Comments on: 10 Telltale Signs That You Are Emotionally Numb

By: meself

meself — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:47:36 +0000

I am #9 and #10
I sometimes feel exuberant about something but it fades quickly.
I don’t think I ever feel love, or being loved, maybe I need to be shown more or told more
I cry when some one or a pet dies, but i dont feel the sadness.
I will feel ecstatic about something and a thrill but then it suddenly goes, as if it never happened.
I have felt nothing, but tried to feel something.

By: Jamillah

Jamillah — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:08:32 +0000

In reply to CA. Im experiencing emotional numbness to this boy named royal I go to my school with and everyone knows about the situation, I act it as a shield to not feel any emotions towards him even if my situation with him gets worse because it was overwhelming for me and it made me feel a range of emotions. And now, i began to feel depleted and emotionaless. I feel like every activity i do is pointless and i don't have passion for it. i only get on devices to numb my emotions like, scrolling through websites, also i isolate myself and barely want to talk to any of my friends, or engage in any conversations with them. Plus, i feel too disconnected and materially ostracized to be fitting in with anybody or socializing anyway. And to illistrate that, royal is a critical and judgemental person when its me expressing myself, socializing with people, just to make me worry about remorse to disturb that. And thats why I feel numb.

By: Jamillah

Jamillah — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:03:13 +0000

By: Jonice

Jonice — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:51:58 +0000

In reply to alexa. Dear Alexa, I really encourage you to talk with a professional. Maybe your school counselor would be a good place to start? If you can't do it right now, keep it in mind as a goal at your first opportunity, okay?

By: alexa

alexa — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 23:24:49 +0000

i really relate to this blog im 15 years old and i always feel like no one really understands me and when people ask me if im okay i dont how to explain this feeling because i dont feel anything. i dont feel happy or sad or any emotions i just get angry easily because of the smallest things. my father used to tell me that showing emotion means you are weak and most of my childhood i was forced to be an adult and to be strong even when it’s hard. im an overthinker and i usually keep quiet about things because i know they wouldnt understand.

By: Jonice

Jonice — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:30:04 +0000

In reply to CA. Dear CA, marijuana is, for many, the drug of avoidance. It allows people to avoid their feelings, problems, and real lives. I'm sorry you have had to cope with so much neglect in your life. I love how you said it is not too late for you because I agree! Now is your chance to focus on yourself and to give yourself what you never got.

By: CA

CA — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:01:48 +0000

Dr. Jonice, I have spent a good part of my morning reading your blogs, great information. I am a child with CEN, from my parents, whom I just learned on my 50th birthday, had lied to me about my genesis. A stepmother and father, raised me from age 5, and I learned (at 50) that my father was not a biological parent. My bio Mother split when I was 15 months old. So, the realization of being born to people who did not want children was real! I do cope with that for my own self healing. Issues are with relationship/marriage of 19 years. As one of your posts said, you cannot easily identify CEN within others. While I knew my husband had a traumatic childhood, we seemed very compatible in the beginning. After our 1st child, things went downhill, in the respect of, my feelings and emotions were discredited. I then learned that he was smoking marijuana daily, when I thought he as outside smoking cigs. I began to recognize his behavior changes of withdrawal towards our young family.
I took your test and can see that I have brought into my adulthood the sense of worthlessness, as how I was raised by my parents. I took any/all attention from my husband, and lacked respect for myself. We had a 2nd child, born with Down syndrome. I feel I have raised this child, along with our first child alone. My husband continues to use daily marijuana and denies that he uses it for escape. He laughs and ridicules people who use pot, or other drugs as escape. I value marriage and this is my 2nd marriage. I don’t feel divorce is the answer. We do have some things in common, but all in all, over 19 years, we have not built a relationship together. I don’t think my husband knows how. He does not cope well. Some days I hold on by a thread, as I don’t see myself single and raising a child with special needs. She is almost of age, and this chapter might be over for me. I feel I have found this information (CEN) too late in life for my relationship, but not for me. I began focusing on ME, 2 years ago, after I learned that everyone around me had lied about my genesis, WHO I was and WHERE I came from. And the common responses was “YOU didn’t need to know”, or “IT WAS for your own good”. Even those who claim to love you, will look you right in the face and LIE, for their own comfort. THANK YOU from bringing such an intense topic into the light~ Be Well.

By: Jonice

Jonice — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:18:02 +0000

In reply to Trisha. That may be a load of old feelings collected together and weighing on you. See if you can sit with that feeling and put any words to it.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:21:39 +0000

I can strongly identify with items 3, 4, 6 and 9. As for item 5, it’s not quite true that I feel nothing. It’s a sense of discomfort, as if something hard and heavy is trapped inside of me but it has no way of getting let it out; it’s similar to feeling nauseous but unable to throw up, for lack of a better comparison.

By: Jacqueline Yancey-Willis

Jacqueline Yancey-Willis — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:59:35 +0000

this article is so me!