snowathlete
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A blunted or "flat" affect is associated with ME/CFS and is defined as a lack of emotional expressiveness. This is not the same thing as suppression! Just because my emotions can't be easily read on my face doesn't mean that I'm suppressing them. Suppression is an effort to hide emotion, whereas having a blunted or flat affect takes no effort at all.
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I'd have thought that lack of emotional expressiveness is far more likely to occur in a doctors office where the focus of conversation is on your disability.
Also, as we have a lack of energy it would also be expected as making expressions costs energy, so you either avoid it, or do it to a lesser degree. Doesn't equal not having those emotions though.