Are you "missing" some emotions?

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I don't feel loneliness, although I'm alone most of the time. I don't feel confidence, or lack thereof either. I don't feel pride, satisfaction, embarrassment, all sorts of stuff… Are there any emotions that you don't feel?

I'm missing all the emotions. I have alexithymia so everything is a blur. There's good blur and bad blur, and sometimes angry outbursts. Fear and anxiety happen but they're so constant there's no specific reason, and I can't use them to shape my decisions. When I cry I seldom know why because I don't feel "sad" in conventional ways. Tears just start falling out of my face and surprise me. Loneliness, no. Longing? I think so. I feel something I call nostalgia since I always want to go back in time. I'm not sure why because I had even more trauma then than I do now.

No, I think I feel all the emotions.

I have alexithymia. I don't feel many emotions and I can struggle to identify feelings when I have them (or even knowing if I am feeling something at all). The only emotions I'm comfortable identifying within myself are anger, sadness (which rarely happens and I often don't notice until it's been around for a time), and amused or pleased by something. I generally can know I'm feeling one of those.

I know I have felt other things, but I also detach from emotions when they happen sometimes...it's like they're too intense and my brain goes, nope, we're not doing this, and an off switch gets flipped in my head and I go from intense feeling to nothing just that fast. I can't say what I was feeling during those times unless I revisit the situation that landed me there, but half the time nothing landed me there, so I have to go back and figure out what happened that week or month or whatever... I frequently have a delay response with emotions and it can take up to years for me to figure something out.

But in general, nah, I don't think I've ever felt lonely, embarrassed, proud, none of that stuff.

I think it was Isabella who first showed me this.



I didn't know half (maybe more) of these were emotions My ASD report said I have alexthymia and I score highly on all the tests I have done, I can recognise the core emotions sometimes. I also don't get why numb is linked to anger, I thought numb was a lack of emotion

No, I don't think there are any known emotions that I've not felt. But sometimes I've not realised it till afterwards.

I have all the emotions in there. It's just that they happen simultaneously and blur together, meaning I seldom experience just one in isolation. Naming or expressing the blur is hopeless. All I can read is good, bad, and devotion so fierce that I'd kill for people I love. Nothing else matters does it?

I don't.
I might even have emotions that do not have a name -- that emotion wheel isn't enough.
Sites with foreign words for different emotions that do not have an English equivalent isn't enough.

I can read so many stories, meet so many individuals... And still no one can name it for me.

To a point that even me saying that I'm feeling "nothing" has at least 6 different meanings.


I seem to excel at 'describing emotions' in my head and writing. But not naming it verbally.

On the flip side, I suck at processing, possessing abd carrying it. I 'solve' them instead.

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I seem to be intrinsically missing loneliness and pride, or they're exceedingly rare. These days hope is missing as well.

I have alexithymia so I'm sure I'm missing quite a few emotions. The ones I feel are usually too vague to identify. If I feel anything, it is normally good, bad, or angry at some intensity between barely noticeable to overwhelming. Most of the time I feel "fine" but that was not even listed as an option on the emotions wheel.

When I examine the emotion wheel, it looks like a lot of synonyms to me. For any given word, I know what it feels like to me but I cannot differentiate one item from many other items on the emotions wheel. I guess I would agree with others that say emotions are a blur. Loneliness is definitely one emotion that is either missing or extremely attenuated for me.

For me, "good" and "bad" emotions can often feel the same, so for example, if I'm feeling an emotion before something really great is about to happen, it feels the same as if I'm stressing over something terrible that is about to happen... sort of tense and overwhelmed and freaked out. I have to stop and analyze what I'm feeling, and say, OK, something good is about to happen, so this is a positive emotion, and is therefore presumably excitement or anticipation or possibly both. I don't know if I'm actually capable of feeling anticipation, though, I don't really understand how it feels different than excitement… It seems like it's just excitement before the fact and then they gave it a different name…?

I feel.like I have most.emotions.

Though I tend to put them on the shelf so to speak. Usually with intense negative emotions. Like grief. I will set it aside so I can function. other wise I'll go into meltdown mode.

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I feel that I have all of my emotions.