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Problems forging emotional connections to people
Ever since I can recall I've never been able to forge an emotional connection with people may they be family friends or random people I sleep with its like I've always just went with the flow giving the minimal responses that society expected of me for example my older brother just had a his first child and everyone in my family was overjoyed about it crying congratulating him saying how cute the baby is and I felt nothing at all it was as interesting to me as watching paint dry it just seemed like another random fact of life and I don't feel guilt shame hate love jealously affection anymore its like the moment I turned 14 something in my Nero pathways or brain chemistry went wrong but has given me this hyper focus when preparing at work or collage I'm currently in an undergrad degree and spend all my time working or doing projects I attend social events to reduce the time I'm forced to spent with my current roommate as he has a pathological need for attention but his family is rich so I try to stay on his good side as where I'm located its very much who you know to get a job regardless of skills or qualifications but in my mind I don't see this as taking advantage of him more of a business deal or contract often when I mention that I'm only rooming with him because i know how rich he is he takes it as a joke but reacts by being destructive or really emotional saying I'm a toxic sociopath but always freaks out if I'm more then 3 hours away from him i know people reading this may agree with him but surely i cant be the only human on earth who is like this robot like everyone i know mentions it saying stuff like "Your all wrong inside" one quote which always stuck with me from a ex I'm intrigued to know has anyone ever felt this lack of feeling before ?
honestly sometimes when I see people crying I dont really care tbh and I just want to get that mess and problem over with (if you get what I mean) I even once seen someone mmm idk break their teeth or something?? but anyways blood was coming out of their mouth but I kinda didnt care people were following her and I just sat there not giving a damn b...... 1 reply
Hi there. I also feel this emotional disconnect (although not as much as you), so I've searched into this topic of not feeling emotions like normal people before. I've come across a few topics you could research into which may describe your condition.
Schizoid personality disorder- A detachment to social relationships and emotions (this seems ver...... reply
I've had times like this where I just stop feeling emotion and everything is about just getting to an end. It's not like how you're experiencing it but people react like that all the time so you know you're still human. I don't really know anything about this but I assume it has been a couple of years of just feeling like that which may be somethin...... 2 reply
I understand how you feel. I affect my parents the most. I feel very emotionally detatched-sometimes even disgusted. I can't look at my mom without feeling empty. She tells me how hurt she is by this, but I can't fake a smile (seriously, people tell me).
She recently had surgery in hopes of removing pre-cancerous cervical cells. When she told me, ...... 1 reply
Same for feeling like a robot sometimes, at least that's how it appears to other people for me. Maybe this is not the same, but for me it feels like there's this huge disconnect between reality and what goes on in my head. It's like 90% of my life is lived in my head and the 10% remaining is just me watching a TV even though I know what is really g...... reply
I get this. To sum it up most of my life I just haven’t cared about other people and things. I feel like most days I wear a mask of people expectations of a person since it’s harder for me to really form a connection or care. I’ve found I have been able to forge some “ meaningful” connections with people over time but unless they reach ou...... reply
Hello.
From how you have described yourself I would say that is does sound like you are perhaps a psychopath or a sociopath. People and media often display this as being a negative, the lack of empathy and being able to connect sympathetically. Psychopaths/sociopaths get a bad wrap because they are associated with killers (a few bad apples give a ...... 1 reply
