The Four to Ten Range of Arousal

When you're in the one to three range, when you feel yourself numbing out or shutting down, you will often be experiencing some measure of shame, hopelessness, or despair. In the eight to ten range, that's when your body is in a state of hyper arousal. The eight to ten panic zone is dysregulation, and the one to 3 shutdown zone is dysregulated. So, summary, affect exists on a continuum. It ranges from numb and shut down, one to three, through relaxed attentiveness, five to six, on to panicked and frenzied, eight to ten.