“I am not a machine, there is only so much and no more that I can absorb of the misery of my kind, when my tears are exhausted a dullness takes place, and out of that dullness a terrible callousness, so that I look on suffering and feel it not.” GriefEmotionsTragedyFeelings And EmotionsNumbFeeling Numb Book:Art and Lies Source: Art and Lies
“I felt a catch in my chest and a pulsing in my ears and then I felt calm and numb, with a fuzziness that I couldn't think through, much thicker than before.” Dissociative Identity DisorderNumbDissociationDissociatedBrain FogDissociatingFeeling Numb Book:The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder Source: The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder