I'm tired of not feeling

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I am tired of going through life not feeling. Don't get me wrong. I have moments of sadness and moments of happiness, but these times are fleeting and far between. Most of the time I am just going through the motions day to day. I used to think I was in a depression, but I don't feel sad or hopeless or worthless or any of the feelings associated with depression. I just feel nothing.

I want to be happy. I spend time with people who care about me (these people are important to me, I want them to do well and be happy, I just don't know that I have ever really felt love for anyone). I do things that I like to do...these activities should elicit SOMETHING from me, but no. My entire life is a farce.

god do i know that feeling....i dont think its as much of an aspie thing as after awhile playing in the nt world gets exausting and u just stop caring about it. Therefore your not depressed but your outta energy to do what everyone else is doing because its THEIR world...pretty much

I feel this way too. I don't blame anyone for it. I sometimes wonder if this is the way most people are, and that because I was very up and down in my teenage years, that compared to then I now feel more emotionless. Whenever I am 'upset' I find myself exaggerating how I'm feeling to people, partly so they can see I do have feelings and partly to make life more interesting. It's not a good habit.

One suggestion to me was that my body was 'depressed' and that my mind hadn't caught up with it, which I didn't believe. It has also been suggested to me that I'm just content. It's like while having a conversation with someone now, it's always them who make more of an effort to stop the silences, because I'm absolutely fine with them.

It would be interesting to hear others' views on this.

Feeling nothing is the main symptom of my brand of depression, it's known as anhedonia. The word "depression" is a catch-all for a number of different conditions / mental states.