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Why You Might Feel Numb Instead of Sad After a Breakup

I have not cried about my breakup yet and it has been two months and everyone expects me to be sad but I just feel nothing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes the psyche chooses numbness over feeling when the anticipated pain exceeds your perceived capacity to survive it.

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