I don't feel anything for other people

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No you're not, I am just the same, I actually submitted a story almost exactly the same as this called Emotionless before I saw this. I would not physically hurt my family to gain something, but i am indifferent to other peoples suffering.

If I hear on the news how several thousands people have died I do not care, I really don't care about it. If I see someone upset and crying i don't care.

I consider this the best way to live life, I don't want a relationship or children. It is normal.

If you think you will hurt someone you should check yourself into the hospital immediatley.

You should change. What you describe is not normal at all if you're really asking. It's called 'empathy.' You need to seek change immediately. Nobody else is going to do it for you...

I am exactly the same. If I see a news report about thousands dying(Using a previously stated example) I will most likely start laughing.

maybe your brain has been re-programmed by countless hours of war simulation games :p

i feel this way too occasionally. the trick is to be attentive of your surroundings. If you are with your friends or family and you smile,laugh, or feel sad/angry then freeze that moment in your head, and realize that though you may not care for others as much as they care for you, the people around you still influence and affect you and accentuate that feeling a little bit. If you take relationships from a more analytical and logical viewpoint(as I suspect you do) than this should be enough to make you care a bit more. At the very least this seems to work for me.

i have, almost, the same problem. i do care about my friends and family, i always help them if they feel bad an stuff, but i can't feel any emotions. atleast, for the past year. for a wholeyear i haven't felt "love" or "sadness" as a emotion, and proberbly others for a long time. evrything turns into logical thinking. and not like RedAvarice, i do wana change this. because i remember how it was to feel love. but i really can't feel anythings. i see myself as a empty shell, just exsisting to help others. does somebody knows a way to change this? because i now feel, nothing.

its normal im the same your just not attached
its probbaly a benefit well i see it as one
you wont ever get held back by emotion people will say your heartless but f*ck them

i am exactly the same theres nothing wrong with you.

i love my family but if i were to do something that would benefit me but hurt them i'd still do it and i wouldnt care i dont care about anyone really. i lost my bf of fourr years and didnt care im engaged but i feel like if he left me i'd just find someone else.

i love my self too much to give myself the touble of worrying about other peopple its simple as that.

welldo you care about youselfe

it might be because people are stupid animals and you realize it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apathy
when you realize apathy is actually harmful TO YOU, you will live more passionately. find a purpose, have dreams, live more with friends (not your regular colleague) and lover, experience new stuff and feel your life alive again

I also am the same, or worse I think. I do not care about hearing at the news that thousands of people are dying, I'm actually glad, the planet is over-populated anyway. I don't care much about my family, I'm almost certain that I wouldn't give my mother one of my kidneys if she were dying of kidney failure. My father I'm 100% sure that I would let him die. Also don't care about friends, not that I have many, I don't like people approaching me, don't like being around others. I am attracted to women but I do not care about them, I can't connect with any and can't become intimate. I do not care about anyone suffering, maybe I would about an animal, don't know for sure. I just heard about one of my mother's friends who used to take care of me when I was little that she was attacked and robbed a few hours ago. I couldn't care less...
Am I a monster?