I feel a huge disconnect from other humans, anyone else?

[rockslide26]

I know I don't post here much anymore due to school and work, but for those of you who aren't familiar with me, let me preface this by saying the following; I'm a relatively normal guy. Great, now we can begin.

Recently, I haven't been able to deal with anyone except for my girlfriend. Everyone else is "two dimensional" to me, and I have been struggling to emotionally bond with others. I can't think of them as people, really they're just there. I'm not horribly excited to see any of my friends, and when I do see them, I find myself silently disagreeing with them, they also are two dimensional, as if I'm surrounded by a race of sentient cardboard cutouts. Interaction with others frustrates me, and I actively want to avoid it as much as I can. I feel almost depressed, but I'm not sad. I feel emotion normally, but the same things don't make me happy anymore. I find it easier to come home, do my work, and sink into a game of Midieval II: Total War than to go out with friends and the like. I do the same things over and over, and it's driving me insane. My parents don't feel like real people either.

Now, before I end this post, I need to say, my girlfriend is the most three dimensional figure I know. We do most everything together when we can see each other, and she's absolutely amazing. Everyone else is a problem for me, however.

Has anyone else ever experienced something similar, where other people don't feel "real" and interaction can be frustrating and awkward?

tl;dr I feel like the world around me is as realistic as a James Bond movie

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[Waru]

just think

you're 2D too!

I'm often plagued by thinking that people are too "three dimensional" and they're just a hastle to keep track of multiple people and they arent simple enough to understand well enough to know them

oh well

[Skull Candy]

For some reason, I always think that I am an anti-social outcast. If you think so, that's fine.

In real life, I feel soul-less, and what some people would call "creepy."

[Snow2]

/b/ should answer this one

[Mardalf]

I always think the worst of people even my friends basically "guilty until proven innocent" and this many times makes me just feel disgusted with people in general its something I try not to do but can't help

[Machaty]

I don't mean to sound like an starfish, but maybe your playing to many video games. Or just spending to much time on electronics in general. Some of my friends seem to lose their social skills when they get absorbed in video games. As I said before I do not mean to offend anyone.

[Clone v.117]

I don't mean to sound like an starfish, but maybe your playing to many video games. Or just spending to much time on electronics in general. Some of my friends seem to lose their social skills when they get absorbed in video games. As I said before I do not mean to offend anyone.

Maybe as in definitely.

[rockslide26]

Maybe as in definitely.

I don't play many games, I apologize for using a bad example. I meant that I tend to do things inside instead of going anywhere, and the first thing that popped into my hear as an example of that was Total War. I also paint, write, and read moreso than I play games.

[naturemon]

I feel the exact same way, and the girl I WISH was my girlfriend is also the only person I see as being "real". Sucks when you feel like you're out of place no matter where you are.

[rockslide26]

I feel the exact same way, and the girl I WISH was my girlfriend is also the only person I see as being "real". Sucks when you feel like you're out of place no matter where you are.

I really wish that nobody had to feel this way, it sucks to think that nothing around you is real. I guess my girlfriend is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment. Nobody else feels so human

Edit: I have on-and-off anxiety and I've been doing some reading. Sometimes anxiety can cause depersonalization where other people become objects to you and not living things. I hope this doesn't last long. It's also odd that my girlfriend is the one "real" person

[Snow2]

And now, a response from /b/

[naturemon]

I really wish that nobody had to feel this way, it sucks to think that nothing around you is real. I guess my girlfriend is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment. Nobody else feels so human

Well, at least you have her. You could be in a much darker place like myself. It's not fun when the only person you see as real is so close yet so far from where you'd actually like to be with them. You should be very grateful you have a place in someone's eyes.

[Cool Boi]

[SeventhSandwich]

I'm surrounded by a race of sentient cardboard cutouts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism_syndrome

[rockslide26]

Well, at least you have her. You could be in a much darker place like myself. It's not fun when the only person you see as real is so close yet so far from where you'd actually like to be with them. You should be very grateful you have a place in someone's eyes.

I'm incredibly grateful, I ran into her in passing today and we ended up together for an hour or so, she makes me feel like I have a place with her, but she goes to a different school and because of parental issues and work I barely get to see her.

I guess you'd want to be checked out for anxiety, I have it and it's probably the root of this. Also, don't give up on this girl. Also, little things count tremendously with women, saying a simple good morning every day will net you major points