Hey everyone. So, Reddit is of course not the place to look for a diagnosis for anything, but a friend of mine has felt concerned about some mental health symptoms he’s been having and since what he’s experiencing seems to be a bit odd, I thought it might be worth posting to see if anyone has experienced similar symptoms or knows someone who has, and if so, what they’ve done to address them. 

My friend describes feeling very emotionally numb and cut off from all feelings. Lacking empathy, even. However, sometimes he says he does feel very in touch with his emotions and empathy in a way that is overwhelming and these times he feels overwhelming and deep emotions. These two different states don’t seem to happen to him regularly or rapidly in a way that might be something like bipolar for example, or something like BPD/EUPD. He says he mostly feels very numb the vast majority of the time and then when he can feel, it’s so overwhelming he has to shut it off within a day or two again in order to just function in daily life. 

I feel concerned for him. Has anyone heard of symptoms like these? Thanks in advance everyone.