Ness Labs: What to Do When You’re in a Functional Freeze 🥶

Everyone has moments like this; you want to make a good impression but your brain and body betray you. We call these moments of “freezing.” Jennifer’s symptoms were typical—dry mouth, shakiness, and “brain lock,” an inability to remember information or even form coherent sentences. Sometimes people lose an accurate sense of their bodies, accidental

Sometimes people lose an accurate sense of their bodies, accidentally spilling or bumping into things. Moments of freezing can range from mild, in which the person feels an uncomfortable stiffness, to extreme, in which the person literally can’t move or speak, the proverbial deer caught in headlights.