I can’t feel anything

[BW Blues]

I have a loving girlfriend. I have a loving family. I have loving friends. Yet I can't feel it. I neither feel love nor do I feel like I can give it. I just feel completely empty and hollow inside. What's wrong with me?

 

[GreenTree]

Same as I feel. Think it's your minds way of protecting you even though it's horrible and doesn't make sense.

 

[Zegers]

What's wrong with me?

Depression, go to treat it.

 

[BW Blues]

I'm depressed for sure. But I think it's more than that. I don't love myself so how can I feel love from others? I think it's called emotional dependency. Where I'm looking outwardly for love and validation instead of having it within myself. I also think I have BPD which ties into the emotional dependency idea.
I'm about to lose my girlfriend, my home, my dog. Because she can't keep on trying to love me when I don't even love myself. She's given me EVERYTHING. I don't blame her. It just makes me so sad. I want to love and feel love but I just can't. It makes me want to CTB.

 

[SexyIncél]

Unclear. We'd need more info. You may have 0 or more known mechanisms that could cause these perceptions

Such as depression, narcissism, etc. Those words refer to theories that may explain, predict & help you intervene

 

[AnonymousS]

I have a loving girlfriend. I have a loving family. I have loving friends. Yet I can't feel it. I neither feel love nor do I feel like I can give it. I just feel completely empty and hollow inside. What's wrong with me?

It's an extremely common symptom in depression, also anxiety and trauma. Sometimes i am numb unable to express emotion, to the opposite and being very tearful.

 

[Hollowman]

I couldn't say what's wrong with you but I have the same problem. My mom will tell me she loves me and I feel absolutely nothing.

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

I couldn't say what's wrong with you but I have the same problem. My mom will tell me she loves me and I feel absolutely nothing.

I feel nothing as well… I think it's part of depression… Everything shuts down in order to protect itself from pain so we lose the ability to feel love or pleasure or meaning or purpose…

 

[Hollowman]

I feel nothing as well… I think it's part of depression… Everything shuts down in order to protect itself from pain so we lose the ability to feel love or pleasure or meaning or purpose…

I think you're right, too bad it's next to impossible to fix.

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

I think you're right, too bad it's next to impossible to fix.

There's some remedies - Anti-depressants can gaslight you into thinking the sky is not falling …. Love can help heal, money can offer safety if financial ruin is threatening…. There's ways to pull out of severe anhedonia…. But sometimes the hole feels too deep

 

[Hollowman]

There's some remedies - Anti-depressants can gaslight you into thinking the sky is not falling …. Love can help heal, money can offer safety if financial ruin is threatening…. There's ways to pull out of severe anhedonia…. But sometimes the hole feels too deep

The hole doesn't feel too deep it is.