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Emotional numbing is an internal protective mechanism. You cope with feeling too much by feeling nothing at all. This is wonderfully adaptive in the short-term—it gets you through intensely stressful ...

According to National Institute of Mental Health research, people who repress their feelings fall into many uncomfortable situations from illness to envy. The thing we must remember is that feelings ...