Need to feel emotionless

[vssz]

My emotions get in the way I can't even do anything with them in the way not even end it all how do I be emotionless and get rid of my emotions

 

[Slasher]

Not. You were born emotional you will be emotional sorry to break the news to you. You can try shit like stoicism and mental excercises to care lesa but i doubt it will bring the result you ask for. Wish you the best of luck :).

 

[Kasumi]

Idk if there's a "how to" you can follow...
I suppose it comes down to practise?
I'm not sure, cause for me its easy to just switch my mask on and off, but thats probably cause I'm used to doing this my entire life already.

Perhaps you could try to "disconnect" the person you are from what you say and do, instead of reacting / answering the way you feel like, think about what the best answer would be, or what would be expected of you in the given situation and then do that.

That said I can't say I'd recommend acting like this unless it's necessary.
Every day I have to keep that mask on I feel like it kills a little bit more of the person I am.

 

[Eternal Bliss]

I hear a lot of people say antidepressants make them emotionally numb but I can't confirm it since meds have never worked on me

 

[k-rie]

My emotions get in the way I can't even do anything with them in the way not even end it all how do I be emotionless and get rid of my emotions

It's very bad it feels like torment literally can't get happy or excited or feel insulted when you should not something to strive for

 

[Ernest1964]

Being a Buddhist I live in Thailand for 7 years. While working there I also studied with a Theravada Buddhist monk for 5 years. Learning to be aware of ones emotions, learning to be aware of what one is feeling and choosing to allow the feeling to happen and yet not have a reaction takes years of training. I practiced meditation and the Buddhist ways for 5 years and I have just started to come close to thinking that I am able to control my emotions, not having emotions seems to me... a near impossibility.

 

[vssz]

Idk if there's a "how to" you can follow...
I suppose it comes down to practise?
I'm not sure, cause for me its easy to just switch my mask on and off, but thats probably cause I'm used to doing this my entire life already.

Perhaps you could try to "disconnect" the person you are from what you say and do, instead of reacting / answering the way you feel like, think about what the best answer would be, or what would be expected of you in the given situation and then do that.

That said I can't say I'd recommend acting like this unless it's necessary.
Every day I have to keep that mask on I feel like it kills a little bit more of the person I am.

What do you mean mask on or off

 

[Sweet Tart]

My emotions get in the way I can't even do anything with them in the way not even end it all how do I be emotionless and get rid of my emotions

This is the hardest thing for me. I want to be calm and grounded to better handle and move thru hard situations but I only feel ok when I'm removed from the hard situations. Escapism gives me a break and then it's back to the pain.

 

[Kasumi]

What do you mean mask on or off

meaning it's easy for me to switch from being my normal self to present a different self to the people around me.

I think to some extend we all do this every day, think of how you present a different "self" to lets say people at your work, or official meetings, etc.

 

[endofafoxtwo]

My emotions get in the way I can't even do anything with them in the way not even end it all how do I be emotionless and get rid of my emotions

It can be done thru meditation but I recommend strongly against it.

 

[Hollowman]

I'm an emotionless zombie, it's hell I doubt you'd like it.

 

[vssz]

meaning it's easy for me to switch from being my normal self to present a different self to the people around me.

I think to some extend we all do this every day, think of how you present a different "self" to lets say people at your work, or official meetings, etc.

How do I practice being emotionless what do I have to do to be emotionless and how did you do that

 

[The anhedonic one]

Emotions are the enemy.
Emotions lie to us.
Emotions are just a biochemical reaction in our dumbfuck brains.

It can be done thru meditation but I recommend strongly against it.

Meditation fucked me up.
I ended up with depersonalisation.

 

[Kasumi]

How do I practice being emotionless what do I have to do to be emotionless and how did you do that

I don't really know how to describe it, it's not really a trick or anything.
Maybe it helps if I talk a bit about my life though.

Trying to keep this short, basically I grew up with people around me that I couldn't trust and as such didn't feel comfortable showing my true self to.
And I knew if I were to show my true self they wouldn't accept it and it would just make my life harder in the end.
But I also learned how people, especially those people love nothing more than to be right.
If I just gave them the answers they expected rather than the truth they'd accept it easier.
This wasn't about lying or hiding something, just about how to get left alone by those people and keep them from making things mode difficult for me.

They had their own ideas on who I am and what I believe, so it was easier to just act like that was the case, present the person they expect me to be, say things they'd expect. It just wasn't about if that was something I actually believed myself or not.
Sometimes the things I told them were also what I believed, if what they expected of me happened to coincide with what I actually thought too, other times I believed different things than what I told them.

This way, the way I act and the things I say don't have a connection to what I think and how I feel.
So you could say I created this "fake personality" based on what they expected me to be like, and wore that like a mask facing them.

It's not that I actually am or was emotionless, I'm actually a pretty emotional person, I just learned how to separate the person I really am from what I say and do.
But as I said before, it's not really a good thing..
In times where there isn't enough room to drop that act and be myself it makes me feel like I'm slowly forgetting the real me inside.

How I manage to not react to them? that's probably what u're asking?
I'm not really "supressing" my emotions if something like that is actually possible, but its a term that you sometimes hear ig.
I think it's sort of the fact that I learned to not really care about those people and other people like them, so the things they say are just irrelevant to me, they don't upset me cause those people don't mean anything to me.

Like you dont get emotional about some rando writing bs on reddit, right?
It's the same thing, those people aren't worth wasting my thoughts on, so what do I care what they say, just feed them what they want to get them to leave me alone.