Strategies For Numbness Please.

[Lynda]

Hi everyone,
I'm kinda new, only been here a week or two and I have looked at lots of posts and not really found what I'm looking for, so thought I would ask instead.

I'm looking for strategies/help with numbness. I've been feeling like this for over a year now and have tried the normal stuff - mediation, exercise, doing things I used to love etc. but nothing seems to be working. I'm not depressed, just don't seem to be able to feel anything anymore (good or bad).

Just wondering what others have done or found to help - any feedback/ideas would be much appreciated.

 

[mrsps]

Hi @Lynda, Just wanted to say hi and nice to see another kiwi on here :)

 

[Lynda]

Thanks... Yeah not many of us here

 

[Friday]

If you check out the Disassociation forum (Flashbacks & Disassociation) you may have some more luck. :) As emotional distancing, numbness, etc. tends to be a form of disassociation.

For myself, when I lose my emotions -and I have a few different versions of that- there's nearly always cause / which tends to be orrery dang instrumental in getting my emotions back.

Same token, while that process changes around depending on a lot of different things, my most common problem with all of them is that something usually kicks me right back into being numb / cold & hard / an emotion free zone. So I not only have to work on getting my emotions back, but I also have to deal with the side effects of doing so. The most common, for me, is that everything becomes rage. Either all of my emotions turn into rage, or the only thing I can feel period, is rage. Which very quickly destroys my life, and makes me a danger to myself & others. If I don't have shit in place to deal with the rage & other emotional fallout? Shazaam! Up I pop back into an emotion free zone. Until I try again. And it repeats again. Over and over. Conceptually a lot like a stone skipping across the water. Until I make the final plunge.

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So my questions for you are: What -if anything- changed, or happened, a year ago when you first went numb? And have you had any brief encounters with not being numb, under what circumstance, and what if any fallout happened / may have pushed you back into feeling numb?

The answers to both questions may be "Nope!" No meds (on, off, or changed), no stress, no new trauma, no lifestyle or life changes, absolutely nothing changed a year ago... And there has been no time in the past year you haven't been numb. Because the way I lose my emotions, my patterns, etc. Is only one of many ways / only one place on the disassociation spectrum. You may well be doing things differently & be on a different place.

 

[Lynda]

Thanks for sharing how things are for you.
To answer your questions yes I have had changes in the last year.....life is never stagnant...... I'm just looking for strategies to help deal with the numbness. Like day to day things I could implement to help feel things again