Inability to feel happiness or pleasure; feeling numb.
Victims often report a feeling of perpetual defilement, an inability to feel clean, an overwhelming sense of vulnerability, and a paralyzing feeling of lack of control over their lives.
To shock us with our inability to feel especially shocked by anything.
That is the inability to feel pleasure, a chief symptom of depression.
Complete inability to feel anything or to connect with anyone was the point where suicide became more of a reality for me.
A genetic cause of a rare inherited condition that leaves people with an inability to feel physical pain has been discovered by scientists.
But there's one key trait that distinguishes narcissists from everyone else: an absence of interest in other people and the inability to feel for them.
It's that essentially human quality of Nixon's that everyone connects with in some way: that fear, that social insecurity, that inability to feel loved or popular".
Conversely, too much inhibition can be personally destructive, resulting in the neurotic inability to feel or express certain emotions, or in sexual frigidity or impotence.
Sentimentality was not to be trusted: "The ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel," he wrote.
Sometimes a person who is able to become physiologically aroused in the normal way develops an inability to feel comfortable with the idea of having sex.
