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The Greek fathers called it acedia (ἀκηδία) — often translated as sloth, but that's misleading. It's not laziness. It's more like a spiritual numbness or dryness — a state where the things that used to move you feel flat, where prayer feels like talking to a wall, where reading Scripture feels like reading a textbook.
The Desert Fathers wrote about it extensively in the 4th century. Evagrius Ponticus described it as "the noonday demon" — it attacks not the weak but the serious, the ones who have been at it long enough to get tired.
St. John of the Cross called it the dark night of the soul — a withdrawal of felt consolation that God sometimes allows precisely because a person is maturing spiritually. The idea is that God weans you off emotional experience so that faith becomes something deeper than feeling.
Narek himself — the man you've been reading — wrote the entire Book of Lamentations from inside this experience. That rawness you feel in his writing? That's a man who knew exactly what you're describing.