A State of Shock Star of Bethlehem is one of the Bach Flower Remedies which belongs in everyone's alternative medicine kit, for it deals with shock, both acute and as a long-term state.
Acute shock is easy to identify.
Your son announces that he's going to drop out of college and get married. Your company downsizes. You narrowly miss having an automobile accident. The emotional and often physical result of any of the above can be a kind of numbness. It is as if the mind, refusing to believe what it is experiencing, directs the emotions, and often the body, to shut down.