Thread: How I feel?
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Old Jul 12, 2005, 01:34 PM
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I've felt like that a lot. If someone asks me "how are you?" the only answer I am generally capable of is "okay," regardless of how I really feel. I've thought that was because I have learned that people who ask that question don't really care about the answer, but I do that when I'm in therapy too, and I know that T actually wants an answer to the question. I think it has more to do with that I'm not in touch with my feelings enough to know how I feel most or all of the time. I really avoid even going there at all.

The blah, emotionless feeling, in my opinion, means that you are disconnected or dissociated from your feelings. It's quite familiar to me. It can be because you are avoiding your feelings (consciously or unconsciously), and can also be related to depression (particularly dysthymia, which is long-standing low-grade depression), or maybe also related to medication that dulls the pain of your depression or anxiety without giving you anything to put in its place.

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