I've been on serious anti-depressants for over 20 years, including a mood stabilizer. For years I cried and cried, then one day about 12 years ago, I decided to not cry anymore. I had it with crying. It wasn't helping me. But what happened after that, was that all my emotions started shutting down. I never cried anymore, but I never laughed or felt any happiness. Life became dull, gray, and hopeless. Six years ago after I had a profound spiritual awakening, things started to loosen up inside of me. Slowly, I found my emotions again, but they were much more positive. I was able to cry again, but it was because I felt compassion or felt deeply inspired by something beautiful. And sure, I did feel genuinely sad by things from time to time, but the sadness didn't take my life over. It passed through. I've felt much more normal, whatever that means. As far as pain goes, I'll never feel normal, but I've come to peace about it. And all this doesn't make things easy, just gives me the the tools to work with life that I didn't have before. God bless you all.

Yes. It seems I can't feel just about anything. My body still reacts normally, but the emotions just don't seem there.

@A MyFibroTeam Member I found that when my drugs were reacting with one another I was constantly crying but as soon as the doctor sorted out dosages and frequencies as well as removing aminotryptaline I was so much better. Now I find I rarely cry even though I'm sad but I was blaming it on the fatigue. I try each day to write one positive thing down and this helps me cope xx

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I can't cry, don't take medications and don't have Sjogrens. I feel almost Spock-like. It's an enigma.

Antidepressants can do that to you!