Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A person who has been rendered indecisive, alienated, uncaring, confused, or helpless in conjunction with experiencing debilitate emotions, such as worry, fear, panic, despair, etc.
Usage examples of "emotional cripple".
She did not want to live the rest of her life as an emotional cripple.
She'd been reared by a pair of emotional assassins who brainwashed her into paranoia, crushed her self-esteem, twisted her natural goodness into a thirst for blood and for mayhem, and left her an emotional cripple.
That guy is a complete emotional cripple, but the other panel members didn’.
I hate you knowing I'm an emotional cripple, and I hate the idea of starting out a marriage as a mental case.
Dear God, the last thing I needed was another emotional cripple following me around.
An emotional cripple, that's what they had called him, though not in those words - an emotional cripple scarred for life by his early experiences.
Francis still felt good things about him, but now thought of him as an emotional cripple, dry, yeah, but at what cost?
Was it actually possible that this magnificent, appalling man whom I had sadly relegated to the status of emotional cripple had discovered human love?