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When CBT Success Feels Like Emotional Numbness

Three years of CBT helped my depression but now I feel emotionally flat and I miss the intensity even though it was painful.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Over-regulation of difficult emotions can dampen the full spectrum of feeling, creating a different kind of disconnection from life.

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