QUESTION:
What should a person do if he finds that his emotions have stopped working, and he can’t feel joy or express love? For example, everyone around him is dancing on Simchas Torah and they are happy, but he can’t get himself to be happy. What happened? As a child he was able to be joyous and show emotions, and later in life the emotions close down and now he can’t get himself to feel those emotions of joy, love, etc. What can be done about this?
ANSWER:
There is no such thing as emotions that “stop working”. Rather, emotions can become weakened. A person needs to find how he is still capable of that emotion, and then he should expand it further.
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