Emotionally numb, life has no flavor, color, sounds, or sense of connection, from the inside out....this I know from experience. It is an opaque, and cardboard figure of nonexistence and life won't allow you to stay there forever. I couldn't run or hide from myself. There was no amount of over or under compensation that would drowned the over sensitivity that I felt. Believe me I tried for a long time. So many times I compared myself to those others who seemed to have things "roll off their backs" but why? Seems now at this point in my own life, that my sensitivities have a lot to teach me about myself and others and how connected we all are.
But, that's my two cents worth, and my experience today. I'm hoping this will be helpful to someone who reads it.

all my best to you all
Jade