Feeling Emotionally Numb or Empty? Here are some tips
Channel: Psych2Go
Date: 2021-07-22

Emotional numbness, believe it or not, actually boils down to our bodies’ three evolutionary stress responses: fight, flight, or freeze. When you go through any event in life that is extremely taxing in an emotional or physical way, your body’s survival mechanism is activated and causes your psyche to go into the “freeze” mode.

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