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Depersonalisation, lack of emotions etc
Hello,
A few people have been asking about this sort of topic, being numb and not feeling things etc. There's a movie, called "Numb" with Matthew Perry of Friends fame very recent and I thought excellent for most of us to watch.
He goes through a lot of stuff and some of it is exactly what you and I have experienced. Such as saying "I can't describe what I feel unless you've felt it" and "I know what's wrong already! I came to see you to fix it. Now you tell me you can't. So what do you really do? I've tried all the drugs, all the therapies and feel the same. What good are you?"
It's what we think and feel that is in the script and in particular the ending I find very significant to many of us.
Could I suggest you watch it and let me know what you think?
A few people have been asking about this sort of topic, being numb and not feeling things etc. There's a movie, called "Numb" with Matthew Perry of Friends fame very recent and I thought excellent for most of us to watch.
He goes through a lot of stuff and some of it is exactly what you and I have experienced. Such as saying "I can't describe what I feel unless you've felt it" and "I know what's wrong already! I came to see you to fix it. Now you tell me you can't. So what do you really do? I've tried all the drugs, all the therapies and feel the same. What good are you?"
It's what we think and feel that is in the script and in particular the ending I find very significant to many of us.
Could I suggest you watch it and let me know what you think?
and Blackis
just kinda like 'one day the lights just come back on isn't it?'
enjoy the day!
just kinda like 'one day the lights just come back on isn't it?'
enjoy the day!
Hey Opus,
Yeah it's newish, just saw it on cable, I think it's 2007. Nothing like his usual movies although I did of course like him in Friends. But not much else!
The way it turns out I won't say at this stage as I hate knowing the end of a story. Ruins a movie. Should be able to get it at any DVD store etc. Just called "Numb".
To Blackis,
Well said. Exactly so. It's like any part of the depression process as I see it. When we first feel it we are stunned, unable to cope, understand or work it out. But it is just another step in the process and the lack of emotion does lift as we raise in mood, as you did via meds. Of course we can't just say this to people though can we? Like "It'll be OK, just wait and go for treatment". They want answers now and we all try and help them understand but in the end only recovery will actually do that for them.
At least we can tell them it's normal, recoverable and we are here to talk to. Nothing else is more valuable is it? Except a magic wand.
Yeah it's newish, just saw it on cable, I think it's 2007. Nothing like his usual movies although I did of course like him in Friends. But not much else!
The way it turns out I won't say at this stage as I hate knowing the end of a story. Ruins a movie. Should be able to get it at any DVD store etc. Just called "Numb".
To Blackis,
Well said. Exactly so. It's like any part of the depression process as I see it. When we first feel it we are stunned, unable to cope, understand or work it out. But it is just another step in the process and the lack of emotion does lift as we raise in mood, as you did via meds. Of course we can't just say this to people though can we? Like "It'll be OK, just wait and go for treatment". They want answers now and we all try and help them understand but in the end only recovery will actually do that for them.
At least we can tell them it's normal, recoverable and we are here to talk to. Nothing else is more valuable is it? Except a magic wand.
I actually feel that the meds kinda helped me regain my personality that had been so lost in pychotic depression, and delusions.
Because of the medication taking away the paranoia, auditory and visual hallucinations and such, the real me was able to peek out from underneath all that.
My time and attention is not so taken up by obsessing over things that I can actually get back to feeling whats real if that makes any sense.
Because of the medication taking away the paranoia, auditory and visual hallucinations and such, the real me was able to peek out from underneath all that.
My time and attention is not so taken up by obsessing over things that I can actually get back to feeling whats real if that makes any sense.
Is this a new movie or an older on of his?
I would really like to see it....I'm not in any major depression mode anymore however I do feel 'numb' emotionless most of the time...actually probably all the time. I've begun to think its me and i'm just a non emotional person, but that CAN'T BE NORMAL can it?
I would really like to see it....I'm not in any major depression mode anymore however I do feel 'numb' emotionless most of the time...actually probably all the time. I've begun to think its me and i'm just a non emotional person, but that CAN'T BE NORMAL can it?
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