Emotional numbness
The term Emotional numbness refers to act of a person not responding to a situation by producing emotions that are relevant to the situation, instead, reacting in a way that is irrelevant to the situation, or not displaying emotional responsiveness. These individuals are facing emotional problems. Emotional problems are novice and diverse, influencing every facet of human functioning. The emotional problems manifests in distortions in the individual’s psychic, somatic, interpersonal, and community life. Manifestations of emotional illness are hence divergent, involving the total human being. In view of this totality of disturbance, it is arbitrary if not incorrect, to dissociate psychic from interpersonal, social, and psychophysiological difficulties, aspects of which are usually concurrent, although they are sometimes not obvious.