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When emotional numbness protects and imprisons

I cannot cry even when terrible things happen and people think I am cold but really I am terrified that if I start I will never stop

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Defensive dissociation from feeling creates secondary shame and relational isolation.

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