Disintegrated feelings from childhood trauma may, in adulthood, also result in psychological numbness that prevents the individual from coping with everyday difficulties, as is illustrated by the following case.
Treatment options exist when neuropathy results in positive symptoms such as pain, but there is a significant lack of treatments for negative symptoms such as numbness and weakness.
For those who had lost loved ones to disease on board the ship before it arrived at quarantine, the period of incarceration passed in a state of grief or numbness.
Initially, the sustained effects of sertraline over placebo are first seen in anger\irritability, then at week 6 for hypervigilance, emotional upset at reminders, anhedonia, detachment and numbness.
It became so still all around that it seemed to me as if with the chirp of crickets a numbness was stealing over the pale sky.
For instance, if one's goal is to alleviate a state of numbness and emptiness, creating physical pain by cutting or burning oneself is certainly an efficient technique.
However, there is substantial morbidity associated with the procedure, including scarring, discomfort, numbness, limited shoulder movement, lymphedema in the arm, and breast edema (8).
She is left in a state of total numbness.
