Are There People Without Feelings?

If you’re wondering if there are people without feelings, it’s common to think about psychopaths. We refer to them as individuals with anti social personality disorder, a condition that affects 1% of the population.

• They’re unable to create strong emotional bonds.
• People don’t believe antisocial beings have empathy . They do; there are nuances to it.
• A study conducted at Erasmus University Rotterdam, showed that they have cognitive empathy (they understand what the other person’s feeling). They lack affective empathy (they don’t connect with others at an emotional level).

The cause of alexithymia is an emotional learning disorder or a neurological disorder. They’re people incapable of understanding their own emotional states (and other people’s). They find it extremely difficult to pinpoint exactly how they’re feeling at the moment.

They do love and experience happiness, fear, longing, anguish, and hope. They do have emotions, they experience them in a distorted way and are unable to express them as a consequence.

The answer is no – there’s no such thing as people without feelings. The reality is that all human beings have the ability to experience emotions. Human beings aren’t rational by nature. They’re emotional with the ability to reason.

Every human being feels but not in the same way. Moreover, not everyone uses emotions as a tool to promote coexistence and create enriching connections.