How emotional do you feel day-to-day?

[hfdepression30]

I know most people will probably say "Very. Most of the time.", but I wonder if there are many or any people who feel the same way I do. I have a total numbness and emotional detachment from myself; I never cry and rarely feel strong or heightened emotions regarding myself, my life or my circumstances. The only times I do feel emotions like sadness, happiness, anger etc is when I experience it on behalf of other people. I have a total empathy for others but not for myself.

I feel like my lack of emotion regarding myself is one of the reasons I've struggled to kill myself. I don't have any overwhelming sadness or anger to focus on and push me through in order to succeed. I attempt while feeling totally numb and when SI kicks in that's the only thing I feel.

 

[JustAMatterOfTime]

I never cry either only when my pet died and that was 5 years ago. Only emotions I get are sometimes anger and that's it.

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Eh, I have periods where I am emotional and periods when I'm less emotional. Right now I am back to seeing the emotional pain as just pain, experiencing it in the present moment and watching it eventually cease. I stole this technique from Buddhism and it works for me at this point. This makes it so that I "catch" the pain early, before it becomes so big as to trigger sadness or anger.

So low atm, but knowing myself it'll come back soon enough.

 

[WornOutLife]

I chose very.
My UPS and DOWNS are ridiculous!
I wanted to ctb last Sunday and now I'm quite happy lol.
Nonsense!

 

[Trisolaris]

I feel completely numb to everything.

 

[FuneralCry]

It has been a long time since I felt any sort of emotion. I feel like I live through an fog, I see the world around me but I cannot connect to any of it. In a way I feel like I've already died.

 

[BandAddict]

I would go with somewhat, but I don't really feel "highs". I do feel low-level emotions sometimes, but I can become very emotional fairly quickly.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Overall calm most of the time, and the majority of stressful situations do not bother me. Every now and again, though, an event happens that triggers me in a specific way. The logical side to my personality dissolves; I become submerged in negative emotions, and my body is showered in uncomfortable sensations. It goes from the centre or one side to another very quick.

 

[Aeathelina]

I spend most days going in and out of really feeling anything. Been a long time since I have truly felt some zeal of emotion other than high levels of stress. Just floating through out the day and tired of existing

 

[Fragile]

It's a daily roller coaster, really sucks since I can't have any consistent thought because of the way I feel.

 

[Carrotcake]

It's a bit weird, I am emotional, but only depression related emotional. I can cry about feeling hopeless and desperate. But I can't cry about my grandma being ill. So I feel kinda guilty about that. But I guess it's like I only have space for my own issues, and no emotional room for others (again, selfish asshole).