Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma

His work has awakened a growing interest in applications of these understandings by psychologists, psychiatrists, and an array of gifted, insightful trauma therapists. They may have a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress even if they are not physiologically in an actual state of sympathetic-chain stress. Issues as different as post-traumatic stress, anxiety, phobias, and autism spectrum disorders have a somatic component, and almost all cases of so-called psychological problems include a lack of flexibility and resilience in the autonomic nervous system. Other people are unlikely to understand that her nervous system had been hammered down the evolutionary scale from social engagement to stress and finally to withdrawal and apathy.