Emotionally numb

[420kitty]

Not being sad or depressed. It just feels as if I'm not mentally here. I'm going through the motions of life, but my feelings are shut down for the moment. Today I had to fake every emotion. I tried to be as human as I could, and I'm sure it seemed odd.

Does anyone else get this way?

I'm not sure if it is from work stress, or drinking a fair amount of wine for the past couple days. -shrug-

 

[ladee]

Could be a lot of things, has something happened recently that would cause you to disassociate ? I do that all the time, when life just gets too large... poof, feelings shut down.. go thru the motions... all sorts of things will send me that direction.

Hope you can define something that happened that triggered you ..... we just get tired.... or upset, like I said, any number of things could have caused you to shut down....

 

[Deleted member 37474]

I once left therapy feeling perfectly fine, then I was "gone," as you describe, for five days. When I tried describing it to my therapist, the next week, she wanted to slap a new label on me, but her team reminded her that that is perfectly "normal" within the ptsd dx. Also, during that time, I said something that got me a "warning" on this site, and tried to cancel plans with my friend. (Both out of character for me). Looking back, I think that I was triggered during therapy and hadn't realized it.

 

[EveHarrington]

Yes, I get that way too. When life is too much. :-/

 

[anthony]

Does anyone else get this way?

Absolutely. People can be draining. People can be awesome and make you just feel so happy and alive.

I was walking the dogs the other day and a man (I think was Columbian) seen the dogs and just loved them. Wanted to pat them. He was just so happy, so pleasant and nice. We had a brief chat, he played with the pups, then off I went. I felt much better being around him for that short moment of my day.

We have all this stuff going on in our days nowadays, who wouldn't be worn out! Find those people who just make you happy to be around. They don't need to be in your life, or part of your life... you can spark up that type of feeling just meeting a random stranger on the streets for a few minutes, is the moral of the story.