Ep. 36: The Emotional Rollercoaster: Rage, Numbness, and Back Again

About this episode

Adam Nisenson discusses the complex emotional responses men experience after betrayal, emphasizing that these reactions are normal trauma responses.

When your partner cheats, it doesn’t show up as one emotion. It’s all of them, rage, grief, confusion, numbness, hitting you in waves, over and over again. In this episode, Adam Nisenson, The Betrayal Shrink, speaks directly to the emotional chaos betrayed men experience and why this back-and-forth between explosive anger and total shutdown is a normal trauma response, not a character flaw. He breaks down what happens inside your nervous system after betrayal, why your body flips between hype...

People in this episode

Host: Adam Nisenson

Topics covered

• emotional trauma
• betrayal
• mental health
• anger management
• numbness
• grief

Keywords

• cheating
• emotional chaos
• trauma response
• nervous system
• rage
• confusion
• grief

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