Member Since: April 9, 2011
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Last Update: April 9, 2011
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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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Well, I have something similar and it started with being really depressed and having extreme mood shifts. You know being really happy then really sad type thing. As I got older I gained control of these emotions and other things like adrenaline. I began to lose emotions and become anti social. This year things have changed. For instance I have control of my emotions again and am a A+ student, have lots of ambition, and have been extremely happy and have been making lots of friends. It seems that I was just having stress and lack of sleep related problems making me really happy and energetic in the morning and tired and sad in the evening and eventually I just bottomed out and lost it all. I simply got sleep and tried to relax and work harder and began to make friends. I can still control my emotions, others, adrenaline, and so forth but now the emotions are real and I am happy with myself and have real friends. Hope this helps.
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