numbly

Examples of numbing

numbing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

He also coined the word ' de-affectualization ' to refer to ' emotional numbing ', a frequent complaint amongst patients suffering with the condition.
In 1980, symptoms were limited mainly to dreams, intrusive images, phobias, numbing, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and so on.
There is some distracting repetition and so much detail on the famines that it is almost numbing.
The consequence of the dream experience is emotional numbing and not the cause of the experience or the dream plot.
And indeed, a form of distancing and numbing may be needed in facing the end of life and the impending separation from loved ones.
The crystallization of such a personality style includes psychological constriction, massive numbing, rage, and, in some cases, identification with an aggressive perpetrator.
If the victims did not experience such images, the explanation was that they were in the denial or numbing phase of the traumatic syndrome.
In the psychiatric literature, dissociation is characterized by the victim having subjective experiences of emotional numbing, derealization, depersonalization, and perceptual alterations during the trauma.
The second dimension involved defensive efforts to deny the trauma, including emotional numbing, amnesia, and other attempts to suppress or avoid the trauma.
Dewey's pragmatism, too, offers a more hopeful guide to action than the numbing irrelevance of contemporary cultural theory.
Sertraline was superior to placebo on 15 of 17 symptoms, especially in the numbing and hyperarousal clusters.
For the other scales, rates of decline were 21 % for avoidance, 21 % for numbing and 38 % for hyperarousal, yet treatment effect remained significant in the model.
Freud's ideas about the patient's defensive efforts to control the repetition were assimilated into the denial or numbing phase of the two-dimensional model.
A composite score is constructed using the total of the frequency plus intensity scores for the 17 symptoms of reexperiencing of the traumatic event, avoidance 0 numbing, and increased arousal.
The poor region would allocate some of the increase in labor to producing good 2 and compete with the rich country, numbing the impact on the terms-of-trade.
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