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When You Cannot Feel Emotions Anymore

I have not cried in three years and I feel like there is a wall inside me that nothing can break through anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Prolonged emotional suppression has created a protective barrier that now prevents access to necessary feelings.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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