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Overactivated Nervous System

After a traumatic or stressful life event it is very common for the body and nervous system to become overactivated or disregulated. Basically a traumatic shock or stressful life event can cause your fight, flight, freeze (FFF) response to become "stuck-on" and this puts your nervous system into a state of overactivation or disregulation. 

After a traumatic shock/stressful life event people may fluctuate between TOO MUCH and TOO LITTLE arousal

The diagram below depicts what happens to your body and level of arousal when your nervous system becomes overactivated or disregulated

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Adapted from Poole Heller, Heller, & Levine (2001), as well as Ogden, Minton, and Pain (2006).

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