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Feb 27, 2017 · While desired solitude feels peaceful, creative, and restorative, loneliness feels draining, distracting, and upsetting. It's possible to feel lonely when one has "friends" they can't quite...
- What Is Emotional Numbness?
- What Causes Emotional Numbness?
- The Danger of Emotional Numbness
- Why Is It ‘The Secret illness’?
- 13 Signs You’Re Struggling with Emotional Numbness
- How to Overcome Emotional Numbness
- Emotional Numbness Q&A
Emotional numbness is a defense mechanism employed by the mind to avoid intense and overwhelming emotions such as fear, hatred, jealousy, and grief. When you go emotionally numb, you lose the ability to feel and experience your emotions on a psychological and emotional level. In this sense, emotional numbness is often clinically connected with diss...
As with most issues, emotional numbness goes back to childhood and the way we were raised by our parents. Being abused by our parents physically, emotionally, sexually, psychologically, or spiritually can contribute towards our inability to self-regulate emotions, which results in emotional numbness. Feeling alienated or disconnected from one or bo...
If you even have the slightest inkling that you might be emotionally numb, it’s time to listen up. Emotional numbness is not a small character flaw or minor area of self-growth to improve in – it is a serious problem which needs to be addressed immediately. Speaking from experience, emotional numbness has formed the root of many issues I have faced...
I call emotional numbness the secret illness because it is so pervasive in our society, and so socially acceptable, that it often flies underneath the radar. In a society that largely doesn’t know how to handle strong emotions in healthy ways, being stoic and “level-headed” is valued – yet this very same calm and collected facade often conceals unh...
Emotional detachment is not always a bad thing. It comes in handy when you need to maintain boundaries, avoid undesired energy overload from others, and even help others in crisis situations. But emotional detachment turns into its unhealthy twin (emotional numbness) when it becomes an automatic inner defense mechanism. “What’s so great about feeli...
Like any psychological defense mechanism, emotional numbing can be complex to deal with, and often requires support from a trained professional such as a therapist. If you feel that emotional numbness is significantly impairing your life, please do an act of self-compassion and seek out support either locally or online (there are even free counseli...
Here are some commonly asked questions about emotional numbness. Hopefully they’ll answer any remaining concerns or thoughts you may have about this topic: *** I hope this article opens up new possibilities for you – or at least inspires you to take emotional numbness seriously. I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to face this issue becaus...
Mar 28, 2023 · Do you often feel confused by your feelings, or like they are unmanageable? How good are you at identifying, naming, validating, and expressing your emotions?
One-sided friendships can leave you confused and hurt. You demonstrate an interest in their well-being, but they show little interest in you and your needs, unless you make an effort to draw...
Nov 14, 2024 · Enter the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, the brainchild of writer John Koenig, who is here to give you words for the feelings you may not have even known you were having. Here are 40 words to describe your emotions. n. the awareness of how little of the world you’ll experience.
Oct 14, 2021 · Feeling abandoned by someone you care about may lead you to feel overwhelmed, confused, and devastated. In some cases, someone may temporarily not be available to you because they’re dealing ...
Feb 5, 2022 · Sudden confusion, sometimes called delirium or encephalopathy, can be a sign of many health problems. It comes on quickly, within hours or days. It’s different from dementia (like Alzheimer’s...
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