I have the same problem, but more generally... I pretty much ALWAYS have delayed emotional reactions, except for me there is no pattern as to how long it will take me to start feeling something. Sometimes the feelings never come even though I know that they are there. But often I sit waiting for it, or confused as to why I know I feel a certain way but I can't actually feel it. I identify entirely with goingonhope's description of how it affects my life!!! People think I am cool and nothing much phases me... or that I am cold. Oh I do feel... just not when I should! On the other side of the coin, fear and those reactions that come with it are ever hypervigilant in me, so I don't seem to have a happy medium! It takes me a lot of hard work trying to piece together the emotion that does eventually come to which event, if it was recent or if it is an emotional flashback of the past. I have to really think around my brain to make sense of myself. But it comes naturally after a while. |