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Measuring emotional ‘emptiness’ could help manage this potentially life-threatening experience

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par Shona Joyce Herron, Senior Clinical Psychologist, UCL

Imagine a hollowness deep in your chest, a vacant space where feelings should be. Imagine being numb and devoid of all emotion, happy or sad – with any sensations simply passing right through you. You are watching the world go by from behind a screen – so disconnected that you feel a million miles away from people you care about the most.

This is how hundreds of people have described the existential feeling of emotional “emptiness”. Perhaps some aspects may feel familiar to you. After all,…

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