I feel empty, dead almost I suppose.

For the last year I have felt very empty, I don't care for anything anymore, family, friends, my pets, even my hobbies. Nothing I do gets me motivated or excited anymore.
Coming to this forum is basically a last resort because everything that I've tried hasn't changed the way I feel. I've tried doing new things out of the norm, forcing myself to go out with friends. I've been to about 6 different doctors and all I got out of them basically was a "it's normal for your age (20)" kind of response which I'm sure it's not.
I even began to experiment with alcohol and some drugs for a while but seeing as there was no change I stopped doing both.

So perhaps if I can find other people that have managed to get out of this situation, I might to if they are willing to offer some advice.

Also, I'm sure that there was nothing that set this off, life was going pretty smoothly but it was almost as if I woke up one morning and my emotions were gone.

What type of doctors have you checked? - cause based on the description your problem seems to be related to "a state of depression"

- first, you should try a "psychologist" and if he considers that counseling can't help - then a "psychiatrist" would be the next step...

past events gradually placed you in this position - and it may seem awful right now (which I'm sure it is cause i've been thru that myself) but it's not a lost cause - if you around this forum you'd see others feeling the same right now - but you can also see older post and users that have felt the same and later they found something that made them feel challenged again (for example -a job, a girlfriend).

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Ok, so you say that this started happening around a year ago - could you please describe your daily activities - how you spend you day, your week...

do you have a girlfriend?

I feel similar to this. I know I'm not depressed because I don't feel sad or anything, I just don't feel anything else either. Nothing gets me excited. Not even my birthday or Christmas. It's been going on for about a year with me too, although it was more gradual with me, my emotions slowly disappeared over the course of a few months. Nothing traumatic or out-of-the-ordinary happened with me either, so I really have no idea what caused it or how to get rid of it and feel something again.
I hope you're okay and hopefully it'll clear up for you soon. ^^"

Feeling the same way. I am trying to stay sober but realizing that it is then that life becomes difficultly different kind of stress of emotions and feelings that I repressed and then I just turned off all feelings. A void of any pleasure in anything. It's a struggle just to anything but lay in bed and go to work. A feeling of boredom. I remember a psychiatris saying a feeling of emptiness goes with did and personality disorders.

This is why I began cutting in 6th grade. I would have no feelings and was desensitized. When I would cut I would feel but not physical pain. Then an overwhelming self hatred and rage would surface. Then when blood was flowing, I felt clinical- like I was examining someone else's arm that was bleeding and not my own.

This was almost 30 years ago. I don't cut but have all the scars to show I used to.

It sounds to me like depression, rather than DPD. If you can, you should see a psychologist or psychiatrist, they will be more open to your problems than most general practitioners are likely to be.

Storme wrote:
I feel similar to this. I know I'm not depressed because I don't feel sad or anything, I just don't feel anything else either.

This is actually typical of depression, a lack of feeling rather than a specific feeling of sadness. Have you spoken with a doctor about it? There are some very effective treatments available.