The drug that turns off your emotions are SSRI and SNRI antidepressants like Cymbalta, Lexapro and Zoloft.
These drugs which include Zoloft, Lexapro and Cymbalta and other SSRI and SNRI antidepressants can dampen both negative emotions and positive emotions.
Other drugs that can turn off your emotions are antipsychotic medications like Risperdal and even beta blockers and acetaminophen.
Hormonal birth control can also turn off your emotions.
When the drugs turn off your emotions it's also known as emotional blunting.
Emotional blunting is an often medication induced mental health condition that is characterized by a reduced ability to feel or express both negative emotions and positive emotions, which result in a state of feeling flat, numb or even detached.
Symptoms of emotional blunting are fatigue, lack of empathy, indifference and even diminished responsiveness, which can significantly affect your relationships as well as your daily life.
The emotional numbness with emotional blunting causes you to have an inability to feel high or low, like not feeling joy or feeling sad.
Other symptoms of the emotional numbness are reduced affect display in which you have limited facial expressions or vocal inflection "flat affect".
And difficulty connecting with others feelings and a loss of interest in activities that you previously enjoyed or even a loss of interest in your own life.
Mental fog, fatigue, low motivation and memory issues as well as difficulty in maintaining or forming social connections are also common in emotional blunting.
Common causes of emotional blunting are being on antidepressant medications as emotional blunting is a common side effect of taking SNRIs and SSRIs, and affects between 33 percent to 75 percent of people taking these antidepressant medications.
Even mental health conditions like Major Depressive Disorder, Schizophrenia and Post Traumatic Stress disorder as well as trauma and substance use like drug or alcohol use can cause emotional blunting.
Management for emotional blunting involves adjusting your medication dosages with a doctor, therapy and lifestyle changes including exercise and improved sleep.