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“And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.”

World Trying Feelings Voice Water Attention Focus Ears Disappear Curious Emptiness Detachment Numb Bumps Numbness Humming

Book:Madness: A Bipolar Life

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.”

Kind Facts Feelings Emptiness Over You Detachment Disbelief Numbness

Author:Frederick Barthelme

“She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.”

Trying Said Feelings Lust Emptiness Detachment Numbness

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it would be odd to say: I'm not feeling. Or, more to the point: I'm not, I have ceased to be. Where am I?”

Feelings Would Be Remember Fine Odd Emptiness Detachment Numbness

Book:Madness: A Bipolar Life

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.”

Feelings Felt Horrible Emptiness Olympics Pulling

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.”

Facts Feelings Boredom Emptiness Incapacity

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite.”

May Feelings Loss Grief Regret Sorrow Longing Grieving Tension Emptiness Appetite Anguish Mixtures Exhaustion Deprivation Sleeplessness

Book:The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

Source: The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

“It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.”

Needs Feelings Spirit Boredom Emptiness Occupation Distraction Mirages

Author:African Spir

“You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.”

Feels Heart Feelings Fear Alive Trouble Sadness Killing Emptiness

Author:Yasmin Mogahed