Why are my emotions delayed?

Depression and anxiety are two of the most common causes. Severe levels of acute elevated stress or nervousness can also trigger feelings of emotional numbness. Post-traumatic stress disorder, which can be tied to depression and anxiety, can cause you to feel numb, too. Some medications can also cause numbness.

What is secondary emotion?

Definition. Secondary emotions are emotional reactions we have to other emotions. For example, a person may feel ashamed as a result of becoming anxious or sad. In this case, anxiety would be the primary emotion while shame would be the secondary emotion.

What does constant déjà vu mean?

Being busy, tired, and a little bit stressed out. People who are exhausted or stressed tend to experience déjà vu more. This is probably because fatigue and stress are connected with what likely causes most cases of déjà vu: memory.

How do you describe a feeling that something is bad?

Fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen. Most of the rest of them can be used to describe a good feeling, though they are more commonly used to describe a bad feeling: A strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant.

What is it called when you have no feelings?

Callosity. Definition: lack of feeling or capacity for emotion. No list of words concerning itself with feelings would be complete without a word for the state of not having them. Happily, the English language is rich in words for paucity of emotion. We have heartlessness, cold-blooded, apathetic, stolid, impassivity, and a number of others.

What happens when you name your feelings?

“All sorts of stuff that’s swirling around and feeling painful can start to feel a bit more manageable,” once you’ve pinned the feeling down and named it.

What is another word for obscure feeling?

Desiderium, and More Obscure Feeling Words 1 Alexithymia. Alexithymia is a fairly recent word, showing up in English in the mid-1970s. 2 All-overish. Sometimes we have need of a word that can describe the middle ground between well and unwell, and for those occasions we have the word all-overish. 3 Callosity.