u/Nix_0202

I've been recovering from a depressive episode earlier in life and it feels like a major roadblock in that journey is my tendency to numb or intellectulize my emotions away. I can still feel flashes of deep feeling occasionally so I know they're in there somewhere, but the numbing had become so automatic while depressed that now even when I want to feel things it's like my mind can't help but run away and only feel the most surface level emotions. Nothing feels emotionally authentic if that makes semse.

Anyone dealt with this before? What has helped?