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Encyclopedia > Emptiness
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Emptiness is described as an elusive and disturbing feeling of numbness, inability to feel anything emotionally, or not having any purpose. It can be better described as a situation where a certain lack or lacks in one's life overtake the emotional and mental focus in an obsessive, sometimes subconscious manner. Feelings of emptiness often accompany depression, loneliness, despair, or other mental/emotional disorders such as borderline personality disorder. It may seek expression through different types of self-harming behaviors, and in more extreme cases, suicide. Image File history File links Circle-question-red. ... The word emptiness can occur in different contexts: In Psychology, emptiness is an emotion. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mental redirects here. ... Look up Obsession in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article may contain original research or unverified claims. ... Depression, or a depressed mood, may in everyday English refer to a state of melancholia, unhappiness or sadness, or to a relatively minor downturn in mood that may last only a few hours or days. ... Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. ... Despair in common usage is the condition of having abandoned hope. ... Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is defined within psychiatry and related psychological fields as a disorder characterized primarily by emotional dysregulation, extreme black and white thinking (believing that something is one of only two possible things, and ignoring any possible in-betweens), and turbulent relationships. ... Self-harm (SH) is deliberate injury to ones own body. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...


Emptiness often involves alienation, be it temporary or acquired, and sometimes self-hatred. Persons tending to feel emptiness often come from problematic familial backgrounds. If at all there was a family nucleus, their needs were ignored, they were considered second class, they experienced many separations, or there was outright abuse[citation needed]. A feeling of emptiness may also be temporary, as a result of separation, death of a loved one, or other significant changes to one's life. In sociology and critical social theory, alienation refers to the individuals estrangement from traditional community and others in general. ... It has been suggested that Self-loathing be merged into this article or section. ... Abuse is a general term for the use or treatment of something (person, thing, idea, etc. ... Separation may refer to a several different subjects: In chemistry, separation refers to the separation process. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Life (disambiguation), Lives (disambiguation) or Living (disambiguation), Living Things (disambiguation). ...


Signs of emptiness can be:

  • Not wanting anything, especially material goods and money
  • Ignoring people and getting frustrated with what would not normally irritate a normal person
  • Self inflicted pain without gaining social or mental satisfaction
  • Trying strange things in the hope that it may give one temporary satisfaction e.g hitting oneself
  • Fooling oneself into believing he is satisfied or insane which gives him satisfaction
  • No longer talking, having lost hope and having no enthusiasm or motivation towards anything
  • Staring forwards for long periods of time
  • Pretending things to oneself

Dealing with emptiness

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Treatment of feelings of emptiness may be similar to treatment of depression. Some people may find psychotherapy beneficial. Self-occupation is important if the afflicted person is to hold off the negative effects, and avoid the natural aggravation of the untreated emotion. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Look up depression in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... // Psychotherapy is a range of techniques based on dialogue, communication and behavior change and which are designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family). ...


In cases of unemployed individuals, getting into the work market may help them enrich their lives, although pitfalls such as in the case of depression may prevent them from mustering the efforts of searching for a job. In such cases it is advisable to seek professional job placement help. Governmental agencies may offer help in this domain as well. An 1837 political cartoon about unemployment in the United States. ...

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Encyclopedia: Emptiness (410 words)
This mode is called emptiness because it's empty of the presuppositions we usually add to experience to make sense of it: the stories and world-views we fashion to explain who we are and the world we live in.
If, however, you can adopt the emptiness mode — by not acting on or reacting to the anger, but simply watching it as a series of events, in and of themselves — you can see that the anger is empty of anything worth identifying with or possessing.
Emptiness is that which is form, form is that which is emptiness.
Emptiness (8210 words)
That house is empty”, or “That is a empty house”, the meaning of his words, is that nothing is in the house or nobody is living in the house, does not mean the house is not existent.
This is not the emptiness of Mahayana’s doctrine.
THE emptiness in Mahayana Buddhistic doctrine is not isolated, intransigent, obstruct.
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