overwhelmed

When I do feel overwhelmed, I’ll sit completely still and look out the window at trees.

Sangeeta, who goes by one name, is overwhelmed every day as she juggles work, household chores and childcare while enduring severe hot flashes, fatigue, insomnia, backache and abdominal pain.

If we remembered absolutely everything that happened to us, we’d be overwhelmed with too much information.

Speaking to BBC News, Harvey said she was "in complete shock and very overwhelmed".

“We thought we were doing it to avoid a northern Italy situation,” she said, referring to scenes in Lombardy, where intensive-care units had been overwhelmed.