A fork of Rural Dictionary
When you are so dead that you have accepted your face and died on the inside.
Me: Yo. I failed my math test and my mom is gonna kill me. Friend: you must be dying on the inside.
mental trauma that on the surface looks like it numbs the reaction to strong imaginery/events, but in reality is a constant struggle that the mind has adapted and kept on the inside. if strong enough, it might lead to a breakdown. special cases might lead to suicide
person 1: yo have you heard about person 3? he's been missing for 3 days straight, did they catch a cold person 2: ever since his parents divorced, he's been struggling with toxic parenting projecting their hate for one another into person 3. yesterday I found his pale corpse in an alley. now I know what he meant a year ago when he said he was dying inside person 1: oh my god
When you can only describe the way you feel as dying inside but you're just insanely happy and/or giddy. You would like to sink into the ground because the happiness is too much.
Y/n: OMGGG MY CRUSH LOOKED AT ME🤪🥵 Bff/n: that's so great🙄 how do you feel??? Y/n: oh fine, I'm just dying inside in a good way