I'm 18, I've noticed in the past few years that even when I want to cry, I just can't, I mean I can force a few tears out in a vain attempt to feel better; but I can't cry.

I don't know why really, I mean I've gone through a lot of stuff but it's not like I was in the holocaust or anything... why would I feel so emotionally desensitized like this? Most of the time I just feel empty, and 95% of the emotions I feel are fleeting and before I can even register them, they're gone.

Don't get me wrong, there are times when I do feel really happy, or really sad, but they're just really fucking rare.

I want to add that I was diagnosed with clinical depression like 4 years ago, but I remember what that felt like, and I don't feel anything like that now. It doesn't feel like depression, it just feels like... nothing. Sometimes I'll be walking around and things will start to feel like a movie, like I'm not even there and I'm watching a screen or something. It's weird.

Sorry if this post seems a little scatterbrained, my question is does anyone have any experience with feeling so detached?

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I also have a similar thing, but I don't know if it affects my physical pain. I havn't been in enough to know recently (ie past 6-7 years). I'm 16, I don't remember crying at any of the recent funerals I have been to, or through any breakup.

What do you mean, you don't know if it affects your physical pain?

Best advice ever, I should just delete this thread now but I'll keep it up for the hell of it.

You are a man, you are not supposed to HAVE any feelings.

I find that people tend to make crying into some big deal, like one has to do it to be human. I don't believe that's true.

I mean I'm not sure if physical pain can make me cry, it might, but I havn't been in extreme agony that I can remember.

With the whole movie thing, I feel the same way. Like life is running and I can't keep up. I dunno bout the crying thing though. Don't know if theyre connected. Maybe you're gay or something.

To be honest, I feel the same way.

At times I can evoke emotion but its honestly hard. I have to try and be sad.

For example, when my grandpa died, I couldn't feel anything.

When I got arrested, my mom was blaming herself for "ruining" my life and she was crying hysterically on me. I couldn't feel anything at all.

Men are bottlers, women let things flow.

When I'm under extreme stress I usually blow once every 3 months during that stress ful period.

For example I was supposed to have today off, and I am dealing with crap currently, so I was naturall pissed.

IT will be a tiny thing and your tears will flow like a river.

I havn't cried in at least 5 years, and I'm always pretty stressed and pissed off. I don't feel like I'm bottling up emotions, I just don't hold on to sadness, I just don't give a fuck about it. It's a waste of my time.