Key points

Emptiness is a quiet signal that your emotions may have been overlooked in childhood.

Feeling empty often drives unhealthy coping, like overeating or overdrinking.

What feels missing is your own emotional validation; it’s not a flaw in who you are.

You can begin to fill the emptiness by reconnecting with your own feelings.

It’s like I have no emotions; I’m numb a lot of the time.

Something is missing in me.

I have no idea how I feel about anything.

Sometimes my chest feels hollow.

I feel empty inside.

What might seem like five unrelated statements is actually five different people describing the same feeling. It’s a difficult emotion to identify, and even harder to put into words. Everyone says it differently because there is no standard label for it. But for these f

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