An almost total emotional numbness had stolen over him in the past two days.

"But there are other problems, such as alienation, emotional numbness, guilt and moral pain that you need psychotherapy for."

A passive response is often characterized by an emotional numbness or ignorance of a stressor.

Perhaps a sort of protective emotional numbness set in.

Her mind was in a turmoil as her emotional numbness was beginning to wear thin.

It was his intent to savor the delicious emotional numbness for as long as possible.

Her calm feeling became an emotional numbness, and in a dull monotone she told him the simple truth: "I don't know."

Two or three hours passed in this distressing and unproductive way, then at last we reached a point of emotional numbness.

Not being able to feel or express emotions toward family, friends, and loved ones (emotional numbness).

But a significant number suffer either chronic mental distress or a more immediate emotional numbness that can isolate them from others.