It’s certainly one of the reasons, although they also do it to escape or distract from what feels like overwhelming negative emotions.
But yeah, I’m with you on the negative emotions > no emotions. First time I got really depressed, I noticed and celebrated (as much as I was able) when I started being able to feel things again, even though most of those feelings were variations on ‘sad’.
It’s certainly one of the reasons, although they also do it to escape or distract from what feels like overwhelming negative emotions.
But yeah, I’m with you on the negative emotions > no emotions. First time I got really depressed, I noticed and celebrated (as much as I was able) when I started being able to feel things again, even though most of those feelings were variations on ‘sad’.