Wacom Tablet Freezing Photoshop

Ive been having problems with photoshop freezing for the last several months. Ill be in the middle of working on something, pop over to a web browser or discord etc and come back to photoshop and the interface is completely frozen, I can still move the cursor around the screen using the track pad but tablet no longer can move the stencil for whatever tool  i had open, the program is nonresponsive and i cant save or close without opening the control panel and forcing a shut down-ultimately losing some level of progress. I have now noticed that it seems to happen when reconnecting my tablet after it goes idle and shuts off, after it runs out of battery and I plug it in and sometimes itll happen while Im literally in the middle of working. There are no crash reports since it just locks up and doesnt ever crash.

I have tried reinstalling photoshop and tablet several times and both are currently up to date and I dont work in large document sizes.

I have a Gigabyte laptop

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU 2.60 GHz

16 gb Ram

GTX 970M

Found some other people who have described a similar problem but they didnt find an answer either.

Wacom Intuos tablet freezes Photoshop

Help would be greatly appreciated - I have lost so much progress in my work collectively over the last several months.