We explain what overwhelm is, what feelings it encompasses, how it is experienced and examples of the use of the term.
What is the burden?
With the word oppression, an intense feeling of anxiety, concern or depression, usually arising before problems or worries of difficult or impossible solution.
Overwhelmed people, thus, experience great emotional suffering and a lot of stress, which they associate with feelings of oppression, suffocation and despondency, that is, with the perception that there is no way out of the present suffering and that these, at the same time, time, they are very difficult to bear.
The word overwhelm comes from the vulgar Latin gubbus, which means "hump", and figuratively implies the action of placing weight on a person's back, as someone who causes another a hump. Thus, those who are overwhelmed experience an emotional "weight" similar to that of a hump on their backs.
The causes of overwhelm can be very diverse, and can be objective or personal: economic crisis situations, for example, or social catastrophes, but also family losses or very stressful working conditions. In particular, extreme situations of boredom or futility, which take away the meaning of existence or effort, can be very overwhelming.
They are synonyms of overwhelm: suffocation, anguish, oppression, suffocation, among others.
Examples of the use of the word overwhelm
Some sentences with overwhelm or their derived words are, for example:
- The crippling increase in unemployment is terrible for the popular classes.
- The pace of work has me overwhelmed.
- War continues to be an overwhelming reality.
- Let's not let this overwhelm us, friends.
- The recent death of my father has me very overwhelmed.