Unknown symptom
I've had depression since I was 12, I'm now 19 and within the past year I've experienced a new symptom I guess. Every once in a while, maybe two days out of the week, I feel nothing. It goes beyond the detached feeling that sometimes comes with depression. It's not even sadness I feel in these moments, it's nothing. I can't even feel physical pain. Once when I was feeling that way I bit my arm to see if I could feel it, I ended up drawing blood and I still couldn't feel a thing. I don't feel sadness or happiness. I lose the ability to care even about the people I know I care about. When this happens I don't even feel like I care about them. I become easily annoyed with people during these times and sometimes say rude comments, but of course at the time it doesn't matter to me. The days I'm not like that, I feel physical pain, I feelmy depression and the like. I have no idea what's happening, maybe it's not even depression related, but I wanted to see if anyone else has ever felt something like this. Thank you for reading.
Yes, you are not alone 👍 sometimes I don't even feel like the world is real or this is all actually not happening which makes me confused and then leads to me Feeling like that 😔
There is this thing called depersonalization disorder. There is no empirical evidence supporting its existence but there have been sooooo many people who complained about it that it is included in the DSM. It is like an out of body experience, best way to explain it. It comes in many different versions.More likely it is a symptom of your depression. Apathy = lack of interest and lack of motivation to pay attention to anything. It is a major symptom of depression and as you age you may start feeling it. Definitely talk with your doc b/c they know waaaaaaaaaaaay more than I do :)
Yeah I've looked that up there's derealisation as well, which where it all seems unreal and dream like and depersonalisation is more of seeing yourself go through the motions like you're a spectator of your own life
