I get it - the sympathetic nervous
system is the fight or flight, the parasympathetic is the one that calms you
down.
When your brain is changed from PTSD,
the sympathetic system gets activated too frequently, in situations when it really shouldn't, & is totally unhelpful, with resulting
physiological symptoms - i.e. shallow breathing, or even holding of breath,
rapid heartbeat etc.
I've felt so frustrated about the
symptoms, separate from those from my vestibular migraine and vision disorders. Now I understand - something about Dr.
Margolis's explanation clicked for me - why it happens.
The idea behind syntonics - a
special kind of light therapy that takes the light therapy used for seasonal
affective disorder further - is to have these two systems (sympathetic and
parasympathetic) work together better.
Even if syntonics still doesn't work
for me, it's a relief to finally understand PTSD.
