~It's so different from anxiety or phobia though, isn't it? For instance, I don't leave the house as much as would be good for me these days, but I don't think it's the result of being agoraphobic or even any kind of phobic. I'm not afraid to go, and I don't have anxiety when I do; I just don't do it. It's that feeling of being shut down... I'm neither afraid nor unafraid; I'm just neither. Neither fight nor flight. 
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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