What to do after losing almost all care for others? (loss of humanity?)

[HappiestAngel]

My apathy has continuously gotten worse for all of my life and recently it's gotten to a point where i cannot care about others anymore. A while ago I was with family and that was nice but now that I'm home again i don't think about them at all. It's not like I have a busy life or anything either, my mind just feels empty. I used to have close contact with friends from highschool. Used to talk to them almost everyday online and we'd meet up every month or so. But 6 months ago smth suddenly changed. I felt so empty and while being around those friends and family i was just pretending. I suddenly got no joy from doing anything with them anymore, and i honestly didn't care about anything they had to say. idk why i suddenly became like this but I suppose i have always been getting worse.
i have slowly lost contact with friends and family has been a lot less too. When my grandma died a month ago i felt nothing. I was very close to her, the first several years of my childhood we lived with her and after my family moved out we'd still see her at least once a week ussually more. i dont know what is wrong with me. Is this just a symptom of depression or if its something worse. I don't miss people anymore but i miss missing them I guess. I miss that feeling I used to have, where I'd wonder how someone was doing and care about what they had to say. Now I just pretend. And I'm honestly growing tired of it. I don't feel human anymore.

Anyone else dealt with anything similar? Is there a point to life if you can't care about other people?

 

[fairytale]

Yes, I've lived like this my whole life. There hasn't been a moment when I became like this. It's probably harder for you because you're not used to it. I spend a lot of time with people, but I don't care about them, I go for walks, exercise, read books, work, play video games. I can't cry at a friend's funeral, but I can give such a touching speech that everyone else will cry.
There are many things in the world besides caring for others. Your value is not equal to your usefulness to other people.

 

[lamy's sacred sleep]

My apathy has continuously gotten worse for all of my life and recently it's gotten to a point where i cannot care about others anymore. A while ago I was with family and that was nice but now that I'm home again i don't think about them at all. It's not like I have a busy life or anything either, my mind just feels empty. I used to have close contact with friends from highschool. Used to talk to them almost everyday online and we'd meet up every month or so. But 6 months ago smth suddenly changed. I felt so empty and while being around those friends and family i was just pretending. I suddenly got no joy from doing anything with them anymore, and i honestly didn't care about anything they had to say. idk why i suddenly became like this but I suppose i have always been getting worse.
i have slowly lost contact with friends and family has been a lot less too. When my grandma died a month ago i felt nothing. I was very close to her, the first several years of my childhood we lived with her and after my family moved out we'd still see her at least once a week ussually more. i dont know what is wrong with me. Is this just a symptom of depression or if its something worse. I don't miss people anymore but i miss missing them I guess. I miss that feeling I used to have, where I'd wonder how someone was doing and care about what they had to say. Now I just pretend. And I'm honestly growing tired of it. I don't feel human anymore.

Anyone else dealt with anything similar? Is there a point to life if you can't care about other people?

I'm dealing with this right now, to a lesser extent.

 

[Aplev]

It's very sad. But apparently unavoidable.

 

[WhiskeySolstice]

i dont know what is wrong with me. Is this just a symptom of depression or if its something worse. I don't miss people anymore but i miss missing them I guess. I miss that feeling I used to have, where I'd wonder how someone was doing and care about what they had to say. Now I just pretend. And I'm honestly growing tired of it. I don't feel human anymore.

Anyone else dealt with anything similar? Is there a point to life if you can't care about other people?

I often feel like this, it comes in waves. Most of the time I'm lucky enough to care to some extent, but often times I feel so… not there? They all feel so emotionally far away from me. I feel like we're all strangers? As for whether or not it's a symptom of your depression, I'm no psychologist - but I'd say it's likely

 

[getoutgirl]

Yeah. Just yeah.
For the past year I've been ghosting all my friends, avoiding family events with excuses and generally isolating. The few times I've hung out with people it has been so awkward and depressing of an experience, silently faking smiles while inside being reminded that "oh yeah, this is why I was packing my things..."
I feel empty, robotic, inhuman, mostly souless and that I'm being a shitty person to everyone for not caring for them, but at least I am less of a burden and a pain by staying away. Some days I do feel profound care and concern, some humanity pokes out, but these are increasingly few and I am terrified that one day I'll completely lose all empathy. Because then there is Nothing keeping me from ending things.

So yep. If you ask me, yeah these are common syntoms of sucidal depression. Get professional help If you already haven't. It may help before things get to that no empathy point. It can be prevented, and it is also an anguishing experience and I'm truly sorry you are going through it.
Take care <3

 

[pauly369]

I feel like this too.
The Doctors told me that its a condition called ANHEDONIA.
Its a loss of pleasure in anything you used to enjoy and you just feel dead inside.
It apparently comes on after dealing with things like depression for a long time.
Your brain chemistry changes and you basically lose interest in everything, even caring about others.
You probably still care deep down, yet your brain feels like it cant produce the energy and chemicals that make you feel empathy etc.