Psychology Today | 24.04.2026 21:48
It's Friday morning. Your inbox has 47 unread emails, you have three deliverables due by the end of today, and your calendar is back-to-back all day. Somewhere in the middle of it, you freeze. You open a browser tab, close it, and open it, accomplishing nothing for 20 minutes. That experience of paralysis in the face of too much is what most people call overwhelm. And the near-universal response is to try to make it stop.
