to ask if you have ever felt nothing

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Just that - i feel no emotion about anything it's so strance.

*strange

Yes, it can be part of a mental health condition. Are you OK?

When I'm having a depressive episode (clinical depression) that is one of the symptoms. I hope you're okay and can easily access a doctor tomorrow.

As PP said, when I've been in a major depression, that's when I've felt nothing more than any other time

As others have said, yes, when depressed.

Yes, when I had severe PND. I realised it was a problem when my grannie died and I felt nothing. Have you spoken to your GP?

I don't know - I have suffered severe depression before but not this void feeling

Another here who felt like that with clinical depression. Hope you're ok!

How long has it been going on for?

T'was a nervous breakdown for me.

My god is hopeless
I just feel so tired - like nothing matters good or bad. I honestly think I would feel the same if I was handed a winning lotto ticket or someone close to me died

Been going on for a week

When my father died, I wouldn't eat, I wouldn't speak. I just remember sleeping and staring into space when I was awake. Went on for a few weeks, ended up in hospital as I was literally starving myself.
Talk to somebody now, before it gets worse xxx

Yep another one with pnd, for some depression is the feeling of great sadness, for others like myself, it is the absence of all feelings, I would have appreciated it to feel at least "sad" at least I'd feel something! Is what I use to say to my husband!

Has something happened? When mum died (suddenly) I was in a vacuum.

I have no energy - really don't care about anything - it's not an uncomfortable feeling but I know it's not healthy - my GPS is awful - I pay privately for a counsellor and went to see her last nite. She was trying to help but it all has no impact. I just feel numb.

I left an abusive relationship about 5 month so ago - got my heart involved with someone really unsuitable after it but I ended that. I've had depression for years but never felt this disconnected from life before.

Also when I had PND - my husband took DS and I for a lovely weekend in London. I found it exhausting smiling and pretending I was happy when I was just numb. I felt like a shit human being and wish I had got help. I'm lucky that it sorted itself out but my DS was 3 by then and my DH admitted if it wasn't for DS he would have left me . Please see someone.

Disconnected from life- that's a good description. I feel like that now.

Nothing just nothing

Sorry
That's no help at all!

As others have said, I've heard this about severe depression.

For me, it happened after I was sexually assaulted as a teen, lasted around a week. I think it was some kind of psychological protection mechanism for me at the time.

Are you on any medications? Do they need tweaking?

Heard of a good book by Matt Haig "reasons to stay alive"

I know you've mentioned seeing a counsellor already but have you tried anti depressants? I felt like this when I was younger and clinically depressed and although I had CBT which was brilliant and gave me coping mechanisms I still use now, for me, my depression came from a chemical imbalance that stemmed from another health condition.

I'd been very against anti depressants as I believed they only cured the symptom and not the root of the cause until my therapist said that she really thought I'd benefit from trying them. I took them for 3 months and felt like a new person. I just remember waking up one day and realising I felt something again and it was amazing.

I hope you can find the help you need, it's a horrible place to be

I had this when I was ill with severe depression. My doctor told me I had no choice about whether or not to take anti depressants and I'm so grateful for that.

Yes I've experienced this, I had an awful 2 year long divorce following ex husbands affair, I was so worn out and depressed I ended up "numb" to any emotion for about 2 years ..... in the end my lack of feelings actually helped me when my husband tried to grind me down and tug on my heart strings to try to get me to take him back. Imagine him sobbing at my feet (I felt nothing) his emotion then turned to anger (again I felt nothing) so my depression saved me ironically in the end. I still have bouts of numbness now, I've never taken anti depressants, I don't feel any pain or heartache thou so that's good :) I think after a depression it's like you've then become sensitised and can slip back into it from time to time .... I very rarely cry these days too