That Girl Who Runs Out Tears

But if you find that you can't cry, that you can't feel anything, what then?

The inability to feel anything, neither sadness nor anything else, is one of the danger signs in melancholic depression. Melancholia is a severe form of depressive illness. Melancholic patients would typically be deeply sad. Since the Ancients, profound sadness, often without an apparent cause, has screamed "melancholia." And screamed it loudly because such patients are at risk of suicide.

But beyond deep sadness there is feeling . . . nothing. This really should sound an alarm.