Do you have days/periods when you feel emotionally numb?

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I sometimes have numb days when I'm under a lot of stress.

Yeah, sometimes I don't feel anything and then sometimes I'm the opposite, really over-emotional.

I have been feeling emotionally dead for most of december, Christmas has been especially bad, getting sick on christmas
eve and missing out on the festivities the next day really sucked, but I just didn't have the energy or will to care.

I never have them.

i never feel "emotional". i can feel "glad" or "worried" or "cranky". i am not sure if they are emotions or simple attitudes.
i do not have rich emotions like the ones i suspect produce expressions on people's faces that i do not understand.
my doctor that spent 2 years with me said i had a "poverty of emotions".

i never really ever felt anything except glad or worried or annoyed or neutral in a very simple way.
i almost always feel "neutral". i suppose it is contentedness that i feel. i have no interest much in what is happening outside my world, and that is because i have a poverty of emotion i guess.

i never understood what "elated" means let alone felt the feeling. i never felt "crushed" and i can not think of what that means.
i do not feel emotionally numb though. in order to feel "numb" you must be feeling the absence of something that you previously felt as a constant. like a numb finger. you have always felt your finger so it is strange to you when you can not feel it and that is described as "numb".

if you never had that finger, you would not feel numbness at the fact that you no longer perceive it.
i never had a tentacle growing from my head, so i do not feel numbness relating to it's non perception in my brain.

so i do not feel numb, but i think most people would feel numb if they were suddenly cast into my state of mind from where they once lived.