I do think some medications (or too high of doses/too many meds) have caused me to experience blunted affect. It's been a very long time since I was on Risperdal. I know it was very helpful in curbing my mania and related symptoms. I don't recall being happy happy during that time, for sure.

Nowadays I don't have blunted affected. I haven't been feeling well lately, but I sort of had a bit of a situational cause to my recent downturn. Before that I was fairly chipper. I believe I'm a pretty upbeat kind of gal by nature. But there was a time when I was on so many medications, some at very high doses, when it was just too much. As my psychiatrist slowly weaned me off of some, my quality of life improved. It's not good being overly sedated or cognitively impaired.