Nothing's wrong with you. This emotional numbness--or detachment, if you will--is a common occurrence when it comes to death and dying. It's unlikely that you're "losing" your emotions; it's more likely that you're dissociating yourself from your mother to protect yourself.

Hope everything goes well for you and your mother, fellow brony.

  On 2012-11-22 at 9:30 PM, Aquila said:

Nothing's wrong with you. This emotional numbness--or detachment, if you will--is a common occurrence when it comes to death and dying. It's unlikely that you're "losing" your emotions; it's more likely that you're dissociating yourself from your mother to protect yourself.

 

Hope everything goes well for you and your mother, fellow brony.

Though I have a been like this for a long time now. I was only told about the operation four days ago. I don't think I have dissociated myself from my mother. I was told a while a go that I was going to die from arthritis and I didn't care then either. My grandfarther died two years ago and I was extremely close to him and I didn't care then and its not just death its other things. I just don't get sad anymore. I just feel empty.

i know how you feel, when my grandmother died, i just had an empty feel, its like i have no emotions any more, i never really recovered, im sorry about your loss dude

I understand the feeling. I've felt with a lot of death in my life.

My brother has cancer at the moment. The most traumatic experience is still the murder of my wife though.

After my wife died I felt no remorse and Only felt Pain. I did awful things, things I'd rather not mention because I'm sure you'd all think differently of me if I said them. Lets just say I got involved in the mafia and leave it at that.

That's normal. You go into a denial and shock when you first think someone has died (especially in your case when it was more of an assumption rather than a fact). Most people claim that the death really doesn't hit them until the funeral.

  On 2012-11-22 at 11:27 PM, Shankveld said:

That's normal. You go into a denial and shock when you first think someone has died (especially in your case when it was more of an assumption rather than a fact). Most people claim that the death really doesn't hit them until the funeral.

it's amazing we have the same brain o_____o

I was about to say that