What is Emotional Inertia?
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When something is so emotionally overwhelming that it paralyzes you (emotionally) as though the rest of the world is speeding along and you are frozen. This eventually leads to an emotionally slamming of your mind into the proverbial dashboard of life.
When I saw my beloved husband of 32 years naked in our jacuzzi with that 20 year old, I experienced a horrible emotional inertia. When I regained my senses a week later, I ran over him six times with my Hummer.
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