If you keep asking why do I feel safer being numb, it usually means numbness may be functioning as protection because feeling more fully still sounds more costly than staying partially shut down. Emotional defense mechanisms often feels less like one moment and more like a repeated inner position.
Emotional avoidance often feels safer because distance lowers the immediate intensity of what would otherwise need to be felt or processed.
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