<p><a href='https://menstherapy.online/podcasts/truth-about-numbness-emotional-shutdown-modern-men/?utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Blog'>Emotional numbness</a> does not always look like a crisis. For many men, it is quieter, a steady flatness, a sense of static that will not lift no matter how much they push.</p> <p>In this solo episode of the Men's Therapy Online Podcast, <a href='http://linkedin.com/in/marcmazoulay'>Marc Azoulay</a>, therapist, coach, and founder of <a href='https://menstherapy.online/'>Men's Therapy Online</a>, is breaking down one of the most common yet least understood struggles facing modern men: the feeling of being emotionally switched off.</p> <p>Marc argues that what most men are experiencing is not a mindset problem, not laziness, and not something that will pass if they keep grinding harder. It’s a neurological issue rooted in a depleted opioid system, the part of the brain responsible for deep satisfaction, contentment, and enoughness. When that system goes quiet, a man stops feeling alive.</p> <p>He covers anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure), and alexithymia symptoms (difficulty identifying and naming emotions),  that quietly accumulate when a man is always seeking but never arriving. He also walks through the <a href='https://menstherapy.online/podcasts/breaking-through-brain-fog-gen-z/?utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Blog'>mental fog</a> causes that keep men stuck, chronic overstimulation, dopamine hijacking, and the fear of slowing down.</p> <p><em>"Before I got into therapy and coaching and self-improvement, I was dead,"</em> Marc says. <em>"I was doing all the things right,  the gym, dating, building a business, but I just felt completely empty."</em></p> <p>The fix, he explains, requires going inward: <a href='https://menstherapy.online/podcasts/dopamine-detox-digital-trap/#:~:text=Azoulay%20offers%20hope%20in%20the,technology%3B%20it's%20about%20reclaiming%20control.?utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Blog'>starving the dopamine system</a> through deliberate stillness, then learning to feel the body again through somatic awareness. On the other side of the discomfort — the fear, the pain, the noise — is what Marc calls enoughness. A felt sense of safety. Of being present on the earth.</p> <p>For more podcasts, blogs, and to get involved in the Men's Therapy Online Community, visit <a href='http://www.menstherapy.online'>www.menstherapy.online</a>.</p> <p>Follow us on social media: <a href='https://mtr.bio/mens-therapy-online'>https://mtr.bio/mens-therapy-online</a>.</p>