Hi Ladies do any of you ever feel like you don't feel. No desire for anything. I know this sounds like depression but it is not!!! Lately my daily anxiety has changed to what I call NO FEEL. I just can't explain it.

Anyone feel this way?

Angel1

Angela:

Yes I have experienced this about 10 years ago. I was diagnosed as depressed.

I no longer suffer from this everyday but once in a while, I have a day where I feel nothing. I cannot cry, I cannot laugh, just cant have an emotion.

Hugs to you,
Jeaninne

I have a lot of days like that...this week has been like that.

yes, been there done that...........it's starting again, i am froze! that is all i can say.........hope you are ok.............take care

much the same thing..........this happened 20 years ago, and its coming back only to haunt me.

The answer is 'Yes' but I think this is Depression.
Depression comes in many guises and one of them is apathy and lack of feeling about anything.
I am not a Doctor but I feel you should seek some Therapy.
I did not even know I was depressed when diagnosed.It was labelled'masked depression' The person functions fairly well from the outside but could care less about anything.It is like trying to live in The Land of The Dead'

Please do see your Doctor
And keep posting
Praying hard for you tonight
Warm and gentle hugs
Elizabeth

Yes, Angel......I feel this way everyday along with bouts of morning anxiety and crying then I just feel completely flatlined on the inside. My husband doesn't understand why I can't get excited by or even want to do anything. I just force myself to go through the motions of everyday life and sometimes that causes the anxiety to kick in even worse.

It's called anhedonia and my brother has been diagnosed with this. He feels nothing - - no joy, no sadness. Even having a couple of drinks does nothing anymore. He said in the past a couple of drinks would help him with the flatline, but not any more. It's an awful way to live. Altho I could certainly do without feeling sadness since that seems to be my only emotion now that I am post.

That is what Progesterone does to me.

ALL THE TIME! I'm sorry you're dealing with this, it's weird, and you can't quite focus on what you feel, at least not specifically! It's almost some sort of combination of all of it, happy, sad, depressed, TIRED, needing to be left alone and yet not,..... i don't know .... like you said, it 's hard to explain .... but to me, it feels "numb" ....

It is definitely depression and anhedonia; I've been there many times. The funny thing is, I found when I started on antidepressants (many times), there was often a strong feeling like this for about the first three weeks, but then it would go away. Seems like it had to get even worse before it could get better - which it always did for me, with or without ADs. I find that depression, horrible as it is, always brings about something better in the end. Some good change always results from depression, for me.

I feel that numb feeling at times....and i don't know about anyone else but sometimes i think i like it better that feeling....(sometimes it's nice to have break from feeling all the different emotions)

Yes, I had his alot last year and I wish I had payed more attention to the feeling. I guess I thought I was just really tired. Then all &**( broke loose and I'm still trying to get the depression and anxiety under control.

Ang

Sheyna I totally agree with what you said. As painful and horrible as depression is, it is our mind and bodies way of telling us "something is not right here, something needs to change " and in my case it has brought a new sense of self and strength.The journey through it is alwful and terrible but there is a rainbow at the end of the storm.My depression went away on it's own in about 6 months, it seemed like forever and a day.Now I catch myself quickly when I start feeling hopeless, that's when it's dangerous for me, it's that feeling of utter loss and hopelessness that alerts me to pull myself back up so I dont get too far into that pit that I can't crawl back out.

Yes, I too feel this way and have for about the last year (as a matter of fact one year ago today is when this nightmare began)..... I am just going through the motions of each day and can care less.... is this what the low estrogen does for us? or is it a response to the stress of the hormonal flux going on inside us? Wish I knew so I could alleviate it or at least get a little relief.

Let us help one another through this and lean on one another for support.

love and hugs,
mood_swinger