Trying to fill a void

Read my article which reveals ways to protect yourself from mental illness, maintain a healthy brain and potentially cure depression. One of the top motivations is power. An emotional void can be described various ways — numbness, a sense of nothingness, lack of excitement, lack of purpose, hopelessness, isolation, and feelings of being disconnected, lost or confused. When those needs are not met, we experience an emotional void. When those needs are not met in childhood, there will be emotional voids in adulthood. In other words, most of the emotional voids we experience as adults are the result of not having our emotional needs satisfied when we were children.

I experienced a dating drought at the beginning of this year. My phone stopped ringing, my Match. I felt real loneliness for the first time since my ex-husband moved out two years ago. It was strange. My whole being seemed to wither. I contributed meagerly to conversations.

The truth is that anytime you try to distract yourself from feeling what you're feeling, Food, drugs, sex -- these are the worst ways to fill a void.
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