Communication Freeze Functional Aphonia

Definition

Psychogenic loss of voice with an intact larynx — relational content presses for utterance while phonation itself will not engage, the breath and voice-motor frozen though structurally sound. Distinct from selective mutism (threat-locked total arrest), Evaluative Block (online audience-evaluation), Bond Protective (internalized cost-belief), and live external danger; here no threat or belief holds it — the arrest is functional and recovers once intact voicing is shown.

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Orthography

case

capitalized-always

evidence

ordinary

Usage

do not use for

The parent cascade, a reusable global diagnosis, or a variant attached to a different cascade.

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use when

Naming a reviewed presentation that is a child of exactly one parent cascade.

Relationships and lifecycle

Parents

• cascade.communication-freeze