What does one do when one is not capable anymore of producing emotions to any sort of new situations?

Question

What I mean is emotional death? How do you revive someone who is emotionally dead? What could be the possible cause of emotional death?

Thank you.

This is a situation wherein emotions don't matter anymore, it's so familiar that it doesn't function anymore.

Answer 1

Emotional death is also metal death. You become nothing more than a physical shell. Of course, mental death and physical death can be seen at various levels. Still I am not sure if the question is about mental death(due to some form of abuse/lack of emotion) or about existentialism(due to some form of excess of emotion to the point emotions don't matter). I am not sure where you are on the scale, so I can't really answer your question properly.
All I can say is that I have been all over between the two extremes myself. Still, in the end, the very fact that you don't give off emotions will start to become an emotion itself. Although, the fact that you realize this is the first step back to where the question assumes you want to go. Back to being "normal."
Still when you get there you'll just want to go back, everyone likes where they aren't and hates where they are.
Just don't die completely, their are many souls waiting to snatch up a soulless body. Just follow your heart.

Answer 2

There are many different types of emotional "flat affect" and many different possible causes. Schizophrenia often has this characteristic. Damage to the limbic system (by disease or physical trauma) can lead to problems of this sort. I suggest taking a look at the work of Antonio Damasio ("The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness" or " Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain" for insights into possible neurological conditions associated with lack of emotion.

Some possible psychological sources would be child abuse. If you are talking about a life-lone problem, this is a good possibility, and therapy may be of help. If you are talking about a problem that is more recent in the person's life, I would definitely consult a neurologist. In any case, therapy will probably be required. Did this condition seem to be triggered by any particular event or change in life circumstances?

If the situation was triggered by any sort of trauma, or if you suspect child abuse, you might consider EMDR. We've seen some amazing results with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). It is mostly known for helping with PTSD (Posts Traumatic Stress), but people are starting to find that is can help many different kinds of problems.

You might also consider Yoga meditation and/or seeking help from a spiritual/holistic healer. Whatever you might think of the scientific credibility of these things, the bottom line is that they often work. Finding the right healer is not always easy, however, and in any case I suggest making this a supplement to medical/psychological treatment – not a complete substitute for it.

A therapist or neurologist should decide the best sort of treatment. Friends and loved one's can help by making an effort to understand the problem and support whatever types of treatment are tried.

And since you asked this in the philosophy section, I suppose I should add a philosophical note: The standard human condition involves escaping from truth. That's just what we do; we run from the truth of our Being. We are thrown into existence without a choice, but once we exist, we exist as potential, and we are fearful of this unfathomable freedom. So we find a zillion different ways to run from ourselves – we get absorbed in daily life, get lost in the crowd, etc. But sometimes these tricks fail us, and we are left confronting our selves in a stark and uncomfortable way. One possible response is to shut down – to suppress our emotions so that we don't have to feel anything, and thus don't have to experience the anxiety of Being. But this anxiety is actually a "calling" of sorts – it is the true Self reaching out to draw the self back into the Self. The typical response is to run harder, trying to escape the Self, but another possible response is to turn toward the Self and face it head-on. This involves letting the unconscious flood into consciousness – complete with all of the terror and unpleasantness that comes with it. This is why we need therapists, healers, gurus, etc., to help guide us through this territory. So the philosophical bottom line is that the depressed person is actually being presented with a tremendous gift, but the gift is not being recognized as such. Unless you have neurological damage to certain brain structures, the emotions are probably still there, but they are being suppressed or distorted by unconscious mechanisms, and these unconscious mechanisms are keeping your from recognizing the gift.

Answer 3

It is very very hard to bring a person back from that, it could take a very long time.
You need to find out what that person truly desired to have more than anything before they had an emotional death.
To be honest it took me four years.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Don't worry I'm sure the GOP will make a steady comeback in 10 years...

Answer 6

Stand them beneath a star lit night sky and dare them not to be moved!

Answer 7

Unspeakable abuse. This person needs to get into therapy asap.

Answer 8

Seek professional help, because suicide may be the next step.

Answer 9

It's called clinical depression...but on the other hand it is also called self-protection...

Answer 10

Tell them to back up on their antidepressnt dosage....