What is Reduced affect display?
'''Reduced affect displays''' (better known as '''emotional blunting''') is the condition where a person has a reduced [[emotion]]al reaction. People with this condition have problems expressing their feelings. They are unable to do this while they talk about certain problems which normally cause people to express emotions. Expressive [[gesture]]s aren't common. There is also little or no animation in the [[facial expression]]s or the changes for certain people's voices.<ref>{{cite book|title=Schizophrenia: The Clinical Pictures|date=April 2007|publisher=Seminars in Adult Psychiatry|isbn=9781904671442|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6PGzHFuS1xkC&pg=PA167|access-date=September 18, 2021}}</ref> Reduced affect is often the [[symptom]] of [[autism]], [[depression (mental illness)|depression]],<ref>{{cite document|title=The Flat Affects|publisher=WebMD|url=https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/flat-affect|access-date=September 18, 2021}}</ref> [[schizoid personality disorder]], [[schizophrenia]] or even [[post-traumatic stress disorder]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A Mental Status Exam|date=15 October 2012|publisher=The Foundations of Counseling and Psychotherapy|isbn=9781118542101|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uzPjJyai0s4C&pg=PA64|access-date=September 18, 2021}}</ref> It is also often the [[side effect]] of certain [[Drug|drugs]] (these tend to include [[antipsychotic]] or [[antidepressant]] drugs<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Emotional Side Effects for Selective Serotonin Reputake Inhibitors|journal=The Cambridge University Press|date=September 2009|volume=195|issue=3|pages=211–217|doi=10.1192/bjp.bp.108.051110|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/emotional-sideeffects-of-selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors-qualitative-study/88C72E9EA0961CDE777C2FDCDBCE1CA9#|access-date=September 18, 2021|last1=Price|first1=Jonathan|last2=Cole|first2=V.|last3=Goodwin|first3=G. M.|pmid=19721109}}</ref>). Reduced affect is different from [[apathy]] and [[anhedonia]] (these o