Feelings?

I used to have the pleasure (?) of working with the mental health units of a  large hospital.  Occasionally an individual from one of the units would come through my office and ask me, in the course of conversation, how I was.  Generally my response was "fine."  "Oh, fine is not a feeling" was the 'appropriate' psychiatric response, "how do you really feel?"  Today my response would be 'numb.'