Why don’t I really feel any real emotion?
Hi I’m Dylan 15m and something has really caught my attention about myself that I haven’t really ever thought about until recently
So I saw this post on the sub on the topic of like society norms, and how people are expected to handle their emotions and they mention about when girls get emotional they can let it all out and talk to everybody and be open about it but when you’re a guy, you have to suppress it or else you’re weak.
And that really made me think I don’t really feel anything. And I don’t really mean in like a depressed empty way. I don’t know it’s hard to explain.
I don’t know I’m a man. I don’t really cry or get emotional at all really it’s weird. I like don’t feel real emotion like people describe. I feel things to a small extent, but I don’t really feel love, like I like certain people more than others like my parents and my sister, but I don’t really feel as strong love connection like people describe. I don’t really feel hate or really even disliking somebody but I’m a little worried because I don’t really feel sympathy towards people either like they tell me about the problems or like their girlfriend broke up with them or they’re really depressed or something and I’m just like oh that sucks And then move on with my day like nothing happened. Like literally it happened a couple months ago a close friend of our family died and I just literally felt nothing. It’s a little scary to me actually. Because it’s in this like the trait of a psychopath or something.
Or I see some post about discrimination and homophobia and the whole ice situation a couple weeks ago about an innocent man getting killed in the streets. And same thing I’m like oh that probably shouldn’t be happening and then nothing.
I don’t feel anything, the thing that supposedly makes me human just doesn’t work right and I don’t understand why. I don’t feel real joy, I don’t feel sadness. I don’t feel emotional sympathy, real anger or frustration. It’s not even that I don’t show it either I literally don’t even think about it in my mind. And I don’t understand is something wrong with me?
I say this like I’m scared, but I don’t feel afraid I’m thinking about this all logically, like if I am psychopathic then bad things could happen to me. I don’t take joy out of others pain I just don’t feel any thing towards their pain when they do feel pain. I try to help them out, however I can because I know it’s the good thing to do and I at least care about them somewhat, but that’s it.
Posted Feb 18, 2026, 2:24 AM UTC