Chronic fatigue can cause this, so can Clinical Depression.

At times I hunker down in one place to feel safe and secure, but I usually have my lap top, the tv, an e-book, my phone or some combination of the above, I am not unconscious or just staring into space. I do have chronic fatigue - it makes me low energy not mentally inactive.

Have you tried talking to a doctor about this?

I have trouble moving, but because I have advanced kidney failure. Low kidney function means low energy. Like you, for years now. I still work a job I enjoy and take care of myself, but I budget my energy wisely. Even around the house.

But are you saying your immobility may not be due to physical reason? If so, I would be sure to be checked out by a doctor and a therapist to pinpoint the issue. You may be able to enjoy a change.

When I'm really depressed, that is how I feel too. Except for the pain part. I don't know why you are in pain. You did remind me of a commercial that says, "A body in motion stays in motion." One step more each day... perhaps you can set some personal goals if you are ready to move more. Be Well...

Hopefully theres some kind of medicine you can take to take the edge off so you can be mobile. That sounds really frustrating.

you say it's a mental block? Do you know why? If we don't exercise we get atrophy, "if you don't use it you lose it". The more atrophied you get the weaker you get the harder it is then to move. When was the last time you had a physical exam?

Sometimes I just want to stay in bed and not ever wake up at all, like I'm there in the fetal position. I don't know if that's what yours is like.

I've found taking a b complex with c and a multivitamin during the day gives me the boost I need to move slowly but hey I'm moving. Try it.

(TW) Thank you every one.

I went to my weekly anxiety group with this question. They helped me narrow down my "hot thought". It may be a fear of being harmed.

As a small child under the age of 4 y/o I was regularly beaten; most of which I don't remember. My older siblings did. They told of 2 times where they thought I was going to die.
One time my father punched me so hard I stopped breathing; the other time he kicked me with his army boots so much and hard that I want into convulsion.

I may have had one of these types of abuses for not siting still.
If this thought is correct, then I am in a normal state by not moving from my spot. Just like some people who survived a plan crash never fly again.
I would value any ones opinion and input.

well, I was wondering about that when I saw your first post, because I have kind of a similar thing to that. My sister and I were beaten, and constantly told to be still, and sometmes I might be sitting with someone and feel like I have to be very still, and then sometimes I dissociate even to the point of somehow feeling like I want to move and I psychologically move but physically I'm still frozen.

I'm sorry you went through that. If that's the case then maybe grounding would work? When you feel like that remind yourself that you are in the present and look at things around you, and breathe, and see if that helps you?

is your pain coming from sitting or uncomort from staying too long at the same spot
are you scared when you are moving to another spot, what could be reason to make you to stay put in new spot

then how can you move so quickly from bathroom, is there also fear of not being put at the spot where you moved, so you go back to that spot very quickly without much effort like from ones when you change your spots and need for exhausting, great effort to move

how you feel when you spend so much time at the same spot, how you feel when you are out, not at home?

Some questions you maybe can think about, and i did see that you think it is from being scared of harming

You are no more that little child, you arent now in harm way, is there any way that you can start to practice to move more often rather than being still at the same spot, can you try anything like that, first only a one try daily and see can it help you in any way, maybe try to move even if you cant complete it at the time, an attempt of move

Im sorry that you have such a bad time

Mine only surfaced in recent years. When the abuse started in my childhood homes, my 10 siblings and I produced a variety of reactions. Some of us froze. Some of us hid. Some of us fought. Some of us ran. I was a fighter and a runner. Somewhere in the healing process, it morphed into something like what you describe. This week I theorate that I am gestating new habits to replace the old ones. Haven't ruled out possibilities like isolating, depression and the like, though. Who knows?

Hope you find what it is for you. Sounds painful.

Friday evening I realized that I simply couldn't move. There were things to do for early Saturday morning. But I couldn't move. With a little sleep I started to work it out. I didn't do what I had intended to do in the house before the people from Paint Your Heart Out Tampa arrived, but it was enough. The toilet was clean, the bathroom sink, a clean towel on the rack. We do the best we can.

Sorry that happened, Milla, feeling like you couldn't move. But we really do, as you say, the best we can, and congrats for that.

totally relate! ptsd is dis-regulation of fight flight freeze submit survival mechanism .... sounds like you are in hypo-arousal / freeze state ... happens to me all the time ... sometimes feels like my brakes and gas are pressed to the ground and i'm just staying still but burning out my engine ... for many years tried staying in motion but that burnt me out too...

I'm somewhat in that frozen mode right now. I had not had a PTSD induced panic attack for a few months and yesterday I did. It wipes me out for a few days....I want to be alone, I want quiet, I need space etc. etc....sounds are too loud, lights are too bright, voices carry and I can't find my peace. This too shall pass, I need to get grounded again in my head. Ugh, this sucks.

Yes I can experience this. When I have a trigger, and I am traumatised. I stay still and cant move.

Time passes and I can be there for hours. The only way I describe this, is that I think it is because, I am scared to move. I feel so weird at that time. In my mind, if i stay still I am safer? At least I presume it is this? I know when I feel like that, I just want to be alone as I find it easier to cope with.