I don't know what it is about me, but I just don't seem to share any connection with anything. Today one of my dogs got bitten by rattlesnake, he's at the vet right now and it's not looking good. I'm not even the least bit shaken up about it, I see it as an inconvenience, all I though about when it happened was "oh great now I can't go watch click because I have a dying dog to deal with".The sad thing is, it's not just dogs. I can't remember a single funeral I was at that I felt genuinly sad, I may have shed a tear here and there, but that was because I saw everybody else crying and it got to me. Usually at a funeral I'm just thinking of things I could have been doing if this inconvenient death hadden't happened. When my girlfriend who I really cared deeply about left me for another man, I just sort of whent about my business like usual, didn't really care much. I acted like I cared for a little while, but that was just because I felt like I had to, the hole time I was arguing with her I felt like I was just putting up a show so I didn't seem so cold. I don't know what it is, I guess I'm just a selfish, cold, heartless bastard.
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I'm a cold heartless person
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I'm exactly the same way. I don't really feel emotions. Even when I am feeling emotional, it isn't very strong. Deaths never hurt me or anything. We're really fit for the military. I think there was another thread like this a while back, maybe you can find some more responses there (if you can find it).
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I take it back, today after we got the dead dog back to my house, and opened the box up to place one of it's favorite toys inside, my mom startin balling, and I tried not to but I started to really tear up.
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Sometimes we THINK we should feel a certain way in certain situations, like funerals for example, and when we don't we wonder why..........however, just because you SHOULD feel a certain way, or seen to be anyway, doesn't mean you do actually feel like that. I can say that i cried a lot more at a freinds funeral than a relatives funeral, cos i really would miss my friend, the relative, well we never got on really and i wouldn't miss her, tho there were people there piling on the sympathy and fake tears, i just didn't see the point of doing the same.The way you reacted today shows that you DO feel when its a situation that actually tugs on your heart strings, feel the way you feel when you feel it, fake emotions etc are a waste of time. I dont' think you are cold hearted hon.
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But dont feel bad about not watching Click, it was retarded.
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Just the fact that you're concerned about not being conerned shows you're not cold or heartless.
Although, people who have no emotions or sympathy, manipulate people, and care only about themselves have a very special name among psychiatrists...psychopath, lol. -
Although, people who have no emotions or sympathy, manipulate people, and care only about themselvesAre you saying that those people have no self-awareness, or that they do, but they just don't care?
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psychopaths have self-awareness, psychotics don't. Psychopaths are normal people except they are incapable of feeling or caring for anyone but themselves, seeing people as objects to be manipulated.Supposedly, one of the Columbine killers, Eric Harris, was a psyhcopath.
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Psychopath is a very restrictive term because it leaves no room for gray area. Would a psychopath be someone completely devoid of empathy and concern for others? Maybe they question the way the are and want to improve but don't view things the same way as others, or maybe they truly don't relate and see murder as inconsequential. Psychopath is such a ridiculously hard term to define because we really don't know what the minds of others are and how can we possibly figure out the minds of others when we can't always understand ourselves. It's really just a generalization for individuals who kill and for whatever host of reasons don't show much concern or remorse for what they've done.
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I feel like I should feel in a certain way in some situations too. I just... Don't. If someone from my family starts crying and needs to talk to me about something, I can't help thinking: Goddamnit I'd rather do so many other stuff right now than listen to him/her rant about problems.I don't really feel sympathy with people, even though I think I should. But in some cases I do feel emotional about stuff. Dunno... I guess some people just are that way.
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We have something in common.I too don't get all tearyeyed and upset at funerals, yeah It's sad that someone died, but...I'm not gonna start crying.And frankly, lol....I'd kill my dog if I had to. I know that sounds mean, but I said "If I had to". I just don't get upset very easily.But when it comes to girls it is a different story.. :P