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Why repeated exposure to death can create emotional numbness

I've been to seven funerals in two years and I'm starting to feel numb to death which scares me because I used to care so much.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psyche protects itself from repeated trauma through disconnection, but this defense carries its own cost.

Ideas that help explain it
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