Psychology says people who feel emotionally numb for long stretches aren’t broken or cold — they’re often people who felt too much for too long, and the nervous system eventually found the only exit it had leftrd
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A friend rang me a while back to tell me his father had died. I said the right things. I offered to get on a plane. Then I hung up, made a coffee, and went back to my inbox.
Nothing. No lump in the throat, no delayed ambush in the shower an hour later. Just a flat, well-lit blank, like a room with the furniture taken out.
My first theory was that I had quietly turned into a cold person and somehow missed the memo.
Wrong theory. It usually is.
Going flat is a setting, not a personality
There̵
Nothing. No lump in the throat, no delayed ambush in the shower an hour later. Just a flat, well-lit blank, like a room with the furniture taken out.
My first theory was that I had quietly turned into a cold person and somehow missed the memo.
Wrong theory. It usually is.
Going flat is a setting, not a personality
There̵
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