Psychological Shock

Something has happened. Something that was too much, too sudden, too violent — too far beyond what your soul could take in at that moment. And now you are no longer quite present. You move, you may even be speaking, you function in a strangely mechanical way — but inwardly it is as though someone has drawn a thick curtain down. The world feels far away. Sounds arrive muffled. Colours have lost their depth. You feel — and at the same time you feel nothing. You may be crying, or you cannot cry. You are trembling, or you are strangely frozen. Sometimes you have the sense of watching yourself from outside, as though all of this were happening to someone else.