Restwick

Your nervous system is settled. You can think, feel, and act without fighting yourself.

Sympathetic ramp-up. Heart faster, attention narrow, body bracing. Fight or flight is online.

Dorsal shutdown. Numb, flat, slow. The body has decided action isn't safe right now.

Survival through pleasing. You're tracking other people's needs and dropping your own.

Too much input, not enough buffer. Everything feels urgent. Hard to take in new information.