Dear all,
As a newcomer to this community, I wanted to share how I've been feeling lately. To be honest, it's been quite a mixed bag. The antidepressant I have been taking has left me in a peculiar state where I no longer experience the range of emotions that I used to. It's as if everything has been reduced to a perpetual state of indifference—I don't feel sadness, nor do I feel happiness. At best, everything seems to elicit a "meh" from me.
While the purpose of the medication is to alleviate the symptoms of depression, I've unfortunately been experiencing some unintended consequences. It seems that some of my other emotions have also been muted or altogether absent. Loneliness, for instance, has become a foreign concept, as is, anger, sadness, happiness, any sexuality, any- and everything leaving behind a hollow void w overwhelming sense of boredom.
I have already attempted to stop taking antidepressants, but doing so resulted in severe depression that made it not worthwhile to return to my normal state. Additionally, I switched from SSRIs to SNRIs during a rehabilitation program, but it did not bring about any noticeable change.