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Overstimulated? Therapist Explains Why + How to Cope! 💛

26 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Danielle Ralston. This content was uploaded by Danielle Ralston. This is a YouTube video titled "Overstimulated? Therapist Explains Why + How to Cope! 💛" (created 2025-11-26T20:26:47Z). The excerpt is an English dialogue between an interviewer (SPEAKER A) and a therapist referred to as Tara (SPEAKER B). They discuss overstimulation for neurodivergent people — causes such as excessive sensory input, workplace demands, smells and emotions, and hormonal peaks before menstruation — and mention coping approaches like co-regulation, support systems, and talking about experiences.

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Tara, let's talk about what overstimulated is and what causes overstimulation for those of us that are neurodivergent.
So what causes overstimulation, I think, is when there's just way too many external stimuli going on at once, whether it be too many noises, too many demands from a job, too many sights, The smells, a lot of emotions. For women, hormonally, right before our period, you know, overstimulation really, really peaks to the point where if somebody breathes wrong, it just feels like it overstimulates you. Like it just becomes too much and our nervous system cannot regulate at that point. And that's when co-regulation comes into play. Support systems come into play, talking about things come into play to help bring that overstimulation down.