Hi B.B.,
I’m sorry to hear about the break-up, and especially about the emotional state, or lack of it, that you are finding yourself in. It can feel so powerless, to be cut off from yourself and everything around you.
I will read your second post again a few times, because i don’t understand it completely.

I’m just wondering, the emotional numbness, do you think it is a way to protect yourself, that all the emotions would be so strong that you don’t know how to handle it?

Even though, you say that you’ve grown a lot and learned about your emotions, so i guess i might be wrong with my question, it sounds like you do know how to handle emotions and also strong ones..

Don’t know, just trying to understand it.

(i experience a lot of emotional numbness myself, over other reasons, and it feels so empty, so desperate)

Reading, walking, gardening (just starting to have my own allotment – so this is the first time that i have my own little patch of land to experiment on, so excited!), crocheting, sometimes trying new recipes (and other times being very lazy with cooking haha), watching inspiring movies or documentaries, meditating, dancing.

It’s in the past year that i’ve actually discovered, how important it is to do things that we like. Before I never had the reflex to do that, how crazy! Many of those activities still don’t come easily, so it’s nice to have reminders about it, like this topic 🙂

I have the same as Rhiannon, I’ve also deleted my facebook account at the moment (it’s a pity that you can come back so easily) because it really doesn’t make me happy. But on the other hand, i am in so many groups and news sites, that i find a lot of links to interesting articles, which is a pity to miss…