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What's wrong with me?

Hi
I'm 18 years old and got some problems. I think I might have some kind of identity crisis or brain disease.
I feel quite empty all the time, sometimes I don't feel like I am person at all, well it's very difficult to explain,
but I don't really have a feeling "personal sameness and continuity" (found that phrase at wikipedia).
It kind of feels like my brain activity decreases a little day by day, it's been going on for like 2 years or something.

I'm not a very social person, I have a few friends at college, but I spend most of my free time at home by myself or my family. I'm a very silent person when I'm with people, not so much with my family, but with others, not because I don't have the courage to speak, I'm just to "empty" inside to have anything to say almost all the time.

I'm not what you would call a totally emotionally dead person, I do feel joy, for example when I'm at football games and my team scores or wins, or some anger if I die in a xbox game :) etc, but I have to say I'm a little emotionally numb, for example I wish I were more worried when my grandpa is in the hospital or stuff like that.

Any help or advice is very appreciated, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.
Thank you
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hey just keep rolling with that good grades is well good LOL
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Can't think of a particular incident that caused it, no deaths in my family so far, all my grandparents are alive etc.

And it isn't that bad, that I can't speak to people. If something comes to my mind I have no trouble saying it out loud.
I have no problems in general answering questions or stuff like that. However I'm worse at comming up with things / stories or something by myself.
Gah, It's hard to explain :S
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Hey,
I know what you mean. I'm near enough the same. Do you think you could work out why you began to feel like this, what caused it? Did something happen to cause you to feel 'empty' because you wanted to escape it? It might be worthwhile trying to have a think about. Also maybe you could write down how you feel or whats going on and show someone if you can't actually speak to them. Hope you're okay xx
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forgot to say:
I don't have any problems at school, in fact I got mostly A's. I'm particularly good with math.

I do however sometimes have to trouble reading stuff, then I have to read the same sentence twice or three times to understand it.
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