Angela MondorClickUp Verified Consultant, ClickUp · Operations consultant & ClickUp Verified Consultant for neurodivergent entrepreneurs

Signs Your Nervous System is Dysregulated 🧠 #Shorts

3 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, two speakers share personal insights on recognizing nervous‑system dysregulation. Speaker A cites a specific sensory trigger—car tires on wet roads—as a cue that the nervous system is out of balance, noting that heightened reactivity signals dysregulation. Over years of experience, they learned to monitor these reactions, becoming extra aware when certain noises or sensations cause distress, and to take deliberate steps to protect resilience. Speaker B reinforces the idea that recognizing these early signals allows one to manage emotional regulation effectively, while also acknowledging that once regulation breaks down, it can be difficult to regain control. The exchange highlights the importance of self‑observation, proactive coping, and the impact of chronic reactivity on long‑term resilience.

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Yeah, for me, it's car tires on wet roads. Oh, okay. I mean, all the bizarre things that make me twitch, that is. And I can tell how dysregulated my nervous system is by how reactive I am. And that's taken me a number of years though, and being less reactive for a while to actually understand that, oh, when I find that I'm really unhappy with that noise, I need to, you know, be extra aware and take extra steps to keep things in check, or, you know, it just eats away my resilience over time.
And I think that that's the key piece there. When you said it took me a while to get here, right? And also to say, like, now I know when I feel this, then I know that this is Like our emotional regulation can be managed well, but when it goes out, it's out. Right.