Emotional blunting is common in depression and bipolar disorder, even after symptoms ease
www.psypost.org
Recovering from depression doesn’t always mean feeling things fully again. In a study of 106 patients on antidepressants, emotional blunting was less common among patients in remission but still affected 45% of them.

I read this article after being posted in “the other place”, within the comments there was this very insightful and thought provoking comment. I will post it in the comments, I thought it was worthy of us all.

  • digdig@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    As someone who suffers greatly with their mental health, this comment gave me some hope to start again.

    I am quite old now, more than 50 and yet this comment gave me hope by understanding my condition and a possible yet difficult remedy.

    I renewed a friendship today, it’s a start.

      • digdig@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Thank you for replying, away for 3 months

        I’m very introverted/introspective but I do like company.

        We met up today and had coffee.

        We had so much to talk about together.

        It was like old times.

        Thank you for asking.

        Gonna push myself to something extravagant next week (guitar jam)

          • digdig@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            5·
            2 days ago

            I’m a solid guitarist who loves chords and rhythm.

            I’ll do anything. But I get very bored in a raeggae band. (I’m just doing up beats and no melody)

            Although, I am conditioned by my age and background.

            Which is 50+ and white english/irish.

            Currently: I like, prog rock like Steven Wilson and porcupine tree.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPZ8Xy1hO9s&list=RDRPZ8Xy1hO9s&start_radio=1&pp=ygUNc3RldmVuIHdpbHNvbqAHAQ%3D%3D

            This was the last song I enjoyed.

            I love a tight well done pop song. So many to talk about and forget.

            The Police where a thing for me when I was growing up. The raw era, regatta de blanc (was more about the drummer for me then, still is) It’s a hihat thing.

            All of the grunge, mainly nirvana, alice in chains, pearljam

            Black hole sun didn’t make a whole band interesting, was just brilliant.

            before that period, my friends (the cool people) where older so it was pink floyd, the specials, jam, led zep, Bowie and more.

            It’s countless the number of bands I’ve heard live.

            I had a Jazz perioid, learnt me some new inverseions of the same stuff and some cruel turnarounds.

            I played in a church choir as a child, they ruined the blues and country out of me.

            They made that musical structure PTSD.

            For some reason, you can only get the blues out of me when a deviant harmonica player takes his favourite harp out. Then I will play like I’m born in the swamps of mississippi.

            Sus something and no resolution from now on.

            There are no plagal endings.

            Damn the theory.