Situation · Yourself

“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

  1. When did I last feel something clearly, and what was happening then?
  2. 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

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