I was at my therapist a few days ago and she asked me about my feelings towards some things. When I said that I wasn't sure, she told me to think about it and tell her next time.
After a while I came to realized that I have a really hard time to describe my feelings and I'm not sure if I have any.
It's not like I can't feel anything at all. I can feel sad when others feel sad, I can cry when I see a good movie and I feel happy when I listen to happy music, but these feelings are not mine.
When I succeed at uni or get my work done I'm happy too but it doesn't feel as intense and doesn't last for long, I forget about it soon after. Same thing happens when a girl leaves me, which isn't actually so bad. I'm sad for a while but forget about the whole thing after a day or so.
It's just like I'm not interested in real live thing and don't care enough to feel one way or the other about them.
Does anybody have a similar problem?
How do I learn to feel? Is that something you can practice?
Sounds like your depressed mate. I'm the same way when I'm depressed.
Yep, depression often entails a loss of feelings, and a general numbness about everything.
You'll feel again once you get past your depression. Feelings come back to your mind just like flowers stick out of the snow at the end of a long winter.
isn't depression more like constant sadness? i had that a lot for the last few years and thought i got over it. maybe it's just more mild...
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Depression often leads to apathy and numbness with anxiety and such, not really "constant sadness". It sounds quite severe, you should start working on it asap.
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ok, i will talk to my therapist about that. but i have the feeling that she isn't really taking me serious, too bad that it's so hard to find a new one.
thank you
Op you can do it. I feel the same. but i think my brain is just so very tired of all kind of information, so it forgets stuff very fast.
The feelings the stuff that has happend, just like you have explained your thing with the forgetting. I think i've started to force myself to forget and slowly this has become a problem and imo now its too late. Cant control things as what i have told to people and what i've planned to do. I always forget meetings and such unless they are written down. Sometimes i wonder, how come i havent forgotten myself to somewhere.
I feel so little as well, i think its cuz i dont care enough. Makes me jealous when i can see people feeling and being happy and showing off what they feel and all.
Get yourself out from the hole and i hope you will be able to feel good things soon again.