Yes, the issue of detached emotions is a complicated one. I have felt this recently, and it is called anhedonia, I think. I feel depressed and sometimes, I will cry randomly but it seems I rarely can cry even though sometimes I want to. I find that I cry over things I watch on TV also, but it is a random kind of thing as well. Any thought regarding my own experience or pain brings no emotion to me; it is like I purposely do not want to feel those things.