Notes

One idea at a time.

Quiet reflections on nervous system regulation, sleep, sensory overload, and what it actually means to come back to baseline.

June 4, 2026

Why Am I Tired All the Time?

First, the part that has to come first — and we mean it, not as a disclaimer but as the actual right order of operations: persistent, unexplained tiredness deserves a GP appoint...

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June 1, 2026

Why You Feel Drained After Socialising

You had a nice time. That's the confusing part. The people were lovely. You laughed, the conversation flowed, nothing went wrong. And then you got home, closed the door, and fel...

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May 26, 2026

Why Do I Feel Numb and Flat?

It's hard to describe, which is part of what makes it lonely. You're not sad, exactly. Sad would at least be something. This is more like the volume turned down on everything — ...

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April 8, 2026

Why Can't I Focus?

You used to be able to think. You remember it, vaguely. Now you read the same paragraph four times and retain none of it. You open a tab and forget why. Mid-sentence, your own p...

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March 30, 2026

Why Do Small Tasks Feel Overwhelming?

The email would take four minutes. You know this. You have, in your life, written thousands of emails, several of them excellent. And yet this one has been sitting there for nin...

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March 26, 2026

Overstimulated in Your Own Home

Home is supposed to be the place you recover from everywhere else. So there's a special kind of despair in standing in your own kitchen, surrounded by people you chose and thing...

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March 4, 2026

Why Do I Cry at Small Things?

It's never the big things, is that the strange part? You held it together through the genuinely hard stuff — the difficult month, the bad news, the things that would have justif...

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