Table 3.

Antidepressant as cause of emotional blunting as assessed by the ODQ

	Patient agreement^a (%)
	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

^aProportion of patients who selected ‘agree’ or ‘agree a little’ in response to the statement

AD, antidepressant; ODQ, Oxford Depression Questionnaire