I'd silently shrieked it one too many times and now a mental numbness was setting in.

That force had faded, to be replaced by a physical and mental numbness.

However, the horror and revulsion she still received as the aftermath of the security guard's murder disturbed her much more than the drug-induced mental numbness.

First it had been a frantic feeling, a running to escape, and then it was just a moral and mental numbness that one didn't even notice, a condition that one accepted as the normal way of life.

Instantaneously, she felt the effect of the grenade as an overwhelming wave of mental numbness, as though her brain had been immersed in novocaine.

He did not like this loss of control, this mental numbness that stole the fine edge of his reflexes and alertness.

As his mental numbness dissipated, he noticed aches and twinges everywhere in his body.

In her 2005 book, Nussbaum also mentions the medical theory that trauma, especially prolonged trauma, can elicit the body's production of opioids that produce mental and physical numbness.

Her mental numbness was not far removed from the stasis which had held her after the demon snatched her into the queen's power.

Woodrow had a moment of mental numbness and when he woke from it he heard Wolfgang saying yes, he had met Bluhm once before.