Tag: functional paralysis

Functional Paralysis is a state in which a person may remain cognitively aware of what needs to be done yet experience markedly reduced access to initiation, decision-making, sequencing, movement, or follow-through.

Within the Captivity Lens, functional paralysis may emerge under cumulative overload, threat, collapse, neurodivergent strain, or prolonged conditions in which action itself has become costly, conflicted, or unsafe.

  • When The Architecture Moves Inside

    What Remains When External Access Ends Leaving a coercive environment and becoming internally free from it are not necessarily the same event. A relationship can end. A boundary can close. An institution can lose access. A person can physically leave.…