According to Frank Anderson, MD, a psychiatrist, trauma specialist, and author of To Be Loved, functional freeze isn’t ...

Functional freeze is a term that’s been thrown around a lot on social media recently, especially TikTok. And it's not that surprising — who doesn’t feel overwhelmed and want to take a long ...

It's not a clinical term, but you might hear names like freeze response, autopilot mode, or stress paralysis if you're talking to a therapist about similar feelings. Or you might have a more ...

(Some research contextualizes a freeze response with animals' tendency to play dead when they're attacked.) Fighting, fleeing, or freezing are survival mechanisms — a means of coping — but ...

Functional freeze is a term that’s been thrown around a lot on social media recently, especially TikTok. And it's not that surprising — who doesn’t feel overwhelmed and want to take a long ...

Similar terms such as “freeze response,” “autopilot mode” or “stress paralysis” have come up in mental health discourse on social media — all referring to anxious emotions which ...