[xRavenx]

Does anyone here notice that on their medication they cry less than usual or feel numb? Or vice versa where you cry more? Which meds do you notice this on?

I noticed this since being on Lamictal for a while now where I don't get crying spells anymore. I still cry sometimes, but it takes a lot to drive me to that point. Sometimes I wish I didn't feel so numb or detached.....but at least I'm not constantly crying when I'm depressed and trying to hold myself together around others. However, I think I need a good cry at times to release some of my emotions, but I am usually unable to, so it builds up.

[Unrigged64072835]

I've been on so many meds and I just can't cry like I used to. I think the last time was 2009. I haven't cried hard since then.

[Wild Coyote]

I have found the meds do make me a bit more emotionally "numb."
They make me more "numb" in every way.

I feel a good cry is a great release and it's an amazing natural release of emotions!

At the same time, my depression has become more resistant to responding to treatment and I went through a lot of months of crying non-stop, it was very painful. Maybe, just maybe, I was releasing old memories, old emotions which needed releasing. I liked to think something about it was healing.

Now that I am on different meds, I am more numb, emotionally and otherwise. I am not without empathy nor without sadness, just not as sensitive as I was, which feels a bit like relief for now. I have not noticed feeling like crying and not being able to cry. I think I feel like crying much less often, even though I am still quite "unsettled."


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[JustJace2u]

I think I've just become numb. I'm crying on the inside, but nothing is coming out for real.

I can cry and I take a bunch of meds. My tears are silent, however. I don't do sobbing unless someone in my family dies...and that's pretty much done.

Sat in the Denver airport yesterday waiting for flight. Had to find a semi-private area. Tears streaming down my face for 20 minutes. Why? No clue. It's been that way for 15ish years now? Weird.

Oh, when I get angry? I cry. Yup. Lol

[OctobersBlackRose]

Yes,xI notice this too (but I'm also I'm a depressive episode, possibility a agitated depression), and I notice I cry less and just feel numb to things, I experience other emotions though...

[John Primo78]

I think to a certain degree depending on how many meds your taking I think its very possible to get emotional flat.

[Gabyunbound]

Yes, I find it much harder to cry since I've been on meds. Maybe it's the Seroquel because that's what I've taken most consistently and for the longest.

I can only cry regarding death.

I work in healthcare, and many years ago, before dx and meds, I used to regularly be moved by my patients and their suffering. I hate to say it, but I am less so now. With the exception of a young girl who died of cancer with whom I had been working for a long time.

I wish I were more moved. I wish I had more of a sense of wonder of the world around me.

I truly wish I could cry more, but the tears just don't come, even when depressed. It's as if everything is stuck inside somewhere and I can't find it.

[sugahorse1]

I am generally much more numb.

But at certain times even the smallest things can trigger me and I'll be in tears. Quiet tears, just for myself.

[lacerta]

I definatelly don't cry without a real reason like before I was medicated. It happened every day, many times a day. Now I'm often in tears about something bad I hear on TV, watching movie. But it's really hard to reach to the point of good crying it out. I cannot name particular med, I have had so many.

[meekayla]

I was wondering about this just yesterday!
I've been on zoloft (sertraline) for 2 weeks now and I have not cried a single time, when before I was crying at the slightest thing every day. However, I feel a constant pressure behind my eyes and want to cry, I just can't, it's driving me insane. But I don't feel numb at all, quite the opposite, the sertraline is reallly not working for me and has made me feel really really bad, I just can't cry for some reason.

Originally Posted by John Primo78

I think to a certain degree depending on how many meds your taking I think its very possible to get emotional flat.

I have had that flat affect before, it's not good. I'm on six psych meds atm and somehow I'm not flat. Or, I'm so out of it I don't realize I'm flat lol. Truly, I feel clear-headed as long as I'm between episodes.

I feel like I have a bunch of squirrels racing around in my head when hypomanic. Squirrels!!! lol