It means you are emotionless and boring! I've been like this for several years now but it beats being in a hospital or thrown in jail! Started taking vit.d3 and it's helping lift the lifelessness a little.

Just kidding around about the boring part. I do find it hard to cry or laugh or show any excitement.

What does it mean when people tell you that you are flat?

It means they are rude and nosy. It's just a label like so many others. I have been told I am flat, overreacting, underreacting, loud, too quiet, hyper, inappropriate, etc.

And it's true. I am all of those things and I love them everyone. If someone has a problem with that I usually suggest they go take a break and work on themselves for awhile. Or, overreact.

The only way I see "flat" as a negative is if YOU are unhappy with it.

Hi rap, I usually experience "flat affect" when I am taking certain meds. I feel numb and unable to "respond or react" to any stimuli around me. When I might normally laugh, I have no emotional response, just numb. The same reaction with something that might be upsetting around me.

Another reason that some people may see others as "flat" is if they are not over-reactors. Maybe the person questioning your affect is actually emotionally over-reactive so they see you as flat. Either way, I agree that you cannot let what others think they see be upsetting to you. If you are uncomfortable with the way you feel or see yourself, then talk to your pdoc about it, it may be caused by meds. xo

I have felt flat and unemotional for years but stable. The pdoc said she wanted to work on that and get me where I enjoy life more. So she took me off Risperdal and put me on Abilify. Didn't sleep for eight days. She took me off Abilify and put me on Latuda. I've only been on it two days so to early to tell. I finally started sleeping again.So that made me feel better. I will see if it picks me up or not. Hope it helps without sending me in to a manic episode.

I was flat till I went fluffy. :-)

I'm not flat, I'm rotund. :-)

If flat means unemotional, no human being is flat. We are all three dimensional. I may feel unemotional right now, but if I look inside, I'm a little depressed, a little scared, more than a little angry and very lonely. I may appear unemotional to others at times, but that is self protection.

Whenever I am getting depressed, my psychologist always asks me what is going on and tells me my "affect is flat". I take that to mean that I show no emotion, as though I just don't care about anything. When I think back on those times, it generally was depression creeping in. But, boring? No, I don't think so. And even if you were, if you are ok with you then who cares what anyone else thinks!!

I take Depakote.

It has totally blunted and flattened my emotions.

Even my voice has been affected. Speaking in a monotone , I sound really flat.

I feel like I sound boring, but friends and family say I am still funny, and make them laugh...... I don't see that in myself at all.

Well, I do think that I have gotten boring in my old age, but I do think that there are times when I am not flat.

The psychiatrist anectodally said "Perhaps you might have a touch of Asperger's." Im like "Really dude?".

I do feel flat, though, I really do. Our house is in foreclosure for one, and for another my brian ain't workin' right, so I have the right to act flat, as far as taht dagnab psychiatrist goes.

Thanks for posting you all.