Emotional numbness test

Zoe Pearl humorously images a person resolving to freeze her eggs and herself for the next fifty years, just to buy herself a little more time to figure out the complexities of modern life.

Things People Do When They Feel Emotionally ‘Numb’ | The Mighty #mentalhealth #mentalillness #emotional #numb

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Understanding Mental Health: Nurturing Emotional Well-being

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.

Clare Mackay, Professor of Imaging Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, talks for the first time about her experiences of trichotillomania, an uncontrollable urge to pull out hair, which she has lived with since she was 12. She talks about the stigma and shame that she has felt, how she sought help, and her plans to understand more about this relatively under-researched condition.

The Schacter-Singer theory of emotion, also known as the two-factor theory, suggests there are two key components of emotion: physical arousal and cognitive label.

It’s not just the pain associated with migraines that makes them difficult to handle, it’s the fact that when you have one, you can’t do much else than cope. Throbbing pain and sensitivity to light and sound are just a few of the charming symptoms of everyone’s least favorite headache, which is sometimes accompanied by

Feeling detached or indifferent may be a sign of emotional numbness caused by a medical condition or medication. Here's what to know.