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When Medication Creates Emotional Numbness

I have been on antidepressants for two years and they help but I feel like I am living in a fog and I cannot access my actual emotions anymore

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The protective barrier that shields from pain also blocks the full spectrum of human feeling.

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