How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?
The worst feelings are the warm, anxious burning that portends your heart breaking followed by the wave of numbness that asphyxiates your soul.
Dissociation is numbness and nothingness; it is a feeling of being lost; it is floating on a cloud that threatens to suffocate; it is automatic speech and action without awareness or control; it is lo...
I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.
When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
.."I let people walk away, the one who loved me, the one who cares for me, I push them to their limits but the saddest part is...I felt nothing, too much pain makes me numb..
Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.
Parched by the deprivation of your love for so long made me forget what a cup brimming with love, on my lips, felt like. Everything that now wets it, only wrinkles it with a bland taste.
I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in...
Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.