“I feel nothing anymore”
What could be going on
Alexithymia: Not knowing what you feel, or naming it as bodily sensation, fits; check if it has always been so.
Emotional numbing: Fits if feelings shut down after stress, loss or trauma; check whether there was a before.
Anhedonia: If pleasure and wanting have gone flat too, this fits; check whether old enjoyments now do nothing.
Major depression: Flatness for two weeks or more with low energy and sleep changes could be depression; check those.
Burnout: Chronic overload can drain all feeling; check whether the blankness tracks work exhaustion.
Childhood emotional neglect: Fits if feelings were never noticed or named at home, so you never learned to read them.
Questions to carry
- When did I last feel something clearly, and what was happening then?
- Who in my life knows I feel this way, and who could I tell?
Also said as
- I don't really feel emotions
- I can't tell what I'm feeling
- he says he feels nothing about anything
- people ask how I feel and I genuinely don't know
- I'm emotionally blank
- I'm emotionally numb