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Reduced affect display, sometimes referred to as emotional blunting or emotional numbing, is a condition of reduced emotional reactivity in an individual. It manifests as a failure to express feelings either verbally or nonverbally, especially when talking about issues that would normally be expected to engage emotions.
Emotional detachment can also be "emotional numbing", [18] "emotional blunting", i.e., dissociation, depersonalization or in its chronic form depersonalization disorder. [19] This type of emotional numbing or blunting is a disconnection from emotion, it is frequently used as a coping survival skill during traumatic childhood events such as ...
Psychic numbing, as it shifts away from the collectivist view, is a common characteristic of people who suffer from PTSD. A general definition of psychic numbing is a diminished response to the external world. [10] There are three elements that attribute to psychic numbing: [10] Loss of interest in activity; detachment from others
Dissociation and emotional numbness are common feelings that emerge with PTSD. Other mood and cognition symptoms include: Trouble concentrating. Negative thoughts and feelings about oneself.
Other times I feel my emotional state means I've lost the ability to empathize. I'm a numb shell of a former compassionate human. It happens every morning. Then I shake it off, wake my kids up for ...
Amotivational syndrome is a chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by signs that are linked to cognitive and emotional states such as detachment, blunted emotion and drives, executive functions like memory and attention, [1] disinterest, passivity, apathy, and a general lack of motivation.
The negative relationship between emotional response and valuation of human lives explains why life is not valued equally. It conceptually explains why compassion fade fails to initiate emotional processes that lead to helping behaviour. Effects of this relationship can be seen through The Singularity Effect and Pseudo-inefficacy. [17]
The sense of emotional numbing, detachment and estrangement from other people can contribute to these, along with contributing to participation in further battle activities or to apathetic reactions when violence is done by others.