When the subcortical system sends excessive information to the upper brain, it causes the upper brain to become overwhelmed and unable to send soothing signals back down, creating a cyclical dysregulation that pushes the brain outside its window of tolerance.
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a lot of times what happens is they've actually got a brain on fire or what Dan would call flipped lid, right? So, we've got the subcortical system and it's sending information up to the upper brain. And it's sending so much information up there that my upper brain is on fire, too. And it's not sending any soothing or I got this information down. It's going, "Ma!" right? And so, I end up with a lid that's flipped. So, I Basically, this fire down here lights this one on fire and then now I've got a fire going. And it's still that cyclical system, but it it's outside of window of tolerance.
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