about laughing and emotions

I feel like there's an issue with me not laughing enough. I can cry my eyes out with laughter when I find something in a video funny but not when people show me a video perhaps of an animal is messing about. My workmate has told me she's never seen me laugh. Whenever she laughs, I try my best to laugh but what she says isn't funny. I get paranoid that she notices that I don't laugh. Maybe oh it's funny in a quiet way. When someone shows me a video of something, I can't really seem to laugh. I feel numb. It's the same with trying to show my appreciation, I can't seem to show it well enough. I just feel numb. At one point, I was worried that I was losing my emotions. My mum has told me I sound cold. Is this normal or is there something wrong with me?

Do you take any psychiatric meds? Some of them can numb your emotions.

I did in the past but I don't take them anymore.

I feel you. I almost never laugh anymore, or when i do it´s to appear normal. I kind of miss it. Sorry i don´t have any advice.

My own sense of humor differs greatly from that of many people, and my wife would say I seldom laugh. As to videos, I do not find it funny when people have "fails" even though I *can* laugh when all of us are laughing at ourselves together.

Your reply do help me knowing that I'm not alone in this. I'm the same when I reply to threads, I feel like my advice is useless.

Maybe your reactions are your “normal” and that’s ok. Everybody is different. You do you.

I will do what I can. Thank you

I don't laugh anymore, as well.. so you're definitely not alone on that.

This is definitely ok. What someone finds funny is not funny to someone else. It's also ok to cry a lot and not laugh.

The opposite is ok, too. I laugh at everything, but I can go years without crying.

As for you feeling numb, I feel that too. I find nothing sad, not even death. We're both cold, but we express ourselves differently.