Emotionally numb

People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings. - Lori Gottlieb Emotional numbness can be used to shield yourself from having to deal with your feelings. It may provide you temporary relief but it will never make the feelings go away. Eventually, emotional numbness will get in the way of you processing good and bad feelings.

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Emotional numbing is like a feeling of being emotionally “blank” or “distant.” It happens when someone finds it really hard to feel or show emotions, especially difficult emotions like sadness or anger. Learn seven ways to stop feeling emotionally numb and recover emotinally.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.