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I feel emotions, but I don’t care about others’ emotions, even the people closest to me
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 November 10th, 2025
...See more I’ve been trying to understand this about myself and thought this might be the right place to ask. I do feel emotions. I get sad, angry, and happy. I can tell when someone else is upset or hurting, but at the same time, I just don’t really care about their emotions. Even when it’s someone close to me like family or friends, I want them to live well and be happy, but I don’t feel connected to what they’re feeling. When someone cries, it makes me uncomfortable. I want to comfort them only so the situation ends, not because I genuinely feel their pain. When someone tells me something sad, I understand it’s sad, but I don’t actually feel sad for them. It’s like I can recognize emotions, but they don’t fully reach me. What’s strange is that I can cry, but usually for myself. When I feel hurt, lonely, or misunderstood, I can cry easily. But when something bad happens to someone else, even someone close, I feel almost nothing. When my grandmother passed away, someone I was genuinely close to, I didn’t cry at all. I saw even distant relatives crying, but I felt blank. Yet I can cry over fictional characters in movies or dramas as if they’re real. It confuses me. I can feel pain and empathy in fiction, but not in real life. I’m wondering if this is emotional detachment, a coping mechanism, or something else entirely. Has anyone else experienced something like this? Is this a sign of low emotional empathy, or just a form of emotional self-protection? I’d really like to understand it better.
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