Feeling Disconnected? Here’s How to Overcome Emotional Numbness and Start Feeling Again My Personal Experience with Emotional Numbness I remember sitting in my room, staring at the wall, knowing I should feel something like sadness, happiness, anger but there was nothing. Just emptiness. It was as if my emotions had been muted, leaving me disconnected from the world and even from myself. This has been the case for much of my adult life because of the traumatic experiences and during bouts of heavy depression I've had.   Friends would check in, and I’d force a smile, but inside, I felt hollow. I didn’t know how to explain it, and worse, I didn’t know how to fix it. I wanted to cry, to feel something, but the emotions wouldn’t come. It was terrifying, and for a long time, I thought I was broken. But through research, therapy, and small intentional actions, I learned that emotional numbness is not a permanent state—it’s something that can be worked through. If you’re feeling disconne...