Is the World Too Loud? Understanding Your Overstimulated Brain

Hey, Dr. Kane, what's happening in the brain when somebody feels overstimulated? So you actually have a bunch of areas in the brain that are labeled as the sensory network. And the job of the sensory network is to take all of the information that's coming at you from around you, as well as all of the information inside of your body, and to sort it out, if you will, into what is relevant and what is irrelevant. And sometimes those brain areas get a little, what I call leaky, where things start to filter through that maybe aren't relevant, and then your brain starts to pay attention to all sorts of things. We see this a lot in people who have gone through adversity or stress, and their brains are trying to protect them by allowing more data in, just in case it might be relevant for safety.