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want to get rid of all feelings and emotion
ok this may sound ridiculous, but as the title suggests, i want to become almost dead inside? like i am constantly over thinking things, im an overly sensitive guy (and yes i do need to man), aswell as being heartbroken and depressed for the last 8 months.
Is there a way to train yourself to not have emotion? like feeling no empathy for anyone else, feeling sad or angry or upset?
any help?
Is there a way to train yourself to not have emotion? like feeling no empathy for anyone else, feeling sad or angry or upset?
any help?
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Yeah, just detach yourself from everything for a while. Learn not to rely on other people or need to ask for advice all the time. When you get upset don't look for a shoulder to cry on. Try to sort out all your problems yourself so that you never owe anybody anything. Once you're self-sufficient you realise that you can support yourself without having to look to other people for the most trivial problems.
When you believe you're over-thinking something, distract yourself - read, watch TV surf the net etc.
But don't completely cut yourself off from other people. You can have mates and friends without relying on them and looking to them for approval/reassurance. That way if you fall out with someone it won't affect you as much.
And for the no emotion part. You will most likely always have emotion. Everyone does to some degree, even serial killers and the such like. You just need to know how to supress it or dim it when it gets too much. If you feel like your going to cry, tell yourself not to and watch a funny TV programme till you feel better. Eventually you'll train yourself to be able to stop yourself from feeling sad/letting things get to you.
Although I really wouldn't recommend that you kill off all emotion. I mean, everyone needs a little happiness from time-to-time
These things have worked for me. I've had a lot of let-downs in life but i've kinda trained myself not to care if someone disappoints me. That way I don't get hurt.
And remember - internal deadness is one step away from psychopathy... not a good road to go down.
When you believe you're over-thinking something, distract yourself - read, watch TV surf the net etc.
But don't completely cut yourself off from other people. You can have mates and friends without relying on them and looking to them for approval/reassurance. That way if you fall out with someone it won't affect you as much.
And for the no emotion part. You will most likely always have emotion. Everyone does to some degree, even serial killers and the such like. You just need to know how to supress it or dim it when it gets too much. If you feel like your going to cry, tell yourself not to and watch a funny TV programme till you feel better. Eventually you'll train yourself to be able to stop yourself from feeling sad/letting things get to you.
Although I really wouldn't recommend that you kill off all emotion. I mean, everyone needs a little happiness from time-to-time
These things have worked for me. I've had a lot of let-downs in life but i've kinda trained myself not to care if someone disappoints me. That way I don't get hurt.
And remember - internal deadness is one step away from psychopathy... not a good road to go down.
You sound like the american-phsyco
Wanting to have no emotion is an aspect of depression, getting there is not getting out of depression. The opposite of sadness is happiness, not nothingness.
Your question is utterly the wrong one. So on this front, no. No help. It wouldn't be help.
Your question is utterly the wrong one. So on this front, no. No help. It wouldn't be help.
lol sounds like you want to be like me...
well just have a cig and tell your self you only need your self in this world and **** everyone else. (not literally) and then watch some gangster movies and american pie and just play girls and enjoy your self. live life as if its a movie and then you wont feel anything
well just have a cig and tell your self you only need your self in this world and **** everyone else. (not literally) and then watch some gangster movies and american pie and just play girls and enjoy your self. live life as if its a movie and then you wont feel anything
Ask your doctor to put you on lithium tablets.
That should make you pretty emotion-less.
That should make you pretty emotion-less.
Yes it is possible, I spend most of my days like that. Or you could try weed?
You don't want to do that. Trust me on that one.
I did this last year as I had a difficult time with people and was getting way to upset, so told myself I would try to just not care anymore. It worked, to the extent that I now am struggling to care about stuff and people that are really important to me, have lost interest in getting to know new people (and I don't care anymore), and will most likely need counselling to fix this. I am a little less unhappy than I was overly feely, but *not* caring has brought with it a set of problems of their own. Both situations are not good to be in and are causing me heartache.
Try to tone it down, become less sensitive (maybe seek out a counsellor; if you're depressed this may be an idea anyway), but don't go down the route I did.
I did this last year as I had a difficult time with people and was getting way to upset, so told myself I would try to just not care anymore. It worked, to the extent that I now am struggling to care about stuff and people that are really important to me, have lost interest in getting to know new people (and I don't care anymore), and will most likely need counselling to fix this. I am a little less unhappy than I was overly feely, but *not* caring has brought with it a set of problems of their own. Both situations are not good to be in and are causing me heartache.
Try to tone it down, become less sensitive (maybe seek out a counsellor; if you're depressed this may be an idea anyway), but don't go down the route I did.
I can empathise with your situation, i have felt the same in the past. To be honest i think you should seek therapy or councelling. I know that it sounds like a drastic step, but its not really.
You will never be able to feel no emotion - sorry!
You will never be able to feel no emotion - sorry!
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ok this may sound ridiculous, but as the title suggests, i want to become almost dead inside? like i am constantly over thinking things, im an overly sensitive guy (and yes i do need to man), aswell as being heartbroken and depressed for the last 8 months.
Is there a way to train yourself to not have emotion? like feeling no empathy for anyone else, feeling sad or angry or upset?
any help?
Is there a way to train yourself to not have emotion? like feeling no empathy for anyone else, feeling sad or angry or upset?
any help?
i have personally been exactly like that myself- as in completely detach and distant, nonchalant. i achieved it unintentionally, through depression. i think it came about due to shock and isolation; not speaking much to people. also you could try pain theory, as in pinching yourself everytime you can feel yourself thinking to much, become spontaneous (not wreckless) also crying loads usually puts me into a strange trance in which i simply didnt care (not that a cry much anymore but it use to)... most emotions were gone... all accept anger.. haha oh how my temper use to rage
due to this i wouldnt advise you to try and not do this to yourself... see a councillor (believe me its not as scary as it sounds) and try laughing more...
Become a poker player, then apply that to every day life. When playing poker you need to make sure emotions don't influence your actions and decisions 
littleshambles
The opposite of sadness is happiness, not nothingness.
But "nothing" is the opposite of everything, surely.
Gemma :)!
Ask your doctor to put you on lithium tablets.
That should make you pretty emotion-less.
That should make you pretty emotion-less.
Yeah you're right, which is why I'd never be flippant about advising people to get lithium or other meds to take away their feelings. Sometimes they can take away everything. It might not take long before you're unrecognisable to your family and friends, thus breaking a great many hearts while becoming more and more of a robot. Docs won't prescribe stuff like that lightly anyway. I guess you weren't being wholly serious, but still, just thought I'd say. If you're a danger to yourself then yeah meds might save your life, but they don't leave you with much of one either. Obviously we has beef, drugs and I
you dont want to be emotionless. i used to have svere depression ad was up and down all the time but at least i got things one because i cared about things. now i dont give a damn about anything. yes im spared the lows but i get very little done simpl because nothing means anything to me. i prefer the depression.
just because you may be over sensitive or over emotional doesnt mean you have to become emotionless!
As people have already said, and as you seem to have already found out- going to the other extreme will cause just as many problems!
if you've had a long period of depression and heartbreak it seems like you haven't confronted your problems and if you cant do that yourself then seek proffensional help, from your school, your GP...
being sensitive can be a really good thing just as long as you balance it out with being rational about whats actually worth getting upset about, people can handle slightly sensitive people but noone wants to be with an emotionless psychopath - no offence but its the route your heading for..
find your self of humour and get out more, why dwell on the past when you've got the rest of your life to look forward to?
As people have already said, and as you seem to have already found out- going to the other extreme will cause just as many problems!
if you've had a long period of depression and heartbreak it seems like you haven't confronted your problems and if you cant do that yourself then seek proffensional help, from your school, your GP...
being sensitive can be a really good thing just as long as you balance it out with being rational about whats actually worth getting upset about, people can handle slightly sensitive people but noone wants to be with an emotionless psychopath - no offence but its the route your heading for..
find your self of humour and get out more, why dwell on the past when you've got the rest of your life to look forward to?
common_person
But "nothing" is the opposite of everything, surely.
Yeah you're right, which is why I'd never be flippant about advising people to get lithium or other meds to take away their feelings. Sometimes they can take away everything. It might not take long before you're unrecognisable to your family and friends, thus breaking a great many hearts while becoming more and more of a robot. Docs won't prescribe stuff like that lightly anyway. I guess you weren't being wholly serious, but still, just thought I'd say. If you're a danger to yourself then yeah meds might save your life, but they don't leave you with much of one either. Obviously we has beef, drugs and I
Yeah you're right, which is why I'd never be flippant about advising people to get lithium or other meds to take away their feelings. Sometimes they can take away everything. It might not take long before you're unrecognisable to your family and friends, thus breaking a great many hearts while becoming more and more of a robot. Docs won't prescribe stuff like that lightly anyway. I guess you weren't being wholly serious, but still, just thought I'd say. If you're a danger to yourself then yeah meds might save your life, but they don't leave you with much of one either. Obviously we has beef, drugs and I
No I wasn't being serious in the slightest. But then again, you don't often get people seriously requesting to get rid of their emotions do you..?
"But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns,
That they should be as stones.
Wretched are they, and mean
With paucity that never was simplicity.
By choice they made themselves immune
To pity and whatever mourns in man
Before the last sea and the hapless stars;
Whatever mourns when many leave these shores;
Whatever shares
The eternal reciprocity of tears."
-Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
That they should be as stones.
Wretched are they, and mean
With paucity that never was simplicity.
By choice they made themselves immune
To pity and whatever mourns in man
Before the last sea and the hapless stars;
Whatever mourns when many leave these shores;
Whatever shares
The eternal reciprocity of tears."
-Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
common_person
But "nothing" is the opposite of everything, surely.
Well I suppose if it were the opposite of anything it would be something, but I don't think it is.
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