YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Does anyone else have no emotions?

I've lived through a lot of horrible events in my life. All 4 grandparents are dead, uncle committed suicide, 4 friends overdosed, 9/11, the stars wars prequels etc. yet I have no emotional reaction to it.
I remember 9/11, the day it happened and the weeks following, everyone was so tore up about it. Whether it was sadness, or anger everyone reacted but me. I listen to the podcast and there's not even a hint of emotion out of me during the darkest and heaviest parts of the conversation.
Is this normal? Am I human? I'd really like to know

Elizabeth Wurtzel who wrote "Prozac Nation mentioned the same non-reaction to 9/11....

I remember not being able to relate to that, at the time, but (extreme) numbness and self-absorption are two of the hallmarks of depression, right? Not unfamiliar now...

And just learned from the podcasts that cutting (self harm) is one way the sufferer uses to try to either feel something, or to concentrate/focus the inner pain on something external and tangible...