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When mood stabilizers leave you feeling emotionally numb

I've been taking my mood stabilizer for six months and I feel nothing anymore, not sad but not happy either, just this gray flatness that makes me wonder if feeling terrible was better than feeling nothing at all.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The suppression of emotional extremes has eliminated not just suffering but the capacity for joy and meaningful feeling.

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