No emotions?

Question

What is defined as no emotions? I was told i have no emotion. Is it because I don't cry as much as everybody else? Or that I don't have deep meaningfull conversations with people about how much I love or care about them?

Answer 1

Everybody has emotions. But some people, like me, rarely or never show them. People don't know what to think of you because they can't "read" you.
People who wear their emotions on their sleeve for all to see usually tend to leap before the look. There is no rule that says you must cry when you are sad. There is no rule that says you must kill the person that makes you angry (in this country, anyway).
Your true friends can understand you. New friends will learn to.

Answer 2

You have to understand that most people use language poorly at best. They have trouble saying what they really mean, so they flail at it by saying things somewhat similar to what they really mean. Sometimes they don't even know the difference.

Nobody can REALLY mean that you have no emotions. It's a completely ridiculous claim. To know what you are feeling, they would have to be reading your mind. Now maybe you hang out with odder people than me, but I have never yet run across someone who claims to be able to do this with any degree of accuracy.

So they must be meaning something else. Maybe it's "I can't tell what you are feeling". Which happens for some of us more than others of us.

Speaking from experience, it was one of the most common complaints of my ex. To me, stating something obvious calls into question the intuitiveness of it's nature. Nobody says, "I see the sun came up today" unless they are implying that there are days in which the sun does NOT come up. Likewise, I almost never said "I love you" to my ex because to me my love was so complete and unflagging that it seemed ridiculous to even IMPLY that occasions might arise where I did not love her.

But because she didn't hear me say it a lot, she began to think it wasn't so. Nor, I have discovered, is her way of thinking as unusual as mine is.

So to get back to the point... maybe the real problem is that people want to feel closer to you but are having trouble doing so. They want to understand you in a way that they understand themselves, and perhaps are having trouble realizing that you CAN'T be understood in quite the same way.

This leaves you with some unfortunate choices, if that is the case. You can try and simulate the stimuli they are accustomed to recieving. This is not likely to be easy, but with time it may become somewhat habitual. Or you can try and explain yourself to those people who care, and maybe you can care enough about each other that it doesn't matter that you don't quite have the same amount of understanding. Or you can just be alone.

Like I said. Not great choices. But that's all that I've figured out. Best of luck!

Answer 3

No emotions is usually known as apathy.

No emotions will sometimes be identified as not understanding another's point of view, not crying at seeing something horrible, not smiling when something good happens, etc. Also, not many people have deep, meaningful conversations with people about how much they love or care about them.

Answer 4

Psychopaths have no 'emotions'.

Many people will tell others that someone has no emotions because they don't understand how that certain someone expresses their emotions.

The huge majority of people have emotions.l Some show them easily and others don't.

I wouldn't worry too much about this. It is best to be yourself and let the chips fall where they may. If you feel you need to express your emotions in a different way perhaps you could speak to a professional therapist.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Answer 5

You probably don't show your emotions. Everybody has emotions, some people express them openly and others have their own ways. It's not exactly that your embarrassed, although you might be, you just don't want to share. You probably do love people, but maybe you don't feel like you have to say it out loud.
I love and care about many people, I just have a hard time saying it outright. If people think that you have no emotion then their obviously not thinking, of course you have emotion - your human, maybe it's not outwardly visible. Don't feel that you HAVE to be extremely open, but every once in awhile you might want to be a little ... outwardly emotional.

Answer 6

It's impossible for humans to have "no emotions". If that were true, some people would never feel accomplishment and pride for a job well done or shame and embarrasment over failures. Some define sociopaths and other disorders as lack of emotions in certain situations.
But you just probably don't diplay them as much.

Answer 7

Actually, I don't think that human being can be emotionless to anything. But actually, if you are said no emotions, it probably means that you don't care about things around you... well not that you don't care but not enough for them to say that it's not emotionless. It's like when somebody dies, your only reaction would be, I don't talk but don't cry... people would think you're emotionless because the culture wants you to cry when someone dies, especially someone that you like, and the fact that you don't means you're kind of out of this culture so they find it strange which concludes to a no emotion reaction. But even if I don't know you, I'm sure you're not that emotionless. Yo probably don't show it, but it doesn't mean that your heart doesn't feel it. ;) Good luck

Answer 8

Everyone shows emotions. You are just more of an introvert. But be careful, because if you bottle up frustration or anger, sooner or later someone is going to get the full dosage. It can be messy. And try giving people sincere compliments, or telling them how much you care about them. That is something everyone likes to hear!

Answer 9

If you don't have emotions you would be a sociopath. Which I don't think a sociopath doesn't realize the lack of emotions, so I think you just keep it to yourself. Do yourself a favor and sit down and have a good cry or scream or just get mad..

Answer 10

Depending on the context of the statement, I would say that it means that the person doesn't show their anger or sadness, sometimes to a certain event. Also, maybe if you did something, like breaking up with someone, and didn't display any sadness towards it, people often say that the person has "no emotion."