I can't cry any more!

[KareninsGirl]

Hi all,
Am on 40mg fluoxetine (this is my 8th week) and, as odd as this sounds, I can't cry any more. I still feel upset and like I should cry but the tears just don't come! Is this normal? I'm finding it a bit disconcerting...

Me too. I'm on sertraline and I haven't cried in two years, apart from once when DP was an unmitigated wanker.

I used to well up at the slightest thing, now I'm like yeah that's sweet/ sad/ whatever.

I'm glad in a way as it shows the drug is working, but I look forward to being drug free in the future and just having natural emotions again.

That's exactly it morris: I feel just 'meh' instead of happy/sad etc. I'm normally quite an emotional person who cries or gets elated easily so this is quite strange! Was hoping it was a short term side effect...

I was like this on Fluoxetine, I felt numb for a very long time. It took a lot of getting used to. I have just recently come off the drug after a 7 month weaning process and my feelings are returning. This in itself brings another thing to get used to as I was one fluoxetine for about 2.5 years!
I found it took a long time to get used to the drug, and the dosage.
It really did work for me. I think an awful lot of dealing with the side effects was knowing and understanding that these things were side effects and not a permanent part of my personality.

I had this on Citalopram. I didn't cry for 2 1/2 years. I came off them about 2 months ago and i can cry again. Very weird.

But the advantages of staying on them outweighed the not being able to cry IYKWIM.

Same here on citalopram. Just cutting down now. It is nice to cry again but a bit scary at first. I felt very content on ADs but missed a 'spark' both positive and negative.

I had this on fluoxetine too. Now on a low dose of sertraline and feel relatively normal, with normal emotions.

Fluoxetine, I was a zombie. DD fell in a pond on holday aged 3 years and I stood there and watched DH deal with it without a shred of emotion. That was what made me come off them tbh; it just felt wrong.

Good luck Arcadia, I have come off them at my 2nd attempt but had a major blip last week. Determined to stay strong.

Arcadia I can totally empathise with the scary feeling. I am trying to get used to understanding that these feelings are normal. I also feel feelings a lot more physically if you know what I mean?

Thanks all, it's reassuring to hear others have gone through this too, and that it isn't permanent x