Cycle of Narcissism: Black Sheep Become Empaths Who Attract Narcs (and s...

 

Ah yes, this makes a lot of sense to me.  Since I was brought up in a time war, virtually any pain at all was encoded as "no pain".  So then in my twenties, I had this character structure where I did not register my experiences on an emotional level.  I had to really, really work, over decades to be able to feel emotion, and even now it is often a default for me not to feel.