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Do others also have severely impacted memory ? I feel like my cognition and memory are blunted just like my emotions.

I sometimes even forget what day it is, what i ate a few hours ago or what I did yesterday or a few days ago. I need to think really hard to get there. It’s like I can’t access my memory because it’s so blocked by my head pressure and blank mind. 

It’s really scary as I always had a very fast, and analytical mind with very detailed memory 😩… 

I barley sweat, have dry and more numb skin, dry eyes, dry mucus membranes and cold / tingly toes.

Anyone who recovered from these type of symptoms?

Also still very blunted, numb, anhedonic and no libido. Everything in my body feels blunted.

8months off fluoxetine which I used only 1,5month.

Hi all,

Are there people here who also don’t feel any emotion anymore? Just completely flatlined all the time? I felt blunting on the medication, that’s why I wanted to come off of it. After stopping I felt okay for 2,5 months, but after that I slowly completely lost all my emotions.

I can’t feel fear or anxiety anymore. Also sadness is not there. Just constantly flatlined. It’s like I am on a heavy mood stabilizer. I feel drugged and can’t wake up. The connections in brain to my emotions are just completely off. All I feel is pressure and fog.

I miss so much out on life. I even start to avoid social stuff because I can’t stand to see normal people with normal emotions and brains. Even the effects of alcohol and caffeine are blunted (avoid it now). I don’t feel human, I feel like a robot. My entire brain feels different and altered.

It’s been already 7,5 months since my last dose and I only took an SSRI for just 7 weeks total last summer 😞…

I can’t believe this has happened to me after such a short amount of time. I was always very sensitive, motivated and emotional. A HSP type of person. I feel like a robotic psychopath and not like myself AT ALL.

I’ve read about PSSD and people suffer from years. I can’t do that… 😔… I also don’t experience any windows or waves in my emotional range.

Other symptoms I deal with;

Severe dry eyes

Dry skin

Reduced sweat and mucus

Head pressure

Injured brain feeling

Numb skin

Low libido

Reduced hunger cues

No drive / dopamine feelings

Brain fog

Parts of brain feel missing

Parts of brain feel like air

Can’t feel sleepy/tired in head

Did your PSSD happen after your very first antidepressant medication, or had you used other serotonic medicationa/drugs prior to developing pssd?

Things like:

• previous antidepressants
• MDMA/ecstasy
• psychedelics
• tramadol
• stimulants
• supplements affecting serotonin, etc.

For me, I got it after I came off fluoxetine which I only used a few weeks last summer. It was my first SSRI, but I have used MDMA/XTC in the past… I took some mdma 4 months prior to starting the SSRI after a 1,5y break from it.

I sometimes wonder if repeated serotonin-related exposure could create some kind of vulnerability or sensitization before the final trigger.

When did it get better ?

7 months off fluoxetine and I am so dry for months now…