
Functional Freeze: When Anxiety Stops Feeling Like Panic and Starts Feeling Like Nothing
Not sad. Not anxious. Just nothing — going through the motions, feeling disconnected. Functional freeze is the anxiety response nobody talks about.
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Not sad. Not anxious. Just nothing — going through the motions, feeling disconnected. Functional freeze is the anxiety response nobody talks about.

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