only experiencing 10% of the full emotion… That constantly-flowing river of emotions, internal monologue, subconscious thought, was just gone… where all my…”
Cause: desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) SNRI ~4 months (fall 2013) for social anxiety; 2-week taper; off mid-November 2013; symptoms w…
View case →“my mind is blank all the time, like someone turned off my brain. I just look at things and I can't think… The other symptoms are anhedonia and huuuuge apathy… anhedonia very slowly progressed to this…”
Cause: Onset ~age 15 during stressful period; slow progression of anhedonia then blank mind. Rejects depression/schizophrenia…
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