Member Since: January 19, 2010
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Last Update: January 19, 2010
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I am an 18 year old male and I have been a pretty emotionally dead person for...well since my early childhood. And when I say dead I don't mean depressed or really down or anything of that nature. It's nearly impossible for me to feel anything genuine and I can only put a mask of fakeness on so I don't seem so far out. When I was in a psychology class I read about something called anti-social personality disorder and it almost disturbed me how similar the symptoms were to my own character. I've done enough to put myself away for the better half of my life and I haven't felt a shred of remorse or conscience. Anyways, I'm wondering if my lack of emotion is a cause of concern. Nothing brings me joy, pain, or sorrow and I can't even feel love for my own family anymore. NOTHING will make me feel anything and it bothers me. All I feel like is a body and a brain without a soul. Something is wrong with me but I don't know what. I'm a very intelligent person and all it seems I can do is succeed with material things like work while my relationships are built on false pretenses and emotions I never even felt but acted like I did. My question is: If there is anybody somewhat educated about this...what could be wrong with me? Do I have anti-social personality disorder?...and am I stuck with this? (link)
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I am 26 and don't know how many times I wondered if there was something wrong with me for not seeming to feel things like others did. I felt the same way that I was acting a part and putting on a mask for the world. It is only recently for me that I really figured myself out. I am an introvert. Don't know how much you know about that term, but we just have our own set of needs. It is an extrovert world and we have to live in it. The things is we can understand extroverts but they can't understand us. They see it as a bad thing but it isn't. Being introverted doesn't mean you are shy but you need time to recharge after we are forced to socialize. I found it hard to believe that extroverts are energized by social things. They just were me out. Introverts are thinkers; we get our energy from inside. Thinking is what recharges us. We aren't better or worse than anyone else because of this but are talents usually are found in different areas than extroverts. If after doing some reading you find that introvert seems to fit accept it and don't force yourself to try and be extroverted. It only makes you feel as you and others on here have said. That you feel like you are wearing a mask, forcing yourself to laugh just because everyone else is. That there is something wrong with YOU when there really isn't. You just have to know how to care for yourself and your own needs.
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