Emotional Detachment Disorder and its impact on my life
Looking out to the horizon T wo years ago, I had never even heard of Emotional Detachment Disorder (sometimes called Emotional Deprivation Disorder). I came across this little known mental health condition while looking on Google one day in April 2019 to try and find answers to the confused questions going on in my head at the time. What I learnt was nothing short of an epiphany. As I began to browse the first article I came across, I noticed that my most common personality traits as well as the symptoms for which I was seeking redress, were being described to some degree of accuracy. I went on to research as many articles about EDD as I could, and I realised, perhaps for the first time in my life, just how different my feelings and emotions were in relation to a normal person's. It finally dawned on me just how significantly my life had been impacted by this condition. That is what eventually led me to the conclusion that I was going to need some therapy to try and sort my ...