[Cfergu28]

I can feel love and other emotions toward people.

I CANNOT feel others emotions toward me. I cannot feel when someone loves me. Does anyone else have this??

 

[Aridity]

don't dwell on symptoms.

 

[leminaseri]

I can feel love and other emotions toward people.

I CANNOT feel others emotions toward me. I cannot feel when someone loves me. Does anyone else have this??

that sounds to me like sociopathy

 

[Trith]

I can feel love and other emotions toward people.

I CANNOT feel others emotions toward me. I cannot feel when someone loves me. Does anyone else have this??

I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean you don't derive any please from someone loving you? I think it makes sense with DP, if I don't feel myself, I feel like others don't really know me, or they talk to who they think I am but I don't identify with that anymore, so yes, it doesn't affect me much in this case and I feel very very lonely. But personally my emotions toward others are very dampened too, although they still exist.

 

[NoDevils]

I want to talk about a study that tried to develop a difference between depersonalization and derealization. They hooked patients up to a lie detector test to measure their emotional discomfort. Supposedly, depersonalized people had a lessened reaction to their own arm being pricked by a needle, whereas derealized people had a lessened reaction to another person's arm being pricked. This might demonstrate how depersonalization numbs us to ourselves and derealization numbs us to our environment.

Feeling our own emotions is also easier than empathy, at least for a majority of people.

 

[Dragoon909]

I can feel love and other emotions toward people.

I CANNOT feel others emotions toward me. I cannot feel when someone loves me. Does anyone else have this??

I don't feel either, because my emotions are completely numb at the time.

I go to bed numb and wake up numb.

It's not that I don't love, because in my core self...I do. I just can't connect to that particular emotion.

It sucks not being able to feel love, joy, enthusiasm....

Nothing I can do.

Derealization sucks. It really does.
It's a very vile and disturbing thing to have to cope with.

But we just have to, well, until....

 

[BlueSkies]

I can feel love and other emotions toward people.

I CANNOT feel others emotions toward me. I cannot feel when someone loves me. Does anyone else have this??

I get it.

For me its that, what was being presented as love or caring or whatever actually wasn't. When i feel i care about someone my feeling is genuine but its hard to distinguish when someone feels that way towards me because it doesnt feel true. It feels like they're just saying or doing the thing they think will get the response they want from me.

I automatically translate expressions of love as a form of deception.

It can be difficult feeling like you're the only one who really cares.