and other sadness in your body
The body that ran out. Tiredness sleep doesn't fix, and the emptiness left when something's been used up.
EXHAUSTED. The body run out of what was keeping it going. The deeper tiredness sleep doesn't cure. What comes when the demand on the system has outpaced its supply for too long. Often the visible marker of caregiver collapse or the body refusing to keep performing what it can't sustain.
HOLLOW. The space inside that used to be filled. Something was there, and now it isn't. The post-event quiet that has nothing on the other side of it. Distinct from Numb: Hollow knows what's gone; Numb has lost access to the knowing.
NUMB. The body's reception turned off. No feeling reaches through, including the feelings you'd want to know you have. Often a protection move after sustained pain: when feeling stops being possible, the system shuts the receiver down. Hard to know you're in until you're partway out.
DEPLETED. Body wrung out. SPENT. Energy gone. DRAINED. The body emptied of charge. WIPED. The body flat after. FRIED. The system overcooked. BURNT-OUT. Exhausted past recovery without rest. WEARY. Tired with time on it. BONE-TIRED. Exhausted in the structure. SAPPED. The energy slowly leaked out. LISTLESS. Tired without direction. LANGUID. The body slowed past urgency. EMPTY NEST. The Hollow that comes when children leave. EMPTY. Hollow without ceremony. VACANT. The lights on but no one there. VOID. Hollow that touches nothing. HOLLOWED-OUT. Carved out from the inside. BEREFT. Hollow with named loss. DESOLATE. Hollow with no warmth nearby. DEADENED. The body deliberately switched off. DULL. Numb without crisis. BLUNTED. Numb with edges softened off. ANHEDONIC. Pleasure stopped landing.
This arc is the cost of staying attached in a world where things leave. It starts in depletion, passes through every form of losing, and ends in mourning that keeps loving what's gone.