Almost everyone on this site is experiencing, has experienced or eventually will experience this.
Our feelings are not as black and white anymore, they’re not strong or weak to the external stimuli imbued upon our senses; really it’s just a numbness, extirpating mental perturbation but concomitantly attenuating sensibility and emotions. It all produces either a state of equanimity or mental chaos, depending on your level of introspection…
Basically, our feelings aren’t as simple as they used to be. There used to be a rational support behind our behaviors and emotions; now there isn’t. It’s all a mess, and we feel numb to the outside world. This numbness either can calm a person, or lead them to ‘mental chaos.’
So my question to you all is: Is this numbness, this inability or this temporary inadequacy to ‘get in touch’ with our emotions good or bad? Or perhaps neither? Is it a good quality or not?
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Numbness is what i beleive being truly suicidal really is, no depression no anger, no worry, just numbness.
To answer your question marine numbness is horrible, you can’t feel all the pain but this also limits you to what good you can feel, it will close you off from possible real relationships, it makes the world unbearable.
But tuis unbearable feeling would e the exhibition of an emotion, if one didn’t care that they didn’t feel anything then they’d have little reason to kill themselves wouldn’t they? Because there’d technically be nothing to be depressed about
I don’t claim to be completley numb as i don’t think anyone can, i just beleive it’s a severe reduction of emotions.
But yes if the person completley lacked feeling then you would be right.