Over time, these situations begin to weigh on you and can lead to a plethora of unhealthy patterns filled with resentment, anger, passive - aggressiveness, emotional reactivity,
a deep feeling of emptiness, disconnection, lack of empathy, hopelessness and a general, underlying sense of anxiety and / or depression.
Not exact matches
One
of the unexpected gifts
of adoption in my life it that it has ultimately left me not with a
feeling of unfulfilled
emptiness, but
of deep connection to the world around me.
Ironically, painful
feelings such as aloneness,
emptiness, anxiety, sadness, jealousy, fear, guilt and shame -
feelings that we tend to see as problems unto themselves — are often symptoms
of a
deeper root cause: physical, emotional and spiritual self - abandonment.
Feelings of emptiness, sadness, and
deep loneliness after the object
of our affection steps back or walks away are only a reflection
of our own lack
of self - love.
The art historian Dore Ashton has written
of the «colonizing
emptiness»
of her images, and indeed, Frankenthaler's best paintings have a complex illusionism that can make the viewer
feel he's gazing into a
deep, quiet space.
More than one - third
of the children in Judith Wallerstein's study showed acute depressive symptoms such as sleeplessness, restlessness, difficulty in concentrating,
deep sighing,
feelings of emptiness, compulsive overeating, and various somatic complaints.
You reach out to friends and family members but there is still this
deep need inside
of you to find a way out
of your confusion, your
feelings of sadness and
emptiness, your anxiety.
You have
feelings of anxiety, a sense
of emptiness and
deep sadness.