Numb seasons end too. Feeling nothing is still a feeling that’s waiting to change.

Flatness is not the absence of an inner life, it is often what happens after a stretch of carrying too much, a kind of shutdown that protects you while it lasts. It is disorienting because there is nothing to point at and no obvious cause. States like this move, even when they feel fixed.

Keep the basic structure going, sleep, food, daylight, one person you speak to, even without the feeling behind it. Do things you used to enjoy without requiring them to be enjoyable yet. If it goes on for weeks, tell a doctor or someone who can help.