Is it normal to not feel emotions?

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For about 2 years now, I've noticed that I really don't feel anything. I'm able to understand other peoples emotions and even where they come from but I am not able to feel the emotions myself. It's the same thing with my family. I know I'm supposed to love them, but I can't find the emotion in me. I don't care about most of my friends. I just find myself not caring. Is this normal?

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Based on 71 votes (40 yes)
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  • youmightberight
    13 years ago

    Either you have depression or you're sick. People who have depression don't feel emotions. Maybe something terrible happened to you? Or maybe you're afraid of emotions (e.g. you don't want to get hurt) and you hide them.

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  • Sh33pzilla
    13 years ago

    Amusing to see OP disproving his own post by being sensitive to comments.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      Agreed.

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  • TheGasManCometh
    13 years ago

    Fight! Fight! FIGHT!

    Btw I think it's normal - to go through unfeeling phases like that. Just fake it till you make it.

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  • Faitafull
    13 years ago

    No freakin way!! I swear those are my words and not yours. I try to make the effort to hangout with friends but most of the time I dont really care to, It takes to much energy to act like I'm haveing fun. And I feel the same way about my parents as you do.Normalish.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    I don't know if its normal or not. But im like this too.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      I would also like to say to you that you also must be going a phase because recently you posted a story saying "how you hate it when" last I remember "hate" is an emotion.

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      • [Old Memory]
        13 years ago

        You're confusing me with somebody else, in none of my stories I talk about hating anything. Check yourself.

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        • [Old Memory]
          13 years ago

          No I am not mistaken, I click on your name and it shows a story you made titled "IIN I get angry when".

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        • [Old Memory]
          13 years ago

          Oh Im confusing you with someone else? ah how cute. I like how you tried to delete it without anyone noticing. Unfortunatly for you I noticed and made a screen shot of it where it clearly shows you made that story because I knew you would make a move like that. You are a wannabe you want to try pretend you dont have emotions, Funny thing is if you just kept the story up and said "well what I ment was I get irritated by the subject and got mixed up between the two concepts" then I could of taken that as a reasonable excuse but the fact that you deleted it completely shows you are trying to hide the fact that your a wannabe. Grow up you will never be emotonless and you will never know how it feels. Stop trying to convince the people who really feel that way because they will be able to recognise a faker from someone who is actualy the same very easily just like I found you out to be a fake and a wannabe.

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  • EMINEM007
    11 years ago

    Same here Stop smoking.

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  • ......
    12 years ago

    Tiped*, btw don't waster ur time itduz,it's not worth it,humans are stubborn,and cannot accept anything differing from their own ideas

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  • ......
    12 years ago

    Wow itduz,even if it was a fake post,u tipped like masses of text,that would of took me longer than 4 mins. (just me,nothing personal)

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  • Sevenseals
    13 years ago

    Oh, I almost forgot. Maybe it's because I had a f*cked up childhood. My father was an alcoholic and a choleric person (not the best combination)and he would beat the sh*t out of my mother on a daily basis and make me and my siter watch. But that's just an assumption though. *beware of the last Sentence. It was sarcasm*

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  • Sevenseals
    13 years ago

    I feel the same way you do but I haven't always been like that. My family keeps telling me I used to be such a happy kid when I was little but I can't remember any of it. As far as I can remember I've always kept my distance towards other people because I could never bond with them. I forced myself (or maybe society did) to become friends with at least one person to be considered normal. I know what kind of emotion I should actually feel but I just can't find it in my heart. No matter how hard I try I just can't start to care. Sometimes I imagine beeing alone without any friends but that doesn't scare me, I'm not even sad. It's just nothing, the only thing I feel is emptyness. I guess I'm nothing more than a burden but there's nothing I can do about it.

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  • whatsfordinner62
    13 years ago

    Although at the same time itduz is wasting his time researching on this one guy.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      What do you mean researching? all I done was do one click of the mouse then reply to her how is that research?

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      • chewy
        12 years ago

        shut up you are not cool

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        • [Old Memory]
          12 years ago

          I never once said I was, I actualy do now notice that your age does go with your attitude.

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          • chewy
            12 years ago

            i posted that like before we even talked on the IIN chat

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    @ItzDuz Hahah, listen old man, I really do appriciate the attention you're giving me right now. A screen shot, really? Ha. Who are you going to show it to, Obama? Thank you for taking some time out and examine me like that, I really do appriciate it. It seems like you really care about what I do and what I have to say. You don't even know me, you know nothing about me. You must go through a lot of trouble and wasting time proving yourself "right" to other people. Go take your anger on someone else. I can do whatever I want, and be whoever I want. I don't care about how you feel, I don't care what your opinion is. It seems to me like you don't express yourself very often, go try it, its worth it. Oh and btw hop off my dick ;)

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      Hmm old man? you refer to 18 year olds as "old men"? Its funny you were in such a calm manner until I showed you out to be a wannabe. Im angry? nope I just have a disslike for people trying to be things they arent just to be seen as cool, aspecially when its online I mean how pathetic can you be trying to make yourself look like your something your not online. Who am I going to show it too? no one I just keep it in my corner to prove you wrong in this little discussion. For someone who is supposibly "emotionless" you do seem to have a very emotional personality as clearly demonstrated by yourself. I know enough about you and I couldnt care at all about the parts that have nothing to do with me or parts that I couldnt care less about to involve myself in. The attention im giving you right now? if you call 4 minutes alot of time spent on you then you obviously dont have much people trying to spend time on you if you consider 4 minutes to be such a long length of attention. Care about what you do? nope I just come on here to pass the time and like to test users like you to see if you have what it takes to win a discussion with me (which you clearly dont). All I want to know about you is what has to be known about the discussion we are talking about and I already know more than enough thanks to your last comment. Proving myself right on here is actualy pretty easy and doesnt take up much of my time I usualy say my part and then sit back and let them do the rest for me for example you were completely unaware that a huge part of my last comment was to get a reaction out of you to see how you would react based on "emotionless" or "emotional" replies and like a moth to a flame you fell for it proving me right, why try to prove im right when I can get you to do it for me? I am not angry at you infact I find it quite pitying when you have been obviously found out you have no pride and completely lower your stance to that of an upset 16 year old. Touching speech but no you cant do what ever you want and you cant be who ever you want. Il tell you why, You wanted to be seen as emotionless I proved you wrong showing that it is impossible for you to be that way. You want to be an emotionless person and I showed you that you cant be, so really I hit two birds with one stone. Wow am I suppost to be upset that you dont feel for my opinion? if so why where you so calm until I proved you werent emotionless? if you try to cover up your actions and words please atleast attempt to do it properly. I express my opinions enough on this site just in this case it happens to be fact.

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      • [Old Memory]
        13 years ago

        I would just like to add that your whole plan to make me feel somewhat upset or insulted has failed, I dont get insulted or feel upset so that whole part kind of failed. I would just like to add how humerous I find it that through that whole comment you act with a "I dont care" attitude, so you make a paragraph about how much you dont care? that makes perfect sense doesnt it. I just have to say you have been one of the easiest people to uncover lies from and your sarcasm is your attempt to try recover some left pride and to try feel in control of the discussion even though the same exact comment just proves me right. I think your just upset that your not as good at lying as you think you are.

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        • [Old Memory]
          13 years ago

          I'm not wasting my time talking to you, your opinion doesn't count. I really don't care. I can be whoever I want and do whatever I want, you are nobody to tell me I can't. I just got a reaction out of you baby, writting a good essay about me <3 I'll make sure I save that ;)

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          • [Old Memory]
            13 years ago

            Yes you got a "reaction" from me the same "reaction" I give most people -sigh- dont try and do what I done to you because you just cant do it. You cant be who ever you want or be what ever you want I clearly demonstrated that your just too foolish to realise. I still find it interesting how "you got a reaction out of me". There is a differnt between a reaction and a reply. I replied to you. If I completely changed my stance and only started spewing sarcasm like you did then you would of gotten a reaction from me. -sigh- yes ok please go I have a feeling you have no idea how easily manipulated you were and in that same sense you tried saying you done the same to me when all I done was reply to you giving you a full explanation which I do to most people. So no you didnt get a reation from me you got a long reply. Lol I guess it is an obvious fact that what you just said their was because you had absolutly nothing you could say back to me other than repeating yourself and attempting to do what I done to you (in which case you failed terrible at doing so).

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