FREEZE Response
FREEZE Response
Do you ever have days where you LITERALLY can’t get out of bed?
There’s a good chance you experienced a ‘Freeze Response’
It’s a psychological response to life’s overwhelming stressors, and it’s more common than you think.
Listen to my FULL breakdown of Freeze Responses, including how to navigate them, AND how to help a loved…
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Me right now 😢 😭
Been there recently. I was asked was I happy with my job and did I feel it was a good fit. That particular day was the wrong day for those questions. All I could manage was "I don't know." Now I'm having to decide what the answer will be this week for my 60 day review at work.
this channel is the best, so real and accurate to my life 💕(Undertale rules!)
I have been in a freeze response quite often….Severe Depression will do that.
Being married to a Narcissistic/Triathlete doesn't help…. When my condition is very severe, I get a full on Migraine for days. My mind & body shut down. I must be in silence and darkness, lots of water 💧, no food, sometimes for days. My mind shuts down.
I just never knew what name it was called. Thank you🙏🏼
I don’t even remember anymore how to live proper life 😭 I need help
I feel like I've been in a freeze response more or less for almost 4 years now, don't really know how to get back to life feeling good like it used to. Stacking small victories? Being more honest with myself and others?
Yesterday I froze up. I hate that. Too much stress.
Thank you now what I need to do is do the small stacks of things I got to get done
This is so accurate
And… offering help also works, help plan execution of tasks, encouragement, relating to the situation by giving examples of how you did it(w/o patronizing or belittling them)and give empathy/emotional support.
I’m coming out of it now.
Yes been here in a freeze for a long time.
You gotta set up rewards for putting in effort to complete task and or etc.
Yes.
Thank you 🙏🏻
You’re impact is profound. You make me feel not alone and…not as much of a failure. You are truly doing God’s work. Bless you.
I’m sitting at a bus station in Tanzania, it’s 1996. A man comes up to me to talk, he says: you look really bored. I wasn’t. I was frozen. In stress.
Cleaning my car is always the first accomplishment and that usually gets me motivated 😊
😂 So weird, my screen froze when you first started speaking. I was like, uh, is this part of the talk about freezing 😄
HealthyGamerGG has talked about the feeling of paralysis when you’re overwhelmed as actually being caused by tiredness being a response to an overwhelming task, rather than it being akin to the acute freeze response when you’re in danger. So like, to protect you from doing too much work towards something that might not yield rewards, our body has an evolutionary mechanism to make us feel acutely tired when we think about an overwhelming task or set of tasks. It’s also why people say that some people make them tired, because they feel overwhelmed by having to deal with them. I think it makes sense for me more than a freeze response
Can you do a longer video of this, please❤ I'm really trying to do this stacking small victories in my life all day today. Baby steps, ❤I know.
All that is already going through our brains.
Is there a short on the freeze response when you are confronted by someone and your face goes cold, breath gets shallow and mind goes blank and you’re unable to do anything but take it, because your brain isn’t working at all? Is there a fix to snap out of that when it’s happening?
THAT'S ME !!!!! 😢
That’s where I am right now
Thank you so much for emphasising the freeze response and the importance of others acknowledging how incapacitating it is. Everyone talks about fight or flight, but freeze is just as common.
I was going to add a comment. But, I stopped and read the comments instead and became overwhelmed with what others were saying and feeling. It saddened me quite deeply. The last one specially. I wonder how you would respond to these other group(s) on YouTube that say there is no such thing as depression and you are obviously helping people with depression and a lot more. I have been trying to reconcile this to myself for quite some time. How do you do it? And what would you say to all of us that watch and listen to you on a daily basis? Do we ignore them? Is there any truth to what they are saying? How do they look at what this country has become and make these statements? Can you please address this? I feel for this person at the end of the comments.
Stacking small wins, I intuitively feel that that’s the solution to my depression. I’ve felt that for years. Haven’t figured out how to implement it though.