Emotionally numb

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.

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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Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by your feelings that the only thing you can do is shut them off? Rather than fall into an all-encompassing despair, you just decide that you won’t feel anything? Not feeling anything at all is certainly a welcome idea when the only other option is sadness or despair. That’s why sometimes it feels easier to shut down than to sink into those awful feelings. Shutting down your emotions makes you feel like you have control when you may not.

Emotional numbness is a coping mechanism many people use when dealing with physical or emotional trauma, overwhelming stress, depression, or anxiety.