That's a really common symptom. Are you getting treatment at all?

I wish you the best.
HUGS

i was but i just moved and there's no Kaiser where i live so i really have to either find a private practice or drive a couple hours to get my treatment. I'm currently taking Wellabutrin but no therapy at this time. So I guess I need to get my act together and just find whatever works for me. Just need to get past my lethargy. I might up the dose on my meds with my psych doctor.

Yeah, I'd suggest checking back in with your doc and trying to find some therapy. It sounds like you need a little boost.

I have this. My eyes nearly burst out of my head whe i saw the title of this. I am ashamed to say, I didn't even cry when my grandparents died. I didn't really fell anything. They were just not there anymore. Is that really extreme? Do you have it that way?

I have this too. I didn't get upset when my Husband of 47 years had a heart attack. This was just this last July while traveling. Our children all cried, but I just matter of factly picked up my purse and my husband's wallet and followed the medics directions. Numb was my only reaction, like it was happening to someone else. He's fine. But obviously I am not.

I would try and find a therapist who uses cognitive training. You have to work at it but I think cognitive training is what you really need. Try and join a group or read the book by sam obitz which is generally easy to read and identify with and teaches you the right and wrong way to use a tea form. I learned the tea form exercise in my group and it has become a staple in my life that helps me keep my anxiety at a minimum and has taught me how to live in the moment which may help you fell more emotions. I think learning to counter your thoughts in the tea form you will begin to make a lot of progress faster than you thought possible.

Hi and welcome to the group. Sorry we have to meet like this. Have you ever though you may be suffering from a 5 year chronic deppression. What has changed in you life in 5 years. There has to be something that has brought you down to this level.

Tell us a little more about you life so we can better evaluate your problem.

Carrie

I guess I was right one the money here. I just read the rest of you topic statement. "Diagnosed Chronic". Now we have to figure out why!

hey!!! i am exactly the same way i dont cry or show when i am happy i just am... i ahve no emotion al bond with anybody... i could leave without saying a word to any of my family or friends (except may my boyfriend and dog, i would maybe feel something if i left them) and stilll feel nothing. there is nothing in my life that i am passionate about... at all i hate it too but dont know how too fix it... but i know what you are going through you are not the only one expieriencing this...

Hey I hope you are feeling a little better by now Future? Let me know if you need any further advice?

Hi~
I do not have emotions for 1 year, I don't like it too, but can't help it. One day marketing company called me & interviewed me for 30 min, the next day I was full of emotions. During that interview, my cousin wanted me to stop giving answers to questions, and kept adding volume to the radio. And interviewer was male.
1.5 years passed since your post, is there any progress, maybe you found good medicine?

Zarua,
I think cognitive training would help you like I recommended for Future. That was a long time ago but the advice still applies.

i have 8 years of depression now i suddenly last week became out of emotions it is very terrible but part of depression part of bad past life
some of people have less emotion besides depression illnesses i think it is about their personality but they dont realise that, only
ill peoples find it abnormal but when i get out and feel some good i full of emotion maybe it is all about apathy symptoms of depression but some time it appears with schizophrenia or other illnesses i think feeling so much and so long time negative feeling of emotion leading lack of emotion and long-term stress also leading this
sometimes antidepressants suppressing emotion to bright mood if antidepressants cant work well and you take huge dosage also make less emotion
there is some good drugs that will relief abit
solian 300 mg -day; anti sedatif antidepresssants combination treatment maybe well good lock with everyone
eliansjet

I have been reading that depression can be caused by a bacterier called helicobacter pylori & not much is known but there is a natural treatment that is claiming 100% cure for the parasite Apparently 50% of the population have it & hardly anyone is treated properly for it. do your searches & look for a guy named Dave Hompes to find this. Hope it helps all!
God Bless!

Suture I can identify with your situation. I have repressed a lot of emotion and occasionally this comes out (like you mentioned) usually in a burst of anger or anxiety. Very rarely have I felt sadness; I usually have to listen to music and manipulate the emotion into coming out. I think of very sad things and get a few tears. Last weekend I was at a club dancing for hours and felt very little exhilaration, just tiredness after a while.

Even more than disassociation with my own feelings is connecting with others'. If a friend is upset or crying I feel nothing. I think this lack of empathy comes from lack of personal experience. And I think my lack of emotion may be conditioned over many years, and could go back to childhood.

The one solution I have found (I saw therapists for 3 years) is to look for ways to help others. Even if I don't feel anything, the more I think of others rather than myself, the more I start to connect with them, albeit very slowly. Because at the core of my being I think there is extreme selfishness and ego. Doing things for others starts to break this down and open a channel to let it in, and let it out.

Hope that helps.

Timeishort, I have heard that bacteria causes some ulcers but never depression? Do you have a link to any articles on it causing depression I could read? Thanks.

I would switch anti-depressants firstly.
when my friend started on his, he was completely void of all life. You don't sound past hope, since you're concerned about this, which, in fact, is an emotion.

to all who didn't cry during something Traumatic:
that is completely normal, with or without depression. when something traumatic happens your subconscious tries to tell your conscious brain that it didn't happen, you go into denial, like a mother hiding a child from the harsh reality.

Good and interesting point:)

YW raindots

i have experienced lack of emotion for a long time. I came in here and I could see myself in some of the posts Would you say I definitely have a form of depression, because I've never been diagnosed? I am 20 years old and it's like time has completely stopped since I graduated. I haven't progressed at all