Sentences with phrase «emotionally numb»

People with PTSD usually have persistent frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal and feel emotionally numb, especially with people they were once close to.

If your partner has experienced a traumatic event in her past, this may lead her to be withdrawn and feel emotionally numb, causing her to avoid meaningful communication.

Percy's protagonist is an emotionally numb scion of a socially elite New Orleans family.

Because of this many puppies that come from puppy mills are emotionally numb and don't know how to play with toys, other dogs or humans.

But in his own life, Delaney is emotionally numb, haunted by the slaughters of the Great War.

SYNOPSIS: After the death of his wife, an emotionally numb man begins an unlikely friendship with a vending machine company's customer service rep. Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal) loses his wife in a car accident in Demolition's opening scene.

You're now too emotionally numb to feel the sting of defeat the next seven or eight times you try.

The actor stars as Davis Mitchell, a successful New York investment banker who's become so emotionally numb that he doesn't know how to react when his wife Julia (Heather Lind) dies in a car accident — one that he escaped with barely a scratch.

Screen Daily's Jonathan Romney finds it to be a «coolly - executed but emotionally numb exercise.»

If you donâ $ ™ t appreciate your successes along the way, â $ you risk becoming emotionally numb, nonreactive, â $ he explains.

They may feel emotionally numb and cut off from the people closest to them.

I then isolated myself; Becoming extremely emotionally numb (and lots of other symptoms) Though I couldn't feel anything, anyone did to me, I somehow felt incredibly sympathetic still to others?!

DETROIT — For years, Detroit residents have grown sadly accustomed to — and emotionally numbed by — reports in the local media of teen - agers gunning each other down over matters as trivial as a refusal to hand over a fashionable item of clothing.

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Consider the doctors and other health care practitioners who eat junk food all day because they don't have time to eat a salad, drink too much at night to numb the pain of what they endure at work each day, are constantly sleep deprived, and suffer emotionally from the loneliness that stems from unhealthy relationships.

This realistic treatment makes Patriots Day an incredibly effective antidote to the numbing indifference encouraged by purely factual, emotionally distant news reports.

If I become skilled at numbing, suppressing, or silencing my feelings, I might be particularly skilled at working in professions that are too emotionally intense for others.