uhhggg, I go numb, but not from meds. I dont take meds. I shut down towards life and people, grow cold and it is really difficult. I feel for you, I hate when it happens and if i could blame it on meds, I would talk to my doc...

I've been on meds that made me an emotional zombie,or a wreck. Some I have been a hair trigger and the wife and I seperated so we could stay together. Watch the antidepressants. They say they can be bad for us. That's from the medical associations. Research it out and taalk to your docs. Iwrote my own scrip and my doc has helped fine tune it.
Good Luck

A therapist I saw for a number of years taught me that our emotions are not mutually exclusive. If you toss up a coin with love on one side and hate on the other side, when the coin lands you are either going to see love or you are going to see hate. You can't see both of them at the same time~~it is an either or situation.

Instead our emotions are collectively exhaustive--not unlike the idea of being bipolar with mania on one end of the spectrum and depression on the other~~hate represents one extreme and love represents the other extreme~~our emotions are collectively exhaustive~~love and hate are collectively exhaustive because they contain between them all of the possible feelings that can occur within our range of emotions.

In other words, there are two choices~~we can choose to feel or we can choose to be numb. Medication can definitely be a determining factor in whether we feel or not. I do not believe that medication can determine what we feel~~I believe the goal of medication is to help us move fluidly through our range of emotions so that we can feel sad when something sad happens and so that we can feel love and/or happiness when life brings it our way.

If you are not capable of feeling anything, if you are numb then you probably ought to talk to your pdoc about your dosage of the new medication.

Hang in there . . .

Antipsychotics turn off your brain. Depletes the ability to love. I share your experience. Try different meds. Just keep trying.

When I started my antipsychotic, it did produce a "numb" feeling within me ..... I used to aliken it to fizzy cola gone flat.

It did improve much over time, at least 2-3 weeks or so.

Maybe you need more time. Not sure how long you've been on it for though. Could also be dosage related. Higher doses (when I was on 600mg of Seroquel) kind of deadend things for me somewhat.

hope as you progress and get better slowly may ween you of antipychoctic our moods change alot but we need to try and manage them best we can so please always talk openly to doc on how your feeling so meds can be ajusted good luck and best wishes on your journey. ive also had blank no emotions feeling but was weened to lower does of zeprexa and hey felt like i started to wake up. its hard when they wont give any thing to lift your mood more makes you feel stuck but hey im trying can understand there reason they dont want me manic. happy thougts and happy days kev

My pdoc had recommended Lamictal
and my companion researced it and spoke w phramist. My common was against my takeing this med because it would make me feel num.
mentally I would continue to know that I love and care about those in my life but adventually I wouldn't f e e l such natural emotions. Whats weird is that I can still feel pain but I dont give though to such incidents and most of time even painful thing s just roll off my back like water on ducks back.
My companion was and is right about lamictal.
If I think about a bad memory - ya I might shed 2 to 5 tears and that be about it.
Lamictal is a mood stablizer and boy does it ever.
Speak w pharmist about your meds. Sorta sorry but I talk w pharmist about my meds.
My pdoc, MD, Gyn are nor trained and skilled pharm's. most Dr's only know whats in med pamplet that comes w meds and which meds that they get a higher % rate for peddleing - pushing.
Just know that your not alone,k

ive been on invega,lamictal and wellbutrin, for the last month or 2, and over time slowly I began to feel completely numb to my friends, my life, job and worst of all, my boyfriend of 7 months, who I know deep down I am in love with, But im stricken by guilt and panic attacks because im so confused if its the medicine or just me. I dont want to throw something so wonderful away because Im unhealthy right now. In conclusion, I am almost 98 percent sure the medicines make us feel this way. The difficult part is trying to decide which medicine is helping and which is causing the turmoil.

it's the meds...sympathy.

You need to look into lowering to dosage, IMHO. Being medicated should make you feel normal again, not emotionless.

I feel like that not on meds. I generally react by eliciting the response I think people expect in whatever situation I may be in i.e. laughter if people are laughing ec

I'm sure half the time it comes across as disingenuous, rather than being seen as simply lacking in knowing how to respond.

but yip meds do make things even more numb.