Seen through the nervous system, familiar diagnoses start to sort into patterns. Someone who tends toward sympathetic activation might present with hypertension, anxiety, insomnia; someone spending more time in dorsal vagal shutdown might present with fibromyalgia, IBS, chronic constipation, depression. This clip offers a lens for family physicians — a way to understand how we move through the world through the functioning of our nervous system.
Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4
