death in family yet i feel nothing

[wiggles]

my granmother is on life support but i dont feel any sorrow, I dont understand.

Anyone ever experience this before?

 

[deleted user 1]

Perhaps you're already in a state of grief. I was in a state like that a couple of years ago, where no matter what happens you can't feel any lower. Although, there is a psychological condition where you are totally unresponsive as if nothing ever happened, that's not good.

 

[Buzzard]

my granmother is on life support but i dont feel any sorrow, I dont understand.

Anyone ever experience this before?

I did when my great-grandparents died. I've known them for more than 20 years so we were pretty close, closer than with my grandparents, but I didn't feel any sadness when they passed on. Probably because I see death as a liberation. I was happy for them. Being sad for someone who lived a good life is a form of selfishness in my eyes. You're sad because you will miss them instead of being happy for them because they can finally rest.
But I'm glad I'm not the only one. Lot's of people don't understand it and it makes you feel even weirder than you normally do.
Sorry for your grandmother. I hope she gets through or have a quick, painless death. But you're definitly not alone.

 

[Kinetik]

Depression can cause you to feel numb and emotionless, so it could be that. Asperger syndrome can mimic its symptoms though, especially with regards to a lack of empathy.

I am also unable to feel grief for someone else, but I'm just down.

 

[Lea]

I did when my great-grandparents died. I've known them for more than 20 years so we were pretty close, closer than with my grandparents, but I didn't feel any sadness when they passed on. Probably because I see death as a liberation. I was happy for them. Being sad for someone who lived a good life is a form of selfishness in my eyes. You're sad because you will miss them instead of being happy for them because they can finally rest.
But I'm glad I'm not the only one. Lot's of people don't understand it and it makes you feel even weirder than you normally do.
Sorry for your grandmother. I hope she gets through or have a quick, painless death. But you're definitly not alone.

You're absolutely wrong saying it's selfish to be sorry for someone who died. In my case when my grandmother died, I knew she had a happy life and I wasn't really sorry for her that's why, but in the moment she died I was striken really hard. Maybe it was irational, but I felt terrible gap and emptiness in my life. Which was also irrational because I didn't get on with her very well most of the time or can't say we had that close bond. But still I grew up with her in my life and suddenly as if that part of my life was taken away.. the living thing which she used to be, the whole personality, her opinions, or love suddenly turned into a dead piece of meat and was taken away. I got over it with time but that moment, or a couple of weeks was excruciating (especially when coupled up with my other problems).