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My emotions hve become largely disconnected from the rest of my brain, I assume, as a result of this illness. As such, I often feel like an empty vessel, hollow, or sort of dead, emotionally. Super good antidepressants used to help with this, but not any more.
Can anyone relate, or is it just me? __________________ When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot, but I always found them--Rodney Dangerfield |
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Yeah, that's my baseline. It's either "sort of dead" or emotions turned up to 100. You're far from alone.
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I often feel dead inside with a heavy weight on my chest and nausea. Meds don't touch it.
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A quick google search on "why do I feel so empty?" says some stuff about developing emotional detachment as a "protective shield" due to some early trauma. I think this is my case except it's been exasperated by drug abuse..
here's the link: Why do I feel nothing? Emptiness and borderline personality - Counselling Directory I know it says it's about BPD but I think this specific "symptom" or experience can apply to a lot of people. |
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I can't help but believe that medication often causes that feeling. When my dose(s) have been too high I can feel a flat or "dead-ish" feeling inside. But I don't feel that way, in general. I feel rather tormented, as if I'm constantly on the verge of flipping into a strong mixed state, leaning toward mania. I can't seem to get anything to move fast enough, everything seems to be lagging behind my brain activity. I feel afraid of dying because my body is worn out from what my brain is doing. I am in chronic pain and feel unwell all of the time.
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It occurred to me recently that I'm sort-of like those life-size cut-outs of celebrities that people stand next to to have their picture taken. It looks like they're standing next to the real person. But actually it's just a fake. There's nothing behind it. Call me cardboard man...
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Thanks for asking! Well... actually, as I think about it, what I wrote is sort-of incorrect. I guess what I was suggesting was I feel like just a picture with nothing behind it... which is perhaps another way of saying I feel empty... or perhaps hollow. But the fact is there's a whole lot of stuff behind the cardboard cut-out I present to the world. I just never show any of it to anyone... never have (with one awkward exception)... never will...
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Is cannabis legal in your state? Other than bad feelings about myself and disgust at a few others I've not felt much at all in decades. Serotonin and dopamine reuptake inhibitors did little or nothing. Then someone introduced me to MJ. It was very very weird. I actually felt happiness and joy. That's right, actual joy and elation. I even laughed a bit. Over the years these emotions had become foreign to me and experiencing them again was almost overwhelming. I can't buy it in my state though.
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Yeah bpcyclist, I feel that way quite a bit. Like I'm just a shell of a person just going through the motions all the time.
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I feel dead inside; obsessive thinking means I know why--thought energy. The problem is, I have become addicted to staring into the mirror of self-assessment, and continuously find myself lacking, and not just in things that can be explained away as delusional thinking.
I want to leave and go far away; there's nothing for me here, and I am stuck. There's nowhere to fly to, so for me, my bipolarity (if it is indeed not actually borderline personality tendencies) is merely reflecting upon how much I lack in comparison to others in terms of where I should be as a human being of four decades on this earth. I can't get out of it, so I feel like the emptiness is just the resignation to fate. |
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Most definitely!
Dissociation, depersonalization, derealization... etc... It's all part of the bag... Disfortunately... But you are not alone!!! __________________ Whether you are a big deal or a small deal, there is always some kind of a deal going on. - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche |
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Thanks ao much to everyone who has responded. It seems like our illnesses cause this feeling of emptiness via some very specific neural circuitry. I need to go geek out and figure where and how our brains are doing this to us. Maybe we can fix it someday.
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