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  "schema_version": "uw.editorial_geo.v1",
  "article_index": "WAR-023",
  "catalog_id": "WAR-023",
  "language": "en",
  "headline": "Emotional numbness: “I do not feel anything”",
  "description": "Emotional numbness after war: language, relationships, needs, and assessment without compulsory emotion.",
  "master_filename": "ARTICLE_EN.md",
  "master_sha256": "8e9fb3cddce2f5a6a9d76f384bb8a11caa15c1fdbb257ef3ffbc31d9ee1e0083",
  "short_answer": "Feeling nothing establishes neither PTSD, cause, nor absence of affection. Patient information recognises possible numbing and positive-emotion difficulty. Ordinary tasks, resources, and assessment differ; assistance requires neither joy, tears, nor shock.",
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "C01",
      "type": "patient_education",
      "text": "NHS discusses emotional numbing and disconnection in PTSD information.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S1"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "II. Clinical information supplies no single cause for everyone",
        "VIII. A separate health question may need consideration"
      ],
      "attribution": "Previously fully read NHS patient page, bounded paraphrase",
      "limitations": "No phrase-based diagnosis, single cause, universal mechanism/timetable, UKaccessroute or treatment protocol."
    },
    {
      "id": "C02",
      "type": "patient_education",
      "text": "NIMH describes positive-emotion difficulty in clinical context with separate professional assessment.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S2"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "II. Clinical information supplies no single cause for everyone",
        "VIII. A separate health question may need consideration"
      ],
      "attribution": "NIMH publication, bounded paraphrase",
      "limitations": "No compulsory protective switch, self-diagnosis, prognosis, medication change or requirement to exhaust self-help."
    },
    {
      "id": "C03",
      "type": "urgent_medical_boundary",
      "text": "NHS identifies sudden confusion as requiring immediate medical help.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S3"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "VIII. A separate health question may need consideration",
        "What this means in practice"
      ],
      "attribution": "Directly read NHS patient information",
      "limitations": "One boundary, no exhaustive triage, foreign number or numbness explanation for acute changes."
    },
    {
      "id": "C04",
      "type": "authorial_expression_and_relationship_limit",
      "text": "A phrase or outward response cannot give the article knowledge of all feelings, affection, grief, or relationships.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "article_sections": [
        "I. A phrase describes a question rather than the whole person",
        "III. An absent expected response does not test affection or grief",
        "VII. Other people can state limits without testing the person",
        "X. Continuing life need not start with former feelings returning"
      ],
      "attribution": "United Wisdom epistemic and ethical scope boundary",
      "limitations": "Denis is fictional; no scientific emotion model, hidden-affection/cause/personality confirmation or relationship judgement for participants."
    },
    {
      "id": "C05",
      "type": "authorial_optional_participation",
      "text": "A task may have an ordinary result without expected emotion; consent, resources, and helper limits remain.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "article_sections": [
        "IV. An ordinary act need not wait for a particular feeling",
        "VI. Everyday care matters without a grateful emotional response",
        "VII. Other people can state limits without testing the person",
        "X. Continuing life need not start with former feelings returning",
        "What this means in practice"
      ],
      "attribution": "United Wisdom optional practical proposal",
      "limitations": "No activity/escalation programme, therapy, driving/dangerouswork/legalcapacity assessment, cancellation of other needs or effect/access guarantee."
    },
    {
      "id": "C06",
      "type": "authorial_consent_boundary",
      "text": "Care requires neither shock, emotional testing, detailed disclosure, publicity, gratitude, nor prescription alteration.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "article_sections": [
        "I. A phrase describes a question rather than the whole person",
        "II. Clinical information supplies no single cause for everyone",
        "IV. An ordinary act need not wait for a particular feeling",
        "V. Shock and pressure should not be used to awaken feelings",
        "VI. Everyday care matters without a grateful emotional response",
        "VII. Other people can state limits without testing the person",
        "VIII. A separate health question may need consideration",
        "What this means in practice"
      ],
      "attribution": "United Wisdom ethical and competence boundary",
      "limitations": "No substances/exposure/touch/self-treatment, absolute secrecy, universal legal rule or changed protection."
    },
    {
      "id": "C07",
      "type": "religious_philosophical_comparison",
      "text": "Psalm143 on desolation and selected different Confucian advice are compared for respectful limited participation.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S4",
        "S5"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "IX. Poetic desolation and different advice retain their contexts"
      ],
      "attribution": "Checked primary passages with explicit authorial bridge",
      "limitations": "No clinical mechanism/shared therapy, required faith/forgiveness/growth, enemy-directed conduct, hierarchy/typology or guessing instead of voice."
    }
  ],
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "F01",
      "q": "Does feeling nothing establish diagnosis or absent affection?",
      "a": "No such conclusion follows from one phrase. A present question can be discussed without assessing every cause or relationship first.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C01",
        "C02",
        "C04"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "S1",
        "S2"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "I. A phrase describes a question rather than the whole person",
        "II. Clinical information supplies no single cause for everyone",
        "III. An absent expected response does not test affection or grief"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "F02",
      "q": "Must strong emotion be induced to test health?",
      "a": "No shock, substances, images, imposed touch, or compelled account is proposed. A concerning condition deserves suitable consideration.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C06"
      ],
      "source_ids": [],
      "article_sections": [
        "V. Shock and pressure should not be used to awaken feelings",
        "VIII. A separate health question may need consideration",
        "What this means in practice"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "F03",
      "q": "Does task completion cancel further help?",
      "a": "No. It establishes that task, not health or every other capacity.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C05"
      ],
      "source_ids": [],
      "article_sections": [
        "IV. An ordinary act need not wait for a particular feeling",
        "VI. Everyday care matters without a grateful emotional response",
        "X. Continuing life need not start with former feelings returning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "F04",
      "q": "Can sudden confusion be explained as numbness and left to wait?",
      "a": "No. Suitable immediate medical help does not wait for reading, emotion, or a household test.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C03"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "S3"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "VIII. A separate health question may need consideration",
        "What this means in practice"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "S1",
      "author": "National Health Service",
      "title": "PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)",
      "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/ptsd-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/",
      "edition": "Reviewed 8 April 2026; next review 8 April 2029",
      "read_scope": "Entire main written page, symptoms/causes/assessment/treatment/support and metadata, web lines 13–196; original symptoms URL redirects here",
      "role": "Emotional numbing/disconnection in PTSD patient information, not an individual cause or diagnosis",
      "limitations": "No diagnosis by recognising a term; UK access procedures, child-specific advice and treatment protocols not reproduced",
      "rights_status": "UNKNOWN",
      "rights_notes": "Short own paraphrase and link, specific licence not independently established; no images or full source page stored.",
      "read_date": "2026-10-18",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch A author"
    },
    {
      "id": "S2",
      "author": "National Institute of Mental Health",
      "title": "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder",
      "url": "https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd",
      "edition": "NIH publication 23-MH-8124; revised 2023",
      "read_scope": "Main written publication and Reprints already read in this task, lines 21–154; specific risk/protection section lines 86–107 checked for WAR-005",
      "role": "Difficulty experiencing positive emotions within clinical context, with separate professional assessment",
      "limitations": "No individual diagnosis, symptom scale, local pathway or treatment plan",
      "rights_status": "TEXT_REUSE_ALLOWED_WITH_ATTRIBUTION",
      "rights_notes": "Exact publication Reprints permits text reuse with NIMH attribution; images excluded.",
      "read_date": "2026-10-18",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch A author"
    },
    {
      "id": "S3",
      "author": "National Health Service",
      "title": "Sudden confusion (delirium)",
      "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/symptoms/confusion/",
      "edition": "Reviewed 28 May 2024; next review 28 May 2027",
      "read_scope": "Entire short substantive page, web lines 13–76",
      "role": "Sudden confusion requires immediate medical help",
      "limitations": "No foreign emergency number, home diagnostic test or exhaustive triage",
      "rights_status": "UNKNOWN",
      "rights_notes": "Brief own paraphrase and link; no image/full page copied; specific licence not independently established.",
      "read_date": "2026-10-18",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch A author"
    },
    {
      "id": "S4",
      "author": "Psalms / King James Version",
      "title": "Psalm 143 KJV, short fragment of 143:4",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20143&version=KJV",
      "edition": "KJV displayed by Bible Gateway, read October 18, 2026",
      "read_scope": "Complete psalm lines 25–44 and KJV/Public Domain labels 21–50, including religious appeal, judgement and enemy-directed final verse",
      "role": "Primary poetic desolation as limited authorial image of asking without a required feeling",
      "limitations": "Not diagnosis/mechanism, belief requirement, guaranteed health course, judgement or enemy-directed conduct norm",
      "rights_status": "KJV_PAGE_MARKED_PUBLIC_DOMAIN; GLOBAL_JURISDICTIONS_NOT_ASSESSED",
      "rights_notes": "Six-word fragment used twice in English, own Russian translations; no whole-psalm republication or worldwide jurisdictional conclusion.",
      "read_date": "2026-10-18",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch A author"
    },
    {
      "rights_status": "UNKNOWN_GLOBAL; PROJECT_GUTENBERG_TERMS_READ",
      "read_date": "2026-10-18",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch A author",
      "id": "S5",
      "author": "Confucius / James Legge (translator)",
      "title": "The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects, Book XI, chapter XXI in this edition",
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4094/pg4094-images.html",
      "edition": "Project Gutenberg ebook 4094; checked edition heading and numbering, not silently equated with other chapter numbering",
      "read_scope": "Book XI heading lines 2014–2015 and complete chosen dialogue lines 2167–2189 read; edition terms lines 4482–4515 already read in this task",
      "role": "Different advice to two pupils in the selected historical dialogue, limited authorial question about fitting participation",
      "limitations": "No personality typology, diagnosis, efficacy, imposed hierarchy, compelled obedience or guessing without recipient voice",
      "rights_notes": "Bounded own paraphrase only here, no new direct quotation or work republication; previously read Gutenberg terms/local-law caveat retained, no worldwide public-domain conclusion."
    }
  ],
  "entities": [
    {
      "name": "Emotional numbness",
      "type": "Description without automatic diagnosis"
    },
    {
      "name": "Expression",
      "type": "Not complete relationship knowledge"
    },
    {
      "name": "Consent",
      "type": "No emotional test or gratitude debt"
    },
    {
      "name": "Psalm143",
      "type": "Poetic desolation, no enemy-directed norms"
    },
    {
      "name": "Confucius",
      "type": "Different advice in Legge edition"
    }
  ],
  "retrieval_limits": [
    "No diagnosis, single mechanism, protective-switch certainty or timetable.",
    "No emotional shock, exposure, substances or prescription changes.",
    "No compelled account, tears, joy, touch, gratitude or publicity.",
    "No capacity determination from a household task.",
    "No acute-care delay for emotion or calm.",
    "No access, confidentiality, efficacy or future-course guarantee.",
    "Denis is fictional; primary texts supply bounded ethical images."
  ],
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    "identifier": "UW:WAR-023:en",
    "headline": "Emotional numbness: “I do not feel anything”",
    "inLanguage": "en",
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        "@type": "Person",
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}