Is it normal to not understand my feelings or needs

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I honestly do not know what is wrong with me. I am a young woman and I should be in my prime. But I feel like I have peeked in life and have never felt whole. I have friends, play sports, have a dog, a career, an amazing boyfriend. I thought those are the things that are supposed to make you feel full. I am constantly searching for something more. I feel very alone, like my world with crash down around me at any moment. Maybe I will lose my job or maybe my boyfriend will tell me he doesn't love me anymore. I feel powerless as to what will happen next. It's like the second I am alone my mind goes insane and I think I have some kind of Mental issue then when I am with my boyfriend or friends boom I feel great. Am I depressed? Wouldn't I know if I was? Is it normal to feel like this?

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  • Anonymous200
    8 years ago

    Clinical depression, see a doctor.

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  • NathanScot
    8 years ago

    Completely normal. Though u might want to look inside urself to find happiness rather than premise it on ur bf and friends.What happens when they leave? Be happy and content with ur own company first....then enjoy that of others.

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  • qualityaristocrat
    8 years ago

    Modern society breeds degeneracy.

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    • Steve2.0
      8 years ago

      Of course it does. Blame everything on the "modern world" and let's go back to the Middle Ages and burn people alive for saying something intelligent.

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  • erik9631
    8 years ago

    It is normal.

    Life is not all about sex, pets, job, money, property. It never was and people who think so are simply ignorant and selfish.

    Life is all about you. Finding yourself, and looking for who you really are.

    Understanding yourself and discovering yourself is one of the hardest things and a lot of people simply tend to ignore it and get soaken up by todays society. That is why you see so many drug addicts, alcoholics and who knows what in the streets.

    The most important thing is you and you should never let anything to interfere with it.

    You are scared that your boyfriend will leave you? Make up a scenario in your head. Try to detach a little and try to imagine a life without him. Then you will realize "This ain't that bad". Keep a distance between things that you feel can hurt you and have some sort of barrier around yourself, one that always protects you.

    It is a long road and I have been practicing this for long years. But nothing can hurt me anymore.

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    • Steve2.0
      8 years ago

      Damn, you sound like the self help podcasts I go to sleep listening to.

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  • thegypsysailor
    8 years ago

    There's nothing normal about having everything going well and dreading doom. It may mean you aren't as happy as you think you are.
    I'd look closely at my life and even do a list with the pros and cons. It may surprise you. Be brutally honest with yourself.
    Perhaps you settled for all this before you were really ready to settle down, or were pushed into it by family pressure, and now resent it, deep down inside.
    I was completely at a loss when at 31, I had achieved all my goals and dreams. It left me with a huge feeling of loss and no direction to go. Perhaps this is something similar for you.

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