Elay Amitay HaleviElite Trading Performance Coach

What happens when you have a dysregulated nervous system

20 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the presenter explains that chronic negative thinking often stems from a survival‑state dysregulation of the nervous system—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Modern life’s constant distractions prevent people from fully processing stressful events; instead they numb themselves with scrolling, food, or other vices. Because the stress is never resolved, the distress remains embodied, keeping the body in a state of danger. This prolonged dysregulation also creates a mental disconnection, where awareness feels external to the body and attention stays locked on perceived threats and negativity.

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If you're stuck in cycles of negative thinking and no amount of trying to look at the positives is working, it's likely because you are in a survival state in your nervous system. You're in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, or a combination of all of those states in your nervous system, which you might be thinking, that doesn't sound like me, but that's actually normal in this modern world. To be in a chronic state, prolonged state of dysregulation in the nervous system is normal. Why? Because we're so distracted. So when something happens that's stressful, a lot of the times we don't actually resolve that stressful thing in the moment, and we end up bringing it with us, and we end up scrolling, numbing in different ways through food, through other vices, whatever it is. And so we don't actually feel and process the distress. It stays in our body, and then our body stays in distress. But more than that, what happens in dysregulation is we end up disconnected. Our awareness ends up outside of the body, and our perspective stays focused on things that are bad, negative, or threatening because our body thinks we're in danger.