178 Hypervigilance: A recipe for socially acceptable addiction
Hypervigilance is a common stress and trauma response where it feels like you’re always on high alert. Even when you’re exhausted you can’t fall asleep, you have racing thoughts, ruminating, exaggerated startle responses maybe, irritable, emotionally dysregulated, reactive. Because it leads to insomnia and other sleep disorders it can be very detrimental to every system in the body. It’s also one of those things that opens the door to self medicating because when we can’t self regulate our nervous system we often turn to external chemical regulation. Our work IN today is how hypervigilance as a stress response can lead to socially acceptable addiction and natural ways we can self regulate for ourselves and our students.
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