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What is ‘Ozempic personality,’ and why does it make life feel ‘meh’?

Doctors and patients across social media are reporting a kind of emotional flattening while on GLP-1 drugs.

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Korrie Stevenson had been feeling off for months. She would look at a gorgeous birthday cake or walk outside to a pink-and-purple streaked sunset, but not really enjoy them. The 51-year-old mother of two had similar feelings about sports, something she had loved since she was a child.

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But it wasn’t depression, she said. Everything was just “meh.”