Unable to feel any emotions

[ButterflyWings]

Sometimes I dissociate to the point where I am unable to feel any emotions or care for others.

When this happens, it feels as though somebody else is controlling my brain - and it has caused so many issues in my life.

For example, I have been on and off with somebody for a year, and I have messed it up so many times due to this.

This probably sounds dumb, but when it occurs, I suddenly don't feel anything towards them and wouldn't care if something happened to them - even though a day earlier I would do anything for them/wanted to spend my life with them.

On their end, they probably think i'm heartless, but I have no control over it.

Similar situations have happened with family members too.

Please tell me this is common...?

 

[Un-]

It's not "sometimes" for me. The longer you live with a fucked up head, the more apathetic you get. Is there a cure? Probably. You probably want to find one before you start thinking about the benefits of apathy, and stuff. Once that happens, there's little to no chance of coming back.

 

[MentalStefan]

I've felt this before so I understand that being emotionless is unbearable.
I've felt this when I was given lithium in psych ward. Basically this drug makes you feel numb and emotionless. I just felt nothing all the time. Like a robot or puppet. It was so fucked up. I hated it.

 

[FuneralCry]

I do not know how common this is, but I'm sorry that you have to endure this. To me it is terrifying how our thoughts can torture us and that there is no limit as to how bad things can get. Existence really is so horrifying. I hope that in whatever happens, you find relief from what you are going through.

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

Sometimes emotion peeks through and it's incredibly painful…. Seems like it's the bodys way of defending against Pain…

 

[outrider567]

Sometimes I dissociate to the point where I am unable to feel any emotions or care for others.

When this happens, it feels as though somebody else is controlling my brain - and it has caused so many issues in my life.

For example, I have been on and off with somebody for a year, and I have messed it up so many times due to this.

This probably sounds dumb, but when it occurs, I suddenly don't feel anything towards them and wouldn't care if something happened to them - even though a day earlier I would do anything for them/wanted to spend my life with them.

On their end, they probably think i'm heartless, but I have no control over it.

Similar situations have happened with family members too.

Please tell me this is common...?

Agree, with my depression this year, I feel less empathy for others(except for my fellow sufferers here)generally speaking

 

[312]

I've also been going through the same situation for a few years, I always think that this lack of emotion will pass, but the situation never changes and it seems like a vicious cycle, where I've been trying to feel something for years but it seems like I've been drugged. The only pure feeling I can feel for a long time is sadness.

 

[OpheliasFlowers]

I feel the same. And I used to be called "overly emotional" for most of my life, which is so weird for me to think about in comparison to how I am now. The pendulum really swung the other direction for me after years of depression and anxiety and isolation, from feeling too much emotion to feeling scarcely anything. Although like others mentioned above, sometimes a brief spark or moment of feeling will break through, but mostly that feeling is profound sadness or fear although there have been one or two times in dreams where I've felt wonderful happiness but all that does is illustrate to me what a stark contrast my daily life is (i.e. the apathy and lack of feeling or caring about for others in my real life). I think my mind finally put up walls that I'll never break down now to protect itself after years of so much pain and being hurt. Being a living, (mostly) unfeeling, uncaring zombie is awful too, though. I wish I was normal.

I'm so sorry OP, that you and everyone else on this thread, experiences this inability to feel -- to feel happy and good.

 

[MountainMonkey]

I feel dead inside. I lack emotion, even towards the person that loves me. I'm simply waiting for the opportunity to relieve my soul from my body

 

[juraviel]

i have no feelings whatsoever including the feeling of wanting, intending, believing, understanding, even pain/pleasure itself. things people dont even consider emotions. seems like theres no cure, it's not even a recognized condition, nothing works.