DEPERSONALIZATION EMOTIONAL NUMBNESS (how to get back feelings)

What are some activities that you have been doing help help you with this?

I tried doing things that I used to do, like as a kid i used to play games all the time so i tried doing that again, but there's just nothing, no enjoyment or emotion or anything except depression. No matter what I do it's just numbness all the time, nothing helps or gets around it or anything. I can't remember what it was like to enjoy things or to feel emotion, or if I even ever have felt it. If this is life, I hope it ends soon.

I'm 6 months sober from meth and alcohol and this is how I feel in life right now. I feel like I'm emotionally empty I want to feel but can't feel. Sometimes I have laughter at work but I just want to feel again like a way of saying I want to be normal again. Things that normally make me sad and cry or someone sharing something I would usually cry about like a sad story or something I now don't cry nor have much to say back to them and that isn't like me at all. I feel like I'm emotionally unavailable and I don't like it I feel emotionally empty. I know I was emotionally invalidated my entire life by my dad but would that and the addiction I went through have anything to do with what I'm going through right now the feeling emotionally empty all the time now when I don't want to be

Is it normal that i ultimately cried after watching this video?

Thanks

I'm very dissociative and have definitely experienced derealisation at times, but never understood depersonalisation. I think though I might've been in that state for the last 10+ years. I've recently started feeling emotions extremely vividly, I could always know what emotion I was feeling but would have to choose to express them and they never felt intense, even in extreme contexts. But lately it feels like it's coursing through my veins and filling my entire brain. Horror movies are making my heart race, defeat and failure is feeling frustrating, I'm feeling bored and getting angry at things, people are getting on my nerves at work, I'm even feeling anxiety, shame and embarrassment (at appropriate times). I don't like it and I want to go back. I wasn't experiencing anything strongly, but I was content. Im still in control of my thoughts and actions, but I don't think ive felt this out of control of how I feel things since I was a kid. Is this how everyone feels? Do people really have emotions rush over them like waves every corner they turn? It sucks. It's been barely a week and I hate it

I feel scared all times & feel nothing nor i feel family problems & emptiness. Just in my mind I'm tired of this, not having energy to do exercise just tired all day😢so sir give me a solution of this please 🙏

As a child I used to be very emotional, cried a lot, laughed a lot, and felt love.

Now I feel nothing, not even fear. I can walk alone at night in a dangerous neighborhood and feel nothing, totally numb. Cant even feel love for my wife either. I have tried meditation.....but it seems not to be working. Anyone has any ideas?

Thank you so much for this video.

Everything is starting to feel pointless because I feel nothing. I'm in my first year of uni atm and I haven't opened one book yet, because I don't see the point in graduating and pursuing a good career if I won't be able to feel anything. The fact that I'm already struggling with serious concentration struggles isn't helping either. It's so scary for me atm. I can't feel love and I'm scared that I will never be able to feel anything again, because this is normal now. I'm used to feeling nothing and I can't remember what it's like to have emotions.

I feel like I didn’t have any feelings until about a year ago. After spending a year with them I want them gone. I’m not finding info on how to go back to that state unfortunately. This is an everyday hell and though it wasn’t much better before it was at least bearable. I just have so much rage and sadness flowing through me at all times and it’s simply not worth having feelings at all.

I’m pretty numb when I workout. Hmmm interesting.

Thanks for this video. I’ve been feeling emotionally numb for the last 4 months. I lost my dad in May and 1 1/2 month after, I had a disappointment with a girl I was dating. Feeling this way sucks. I’ve meeting with a mental health therapist.

Is it possible for your mind to sound silent, as in loss of the volume of your inner monologue?

good tip, if only there was anything i enjoy xd

I always wished death when i ran out of reasons to live. I do not want to die, I just wanna have reasons to live. Life is a good thing, I wanna keep experiencing it! I still believe everything happens for a reason and I shouldn't give up. I can't give up. I wanna enjoy life.

anyone else having brainfog ?? problem memorising ?? dry mouth and muscle ache ?? no more making jokes ...creativeness is 0.....feeling tired all the time.....cant cry ....emotion is 0 ...i really was depressed until i fixed that with vit D....now thats gone but im still in problems....difficulty gaining muscle and getting from the most horny man with high testosterone to become someone actually the opposite ?? and no, i never did steroiods or other stuff....is it my guts not working properly or is it because of despression ?? i ``live`` like this zombie over 15 years.

Hi I suffer from intense emotional numbing caused by my psychosis. I do not feel any emotion, not happy sad anxious angry. I literally feel nothing on a day to day basis. It started at my grandmas funeral when I was unable to cry or grieve her. I miss being able to laugh and cry. I cant even laugh with my friends now I am so numb

It is so hard to live like this. Being emotionally empty, not being able to feel love and give love, not caring about things, being in a survival mode. All I want was to have a happy life, where I can love, nurture, care for people, but with this emptiness, it has become very hard, to even do day to day activity. Sometimes, I fear, whether i will be able to get out of this and just want to give up. But can't loose hope, will fight and get better.
And to everyone out there struggling, keep going. You can do this.

Why is the voice in my head so much quieter and weaker than it used to be and how can I get it back?

In my case, its necessary, as the absolute horror of all I've been forced to lose from gang stalking is too overwhelming for me to bear most of the time. Those behind this evil program have redefined what it is to be callous, inhuman, and emotionally reptilian.

Thankyou for this.

I am tired of being numb and devalued. Stressed and overwhelmed.

Most of my emotions are muted to the point where I rarely feel them and when i do they are gone as fast as they come. The only emotions i can access easily are sorrow and rage. I have tried getting out and doing things. It was a horrible experience. I disassociated and managed to break my finger because of the lack of body awareness.

Thanks man, got anxiety attacks, depressed and feel nothing. Everytime I would do something all I could think of is “I usually would feel like _ and I’m not feeling that right now” I know this isn’t forever.

It’s so weird watching this video your eye brows keep twitching I feel like it’s normal but when I see these things to me it’s a sign on how far I am from human 😢

i just want to feel love again i dont love anyone or anything i feel empty and i dont like it😭😭

Hi guys. For everyone struggling with this, is the numbness not an advantage? Like in everyday life, is it not better to feel detached? Or is there something I'm not understanding? Please let me know for educational purposes.

Thank you🙏, this video helped me a lot😃

10 years on antidepressants, I don’t feel alive anymore 🙃

I have been doing things I enjoyed for at least 30 minutes a day and it never helped and I was doing that before I heard this advice and that hasn’t worked for years

How is everyone now that has been going through this?

Its been 4 montha since my anhedonia started, i was doing what i used to enjoy every singld day, never thought about it like "pointless, i dont feel anything",and i still dont feel any hapiness in my life. If this goes on for 2+ years no way i'm gonna cope with it, as a hedonist i dont see a point in life without pleasure, its what makes life worth living. Ending such useless exustence is the only option, cant imagine living more than 2 years without any kind of pleasure

I have severe anhedonia and apathy I tried many stuff but nothing works bc theres no cure for it yet its like living dead like a robot

I can laugh and get upset but I can’t get excited or scared because of my DPDR but a few months back even with DPDR I had my emotions but going through a stressful period I seem to have lost some of them again

Thanks I really needed that talk.

I just started having dpdr for 2 weeks or so and i start not having emotion not for familiy animals or anything the only one emotion i feel is when i hug/kiss my gf i get that heartwarming sensation in rest i dont feel happiness or anything and i feel like im behind a screen like that what is happening isnt real

Hi Daniel, are you a qualified therapist or have any other relevant qualifications to treat DP/DR?

It’s 5:40am where I am and I just woke up in the middle of a panic due to the numbing being so heavy the past few days and I was actually dreaming about it. It’s even invaded my sleep now! I feel like my brain is trapped in a vice of numbness. I can’t feel anything other than intense fear and everyday I feel like I’m getting worse and worse and slowly slipping away. I’ve never known terror like it. This video helped me focus on something else for a few minutes. So thank you for posting it 🙏🏼

Is it possible that my emotional numbness is the consequence of a period of stress and panic attacks? After those episodes I just feel like I don't have interest in the world anymore...

Well Ive been doing the things I love since I had Dpdr and my emotions never came back. I even do not have any dpdr symptoms anymore and its been 2 years. Im worried something is heavily wrong
and its disgusting living with absolutely zero feelings. I meditate and i really go at it with patience and I told myself a year ago It does not matter im just gonna keep going and not try to force feeling,But no results at all.