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A panic attack is a sudden, intense surge of nervous system arousal. It is the same fight-or-flight response that would prepare your body to escape danger, switching on when there is no danger present. Most attacks build rapidly and last between five and 20 minutes. The attack itself is not harmful, even though it feels […]

Nervous system dysregulation shows up as a body that cannot settle. Jumpiness. Tension that massage does not hold away. Sleep that does not refresh, digestion that swings, and a background hum of vigilance that never fully switches off. The signs are physical first, mental second, and they cluster rather than appear alone. If several of

A baby who cries constantly and cannot be soothed is usually not sick. You are usually not doing anything wrong either. Crying normally peaks in the first six weeks. Some babies simply cry more than others. The NHS defines colic as crying more than three hours a day, more than three days a week, for

Being stuck in fight-or-flight means the body’s alarm never gets the all-clear. The sympathetic nervous system, the activation state that should fire briefly under real threat, stays switched on for weeks or months. The result is a body that never fully stands down: jumpiness, shallow sleep, tension that does not respond to rest, exhaustion a