🧠 Nervous System

Your nervous system affects far more than how stressed or calm you feel. Explore sensory needs, regulation, overwhelm, shutdowns, meltdowns, recovery, and the ways your body communicates that something is becoming too much—so you can begin working with your nervous system instead of constantly overriding it.

Elana Dunn of PsychologyPop resting her chin on her hand with a thoughtful expression beside the title “The Part of the Pandemic I Still Think About.”

The Part of the Pandemic I Still Think About

I sometimes think about how peaceful life felt when the world slowed down during the pandemic. At the time, I didn't know I was autistic. Years later, my diagnosis helped me understand why fewer demands, predictable routines, and time to simply exist had felt so different. This is what that experience taught me about the life I want to live now.

@PsychologyPop — Elana Dunn, MEd, LPC