Dealing with the Overwhelm: Chronic Freeze and Depression

It’s all about the nervous system

Jenny Beck
5 min readNov 27, 2021

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Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

Depression can feel like a rock sitting on our chest, suffocating the life out of us. We feel sluggish with no energy. Even the smallest activity can feel overwhelming. We just want to lay in bed all the time with the shades closed. Life becomes too much to handle. Our nervous system is in a state of collapse.

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Jenny Beck

Jenny Beck is a chiropractor and an advocate for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community. She loves to write and travel, living in Asia, Africa and the U.S.