Have you ever felt emotionless?

Question

Like completely empty inside, not bored.

Answer 1

Some times you have to be to get the job done. Be it combat, EMS or a few other situations.

Answer 2

Sure... It's an interesting sensation. A lack of.. substance. A void, stretching throughout your body and soul. Memory is just that; memory. A linear recall of experienced moments in time... No sensations to go with it, no love or hate. No laughing or crying...

Detatchment. Disdain.

Emotion doesn't come equally to all people. Some of us have to actually learn what others instinctually experience. Does that make it any better or any worse? No... Just different. It offers a certain freedom other people will never experience. No worrying about emotional complications, no excess baggage to fret over. Calm, rational, logical analysis.

It's an interesting state of being... One many people strive for. Emotions can be a detriment as well as a boon. But, again... It's neither better or worse than it's opposite. Just different.

There are numerous reasons one may feel empty inside... Feel that voidian chill coursing through our veins. But that's neither here nor there... And I've not the time to go into it.

Don't feel that you're alone in this sensation. Others out there feel the same as well.

Some of us do *all* the time.

Answer 3

The normal state of mind is more or less emotionless unless one counts the tiny emotional spikes that cause one to choose between, say, 2% and skim milk. For example, curiosity is what caused you to come here.

I generally tend to be fairly emotionally unreactive compared to others although there are a few things that do stir up my passions and stir them up strongly. I can generally control whether or not I choose to feel the emotion one would normally experience as a reaction, or I can let it go. Sometimes experiencing the emotion is helpful.

I do try to display more of the emotion I do feel on the inside in terms of facial expression, vocal intonation, and body language than I used to because apparently people tend to assume I am bored|depressed|angry|whatever when they are staring at a blank face. Sometimes people can accurately read subtle bits of facial expression on me, but often I have to consciously make the proper facial expression even if I am feeling the emotion.

Answer 4

growing up, yes. I eventually ended up in a boarding school that cost $75,000 a year that helped me with different things in my life (kind of)

My nick name was the "ice queen" because I felt nothing. I still am not very emotional, but it's better.

When my grandparents died and when my cousin got married I really didn't want to go home because I didn't really know how to act, or how to care.

There's nothing wrong with me, I'm not depressed nor do I have any "issues". At boarding school there were groups we had to go to and they tried to help me analize why I didn't feel and how I should feel......now instead of feeling emotional, I just know how I should feel and be aware of the fact that I am not.

Answer 5

one of the familial things is to have parents stop teaching the lesson to be emotionless in the problem of fight or flight, we have to wait for survival to help us out of some of the small stuff we get worked over with

Answer 6

yes. I was very depressed, at the time it was better to be emotionless than suffering. but it was harder to come back to the regular world and over come my depression the longer I stayed in an apathic state

Answer 7

yes.. at many times. n every body does feel this way at some point of his/ her life.. basically it is a kind of mind's (psychological) defense/ coping mechanism.. (remember Freud's ID/ EGO/ SUPEREGO Defense machanisms) viz in case of some shock .. ppl go numb.. at other times (particulary in cases of people with experience of domestic violence/ quarrel) to cope with their feelings of severe anxiety or to protact their self esteem they either just stop experiencing the event n the emotions thereof or simply fake them out .. by saying (to themselves n others) nothing diffucult has happened..n all this just happens automatically without any deliberate attempt n withdout the conscious knowledge of the subject ..tht despite the sensing of the prevalent tension around they thru their internal talk/ or by distractions... try to bring their anxious/ stress levels down ...

Answer 8

yeah if you have been hurt and you really cared about that someone... it can take away alot of feelins...that is most of the time walls we build to protect us from the pain we know of and we become emotionless!!

Answer 9

Yes and when I get like that I wonder if something is wrong with me like am I a cold hearted ****** or something? Nah I'm just neutral when it comes to certain things I guess.......hmmmm

Answer 10

Yes.. well not me.. but my sister has. she has even taken up cutting herself so that she can feel something. I strongly suggest u find a reliable therapist to talk to.