Season 2 Episode 2 - TIPS for Dealing with Nervous System Dysregulation

What They AREN’T Telling You

Melissa Floyd

Society & Culture

3.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode I ask the question I get most often these days, "How do you deal with nervous system dysregulation?" I talk about some of the things that have helped me in these last several months, including practical tips but also mental and emotional ones too. Anyone dealing with chronic illness, mysterious symptoms, or nervous system issues understands how all-consuming and debilitating this situation can be. Audio from IG live 01/12/2023.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, thank you for the waves. I'm doing this as a live video because I tried
0:11.4	to record this separately and it only lets me do a certain amount of time, but when you
0:16.6	do a live video, you're not restricted to time. So here is the video that I promised
0:25.6	you that kind of goes in addition to the video about nervous system dysregulation. So this
0:36.2	video today is going to be about the types of things that have helped me thus far, the types
0:43.6	of things that can assist a little bit or where I have found practical application.
0:50.6	Okay, so again, we're talking about nervous system dysregulation and in a previous video, I already
0:59.0	talked about kind of the ways in which it shows up for me. The thing about nervous system dysregulation
1:06.3	is it can show up differently for everyone. So you might say, oh well, I don't have vestibular
1:11.8	symptoms, so therefore that's not my problem. But your symptoms could show up neurologically,
1:21.2	it could show up emotionally, it could show up in another type of chronic physical pain. So it
1:27.1	doesn't have to look exactly like mine, but I've also gotten so many messages from people who
1:34.1	says that their symptoms do look exactly like mine are very similar. So that means that it can
1:41.8	absolutely appear the way it appears for me, it can appear in a slightly different way, but overall
1:47.6	it's still going to be some level of nervous system activation that is manifesting into symptoms.
1:56.6	Okay, so the biggest question people have is typically, okay, now what, like what do I do? I've
2:04.8	been suffering with this for who knows, it could be several months, some people it's been a couple
2:10.6	of years, some people it's been just recently. So the big question becomes what do you do about it?
2:20.6	What do you do when you're seeing nervous system dysregulation? Well, obviously one of the first
2:28.3	things to do is start becoming aware of nervous system regulation. It's like its own world,
2:34.6	its own language, start following people on Instagram that talk about this, start researching
2:41.0	and learning more about the nervous system, and not just in the general ways, not like the,
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