[Replay] Building Your Emotional Toolkit with Autistic Therapist Kathy Carter
The Neurodiverging Podcast
How to Overcome Overwhelm and Recover
I think my tendency personally is to go for the cognitive sort of, you know, distract my brain piece. But I certainly have clients and my kiddos are much more sensory, distract sensorily. So yeah, often you're distracting your brain, aren't you? In that moment, you just need to give it something else to think about because obviously overwhelm can lead to panic. If there's any way to slow down the process and react a little more carefully and slowly, it might reduce the meltdown. It might stop the meltdown or it might stop some kind of self-injorous behaviour. Just take less time to regulate back up and to recover.
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