ME.

It happens occasionally with traumatic events. However it doesn't ever linger for me so I am unconcerned it happens

Yup.

I did at a time and then I realized I have control over all of my emotions and it's truly my choice on how long all that negative BS in this world affects me

I live that.

It happens a lot with antidepressants for some people, though it doesn't sound like that's specifically what you mean. I've experienced it without them, though it's been some time. If you feel like talking might help, don't hesitate.

Yes, a couple of times. After the divorce from my first husband and after the death of my second. Both times lasted about 6 months.

After a very stressful period, both at work and in my first marriage, I suffered a bout with depression and had to take an antidepressant. Te antidepressant left me emotionally numb and that was worse than the depression and I stopped taking it.

I remember going numb emotionally as a teenager after I read "1984". It affected me a great deal. I've never reread it simply because I don't want to go through that again.

Hell yes. I am seeming unconcerned on the outside but extremely sensitive inside. I think it is a defense mechanism for psychological preservation.

After I found out husband was cheating. After the crying ended I was totally numb. No emotions. The feelings I’d had for him were gone, never to return.

I have no idea what it would even feel like so I can't give an answer, but I would hope not.

Yes, especially in regards of relationships.
I only worry when it seems to alter my relationship with my kids.
Everyone and everything else: meh.

Absolutely.

I believe that "going numb" is a defense mechanism. For some of us, it's
our minds going into protection mode, especially after a trauma.
After repeated battering, sometimes our hearts do the same. Okay, it's still
our minds, but you know what I mean.

Yes. It's a survival mechanism, kicks in after a traumatic even or if the trauma is re-triggered or if I'm under too much stress. My mind shuts down to protect itself.

Yes actually. When I woke up on November 9, 2016. Still waiting to recover.

in 1982

Yes, I have felt this multiple times throughout the years and for extended periods of time. I consider it “going dormant”, as I hope to awake from it after an appropriate amount of time.

Asolutely....was married for 23 years ...the life was drained from me ..to the point of feeling anxious and unhappy.Life started to lose it 's point ..despite all the blessings that I should have embraced .
But now .. divorced ..and not regretting a single day. Love my life ..and living again.

No, but sometimes I wish I could.

I was overloaded and shut down after my wife passed.

Yes, for years when I lived with my parents. I think it's the only way I survived my mother's narcissism.

Yeah, the last 18 months to two years of my marriage. It's a long story but didn't really appreciate where I was mentally and emotionally at the time until I was out of it, nor did I appreciate the long term effects and damage that period of time did

I have been numb emotionally, the first time was after my first wife died. I became very introverted kept the curtains closed in a sence i was like the Pink Floyd tune i was comfortably numb in my own thinking. the thinking was numb an far from free.