The True Cost of Emotional Numbing

We live in an age of silent battles— where healing is prescribed in capsules, and feeling becomes

something to fix. But what if, in numbing the pain, we also numb the very thing that

makes us human? This is a conversation about what it truly costs to quiet the emotions.

If you decide to go down the path of antidepressants, you must understand what you’re stepping

into. These are not harmless pills. They don’t simply balance or lift

you. They alter you. They chemically blunt your emotions until the natural

pulse of human feeling is dulled beyond recognition. The laughter that once came freely

becomes thin, rehearsed. Tears dry up, even when your heart aches to release