Thank you for this encouragement, Lauren! Now when I said set really low expectations, I didn’t mean to say you should also slack off. Emotional numbness, or detachment, is experienced differently by different people: You may feel a lingering sense of boredom and emptiness like you are not able to show or feel any emotions. At that point, you will have re-opened the door to experience life’s joy, abundance, and aliveness—things that a hidden part of you has long been yearning for. Have a blessed week!

It Is also a great aid in understanding what has happened to me. But when it comes down to it, you’ve only been comparing yourself with others—a trite maxim, but usually overlooked.

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In psychology, the term “affect phobia” is used to describe the tendency for some people to avoid the feelings that they believe are intolerable. Sure you can study great people that have come before us—and you should as you don’t necessarily have to reinvent the wheel—but it’s tempting to hold on to that oh-so-nice feeling of having learned something new. This is the most amazing article I have ever read. However, I am stronger now, and I no longer need you.".

this voice in my head never shuts up.

If we tell ourselves that our life and work is insignificant, they will be, because our thoughts inform what we end up believing. I probably should’ve been paying more attention to the road, but the air was filled with whimsy, and I couldn’t help but take it all in.

How dense or heavy is it? People don’t realize that just because it’s a fad, it should work for them.

If you don’t find a meaning to your life, no one else will. When another unpleasant situation—especially if it’s not as awful as the previous one—you automatically assume it’s not going to get better, but at least you can bear it and it’s better than the older one. 1. Because I don’t want to leave the impression that you should keep persisting on a project even though it’s painfully obvious it’s going nowhere.

What an encouraging word today, Lauren!

A loving relationship can be an oasis in uncertain times, but nurturing it requires attention, honesty, openness, vulnerability, and gratitude. Not even the enemy’s lies.

Dark roads + cold weather + snow + ice = no bueno for me being behind the wheel. The issue a lot of people don’t resolve with themselves is that they don’t want to do the heavy lifting, the hard work required to take them from a state of stagnation to one of daily, meaningful activity. Honestly, I get told frequently how pretty I am, but that does not mean I don't feel empty.

However, it is important to remember that your numbness grew out of a place of pain and tenderness and was nothing but a desperate attempt to survive. Being abused and hurt by others, later became to being alone at home with nobody to cry on or tell them how I feel.

But here’s the good news: We don’t have to believe the enemy’s lies.

To say you feel like nothing’s happening in your life does not make sense. To say you feel like nothing’s happening in your life does not make sense. I can relate to a lot of the thoughts in it. Thanks, Lauren!

Pause for a moment and think about these things.

You’re procrastinating getting things done because you are totally loathing an … “I am emotionally intense, but mostly I feel nothing, empty, detached from reality and those around me…”. Any insight would be appreciated. I don’t like driving at night period, especially in the cold, and never with inclement weather.

They leave me feeling rather frustrated and unsafe.

Although the pattern started off as a way of protecting you from others, it can eventually morph into you hiding from yourself or denying your needs altogether.

It is so difficult to find the right words to tell someone about it, now I'll be able to use this.

Through the construction of emotional skills and resilience, you can begin to feel safe enough to dip your feet into the deep waters of feeling. I hold a great job down, have a beautiful family, am raising incredible children, but still feel empty. But it doesn’t just stop there. I don’t like driving at night, especially during the winter. And most important, they underestimate the power of simply trying again after failing. Even so-called helplines and so-called specialists.

They’re fascinating. })(); We had one of those when I was little! Of course those things are also important, don’t get me wrong.

Take it as a sign that something needs to change. Proverbs 4:23 warns us: “be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.” And it’s exactly true.

Thank you Imo for your brilliant article, encapsulating my situation in a way I haven't found before. God’s glorious promises for our lives are so good! Individuals experiencing depersonalization feel as if they are an outside observer of themselves and often report feeling a loss of control over their thoughts or actions. That it isn’t an objective truth you’re making it to be?

Ive let everyone down. That you feel that way might only be the result of a few (or many) events that seemed to have connived to lead you to believe that indeed, you’re just a piece of nothing.

So pleased you took the time to research and write this item. My family locks up everything all the time.

When it made contact with the earth, the flake vanished, dissolving into the thousands of others that were already there.

But eventually, it becomes deadening. I looked out my window in awe as I watched them silently disappear. I realize hard times are a part of life and can even be turned into good things. That said, you cannot invalidate someone's pain based on the mask they show the world. That it isn’t an objective truth you’re making it to be?

You’re simply doing your thing. At this point, allow yourself to entertain this sign, this idea—even though you’re not taking immediate steps yet.

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