Is it normal to not care or feel

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I do not feel anger, sadness, happiness, loneliness or any other emotion. I haven't cried in so many years that I can't remember last time.. as a matter of fact I can only remember one time. I have been diagnosed with OCD, PTSD and social anxiety if that has anything to do with it. I bearly have any friends, not because I can't get them, but because I don't want them. The only friends I got is way older then me. As you all might know Norway, Oslo, got bombed and 70-80 kids were killed at Utøya and I was in Oslo at the time, but I didn't cry, I didn't feel sorry for them, I was more interested in the guy who did it, I admired him. My one close friend has told me I don't feel anything, and I cause others pain (mostly online because of the social anxiety disorder) without feeling guilt or sadness. I just want to know if this is normal or should I actully do something about it?
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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago | pl

    I looked up PTHD, and it seems more of not being able to show your emotions father than actually having emotions. Social anxiety can be linked with fear aswell, which is an emotion. The reason why people would say you're emotionless is because, according to what I read about PTHD, you don't show them because you feel as if you don't care about anything.
    You "admire him" this shows you have emotions if you have a positive feeling from the person.

    You also have an anxiety dissorder, so you fear social interaction aswell, which I repeat is an emotion.

    I wouldn't consider online pain as actual pain. People overreact online when someone is trying to make them feel sad, so don't think that even most of the people you think you've caused pain to actually felt pain. I've known quite a few people like you that claim to hurt people online, and then I witnesed them doing it, they only thought they were hurting others, where as the people it was getting it done to them just seemed to be irritated, not saddened.

    To me, I think it's normal. I haven't been diagnosed with any personality or mental dissorder, although it has been suggested by profesionals and others around me I may have a few. Nontheless, I don't believe I have any. I'm someone that doesn't really care about people either. I sometimes fool myself into thinking I do to fit in with certain situations. I have a facination with serial killers, and I couldn't really care much about the victims other than how they were killed. I wouldn't say I like serial killers wither, just interested by them.
    A few close people in my life have died, I didn't cry or feel any negativity from it happening.

    People die everyday, and even knowing that, most people that read this still won't care as much for those people.

    My point is that I think it's normal for our generation to be like this. We're all slowly becoming more distant from eachother, less caring year by year, some are just two steps ahead in the transformation.

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    • DolphinAngel
      11 years ago | pl

      I think it's rare that I say this but I'm exactly like you in this case =P

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    • TheEpicOne
      11 years ago | pl

      Thanks, it helped man. I am familiar with some of the things you say, and I can say "Yeah, me too..". Thanks again for taking the time to write all this just to help me(and others who might feel the same).

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  • REvEnGE
    11 years ago | pl

    Ooo! We have some things in common. I have less feelings and care less about my surroundings. Alaways feeling angry. Don't care about others sorrow. I wasn't like this before. But some family incidents, failing again and again to reach my goal has turned me to this. We have much in common.

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  • Dozis
    11 years ago | pl

    Why should you want to feel anything?

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  • rin
    11 years ago | pl

    The one time you cried what was it over?

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    • TheEpicOne
      11 years ago | pl

      It was in 6th grade when we got into a fight with the older kids, they said lots of mean things, I don't know why I cried. Now I don't care what people says to me, even how horrible it can be, I take it with a fake smile.

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