Table 3 Antidepressant as cause of emotional blunting as assessed by the ODQ
From: Emotional blunting in patients with depression. Part I: clinical characteristics
Patient agreementa (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
All patients (N = 752) | Acute (n = 300) | Remission (n = 452) | |
The AD is preventing me from feeling my emotions in some way | 45 | 46 | 44 |
The AD seems to make me just not care about things that should matter to me | 40 | 40 | 40 |
The AD seems to make me feel emotionally disconnected from people around me | 42 | 45 | 40 |
The AD is preventing me from feeling pleasant emotions | 34 | 35 | 33 |
The AD changes the way that I experience my emotions in a way that is unhelpful (not helpful) to me at the moment | 33 | 35 | 32 |
I have considered stopping (or have already stopped) my antidepressant because of its emotional side effects | 39 | 39 | 40 |