losing my empathy....good or bad...?

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After my recent shutdown I feel like I'm losing a little bit of my empathy....would this be considered as a good thing or a bad thing...?am I becoming a more balanced human being...?

Not enough information to answer the question.

What do you mean by losing empathy? Can you give an example?

I could be mistaking empathy for something else but I could no longer feel how other peoples feels towards me...I mean I know they are angry or disappointed at me but somehow I don't seem to care...used to be I would feel so low like I would stare at a blank screen or the ceiling for a long time trying to figure out how to avoid committing mistakes which was impossible because everything I did seems to be wrong...It felt like I was being set up for failure....that was the cause of my initial (shutdown) for lack of a better word...it felt like I was almost catatonic for 3 days straight...I only recovered from it after making my resignation letter....problem is I cannot leave my company yet because they still don't have anyone to replace me....so I'm stuck working here without any motivation... They just transfer me to another branch....problem is I know I'm not wanted here, I know I'm a burden to them...before I won't help because I was afraid of making mistakes now I don't help just because I don't want to...and I've just lied recently without feeling any guilt at all....its not like I never lied before but I would feel massive amounts of shame afterwards...but somehow I don't feel bad because although to me this not natural but I've seen and known many people doing these things and yet it seems natural to them....I once thought that continuous stress makes me more autistic but I now think it actually makes me more NT....hope this makes sense...

Sorry, I'm unable to connect with what you said, maybe somebody else can.

It's alright even I can't connect with what I've said...

I feel, that as long as you, at least, convey empathy/sympathy for major things, that you're all right.

Don't sweat the small stuff. Even saints screw up from time to time.

What's important isn't what other people feel about you, but what you feel about yourself. If you can feel good about yourself, then it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks. The only emotions that really matter in a persons life are their own.

Feel great about yourself, even if other people don't want you to.

I don't know to say I ever had much empathy on that note but if I did I pretty well lost it a long time ago. Now I just don't care that much and probably have a sour personality.

Losing empathy? Or losing sympathy? Or losing the ability to feel or feel strongly? Or some mild depression? Or something that held you back from feeling? I hope that's not the type that give warm or heavy discomfort on your chest...


Something similar rarely happens to me. It can only be triggered by those I cared enough not to ignore. This is why I wanna disconnect from them.

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