Emotional numbness

• Card 1

  Emotional numbness is one of the more common forms of dissociation. It can feel like watching your own life from behind glass — you know something should feel a certain way, but the feeling itself seems muted or missing.

• Card 2

  This can look like

  • Difficulty feeling joy, sadness or excitement, even at significant moments
  • Going through the motions of daily life without much felt sense of it
  • Struggling to answer 'how do you feel?' because nothing comes up clearly
  • Feeling flat or 'grey' for stretches of time

• Card 3

  Numbness is not the absence of feeling — it is usually feeling turned down, as protection from something that would otherwise be too intense.

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