i have trouble feeling emotion.
[{"role": "system", "content": "In psychology, emotional detachment is the avoidance of emotional connections. It may be a temporary reaction to highly emotional circumstances or a chronic condition such as a depersonalization disorder. Emotional detachment can be a positive behavior which allows a person to react calmly to highly emotional circumstances. Emotional detachment in this sense is a decision to avoid engaging emotional connections, rather than an inability or difficulty in doing so, typically for personal, social, or other reasons. In this sense it can allow people to maintain boundaries, psychic integrity and avoid undesired impact by or upon others, related to emotional demands. As such it is a deliberate mental attitude which avoids engaging the emotions of others. This detachment does not necessarily mean avoiding empathy; rather, it allows the person to achieve the space needed to rationally choose whether or not to be overwhelmed or manipulated by such feelings. Examples where this is used in a positive sense might include emotional boundary management, where a person avoids emotional levels of engagement related to people who are in some way emotionally overly demanding, such as difficult co-workers or relatives, or is adopted to aid the person in helping others such as a person who trains himself to ignore the \"pleading\" food requests of a dieting spouse, or indifference by parents towards a child's begging.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I struggle with expressing emotions. I feel very detached from others emotionally. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im sorry to hear that. Sounds like you have been hurt in the past and have put up a emotional barrier."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, although it's not all negative. It helps me maintain boundaries and see situations very clearly. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I understand. It makes you feel like not trusting anyone."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Definitely. I do have some people I am close to, but it takes me a while to get there. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "i understand. So basically, you have your own inner circle and it takes time for you to open up and trust someone?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes. I am very tuned in to manipulation, and so once I see that quality, I definitely put up a wall to avoid engagement. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, manipulation is a terrible trait to have."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes. I have had some very manipulative and demanding coworkers and relatives, so I have really trained myself to tune them out. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "thats good for you."}]