Sudden feelings of emptiness..

[Talvi]

Ive always wondered if anyone else feel like that - you feel good, you are doing something ordinary ... sitting with friends, walking on the street, whatever and suddenly this weird numb empty feeling takes over thats not really related to anything.. like there is nothing that you want and nothing that you feel, just empty...It lasts just for seconds.. or at least less than a minute.. and then just goes away.

Its really unpleasant and its happening more lately than before.

[Han Cholo]

You've just described my whole life.

[Lithium]

It happens to me all the time and it lasts longer, mostly because of the thought that doing ordinary stuff every day won't change my life to something better.

[Talvi]

You've just described my whole life.

Cheer up, buttercup.

[Talvi]

It happens to me all the time and it lasts longer, mostly because of the thought that doing ordinary stuff every day won't change my life to something better.

Im not sure if its the same thing because mine isnt connected to anything at all, and I dont have any particular negative feelings at the time. It happens randomly like a deja-vu.

[Arthas]

I've had that feeling generally for the past few years I also get that feeling when I break my "daily routine".

[Drawing-slim]

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[Talvi]

Im trying to search something on the internet about this but I cant seem to find anything. Right now Im not sure if Ive explained myself clearly or if anyone bothered to read.

It is like deja-vu, it suddenly takes over, you feel disconnected, displaced, numb, empty or kind of emotionless, there are no feelings of misery or sadness and then like deja-vu it just lasts for seconds and then everything is back to normal. It is not related to any previous thoughts of mine, mostly it happens when I am feeling content. It happens once a year, sometimes more and maybe some years it doesnt happen. Although Ive felt it too often this summer.

The closest thing on the whole internet Ive found is this:

In borderline personality disorder, the term refers to the marked lability and reactivity of mood defined as emotional dysregulation. The behavior is typically in response to external psychosocial and intrapsychic stressors, and may arise or subside, or both, suddenly and dramatically and last for seconds....

However I dont think i have borderline personality disorder and the feeling is not connected external psychosocial and intrapsychic stressors..... not anything that Im aware of anyway.

[Arthas]

All of those so-called "personality disorders" are a load of bullshit just used to alienate people who are different to what society defines as "normal". I probably have a shitload of them but that doesn't make me some kind of retard.

[arcticwolf]

Here you go guys http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52614. Read this thread and you will understand it. As a matter of fact if you read it carefully and a few times so it sinks in, you will understand any feeling under the sun.

I recommend doing the practical thing, because that's the real experience of it. Understanding something intellectually is one thing, to really get to know something is a whole another and much deeper thing.

Enjoy!