Dear Maya55:

You don’t read to me “weird and going crazy”. Feeling numb is not weird or crazy, it can simply be a break that the brain takes, a break from strong emotions. Don’t be alarmed by feeling numb, as in thinking: am I weird or going crazy?

Humans and other animals go numb when in distress. In nature it is called the Freeze response to perceived danger (Flight, Fight and Freeze, the three responses). The perceived danger is the emotional pain that you expect.

But that emotional pain that you fear, you already experienced it and survived it. It only feels dangerous, it is not really dangerous, isn’t it?

anita