Dr Emily - How to Stress Less
The Imperfects
The Dorsal Vagal Shutdown
The body's incredible. The fact it can do that is unbelievable. Like in such a life preserving thing, I don't know if you've actually seen those terrible, like videos where people go on roller coasters and they pass out? Yeah. That is dorsal vagal shut down. Oh, really? So yeah, passing out. That's a jam. Uh-huh. Your nervous system,. we can't detect what's like what's a genuine real threat versus like this is just pretend to get you, you know, scared. But your body is detecting that this is far too overwhelming. So it moves into like flop drop mode. And so if I collapse it's
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