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How to calm an overreactive nervous system

My nervous system feels like a smoke detector that goes off when someone burns toast and I cannot turn down the sensitivity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A nervous system calibrated for historical danger may interpret benign present stimuli as threats requiring full activation.

Ideas that help explain it
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