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Hyperarousal: What Are The Signals I Must Attend To That I Am Beginning To Feel Uneasy, Agitated, Desperate?

This document provides information about a client's window of tolerance and signs of hyperarousal and hypoarousal. It asks the client to circle feelings and physical sensations associated with beginning to feel uneasy or helpless. For hyperarousal, it prompts noticing breathing, body feelings, thoughts, posture, senses when feeling alert but safe. For hypoarousal, similar prompts are given about signals of beginning to feel helpless, trapped or out of focus.

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Hyperarousal: What Are The Signals I Must Attend To That I Am Beginning To Feel Uneasy, Agitated, Desperate?

This document provides information about a client's window of tolerance and signs of hyperarousal and hypoarousal. It asks the client to circle feelings and physical sensations associated with beginning to feel uneasy or helpless. For hyperarousal, it prompts noticing breathing, body feelings, thoughts, posture, senses when feeling alert but safe. For hypoarousal, similar prompts are given about signals of beginning to feel helpless, trapped or out of focus.

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Client Handout - Window of Tolerance

What are the signals I must attend to that I am beginning to feel uneasy, agitated, desperate?

Circle what you are feeling: hypervigilant overwhelmed enraged terrified shaking sweating
scared panicked panting heart rate increase angry on guard anxious
sensitive uneasy edgy stressed restless jittery worried frazzled tense
Hyperarousal
What do I notice when I feel alert but safe?
What is my breathing like?

What does my body feel like?

What thoughts am I having?

How am I sitting? What am I smelling?

What am I seeing?

Hypoarousal
What are the signals that I must attend to that I am beginning to feel helpless, trapped, or out of focus?

Circle what you are feeling: Cold Slow Difficulty focusing Dizzy Fuzzy Heavy
Blanking out Faint Dazed Loss of memory Struggle moving No Body Awareness
Disconnected Collapse Stupor Freezing Shut down Paralysis

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