Body gets stuck?

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Sometimes I can't move, and my mind goes in a loop sort of like

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(It doesn't terminate, and the computer freezes.).

Or I just can't control my body. Do you ever get this?

I space out and my mind goes into a loop. I understand that.
But I don't know about the 'can't move' part.
Do you think it could be catatonia?

I think so. I am also unsure about the 'strength' of the physical body freezing though, so we may not be experiencing the same thing.

I space out and it's hard to not.

I get that 'body can't move' sensation. I don't think its catatonic or at least it has never gone to a level that could be regarded as paralysing. My 'body can't move state' is where I am totally overwhelmed/burned out/freaked out, in one of those depressive states etc. Its a sensation closely associated with the desire to crawl into myself and shut the world out. Another version is where I'm going through my 'talking to myself' analysis of whats been going on and in my 'talking out' thought process I end up in a cognitive loop that doesn't end; a sort of mental 'funk' A part of that self-perpetuating cognitive loop I simply cannot focus on anything else. Its not dangerous in that an external stimuli that kicks adrenalin into my system will break the 'funk'.

I get frozen like this when I'm stressed. Repeatedly and at random.

By "at random" I mean that even though freezing is, for me, a completely non-random reaction to stressful thoughts, the thoughts themselves come at random, in an invasive way, and they very often have nothing to do with my immediate stressors. So I call it random.

I know things are bad when I'm freezing. When this happens to me, it's time to sit down and evaluate my environment and commitments, because something's gotta give before I break.

I reckon the 'body can't move' sensation is closely allied to the 'aspie stare' phenomenon.

More like there's a delay, or something. Takes more conscious effort to move, but all of my brain-power is tied up in the loop, so . . .
I thinks it's kind of the same. Thanks, guys.