I need a name for the paralyzing anxiety deadlock which swallows days and weeks, which creeps in, taking over so insidiously that you aren't even particularly anxious at times, more just โฆ waiting, killing time, because god knows you can't make yourself do/change anything anyway so you just wait, but then sometimes you realize how much older you've gotten while you've been waiting, and how we are all falling but not forever, and then mortal terror strikes.
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I'm actually serious about needing a name. My name for paralyzing anxiety which includes anxiety about being paralyzed is deadlock, but that's ... not a thing that typically eats days or weeks at a time, and often simple deadlock can be broken by meditation and/or THC. There are worse forms of paralysis, what do I call this one.