Polyvagal theory...

Ok, this helps. It helps me to understand why I get into the frozen, immobile, unable to speak or think stage.

It helps me to understand why, when I'm heading into relatively shut down, ex service user becomes worse.

And it increases my tolerance to his constant talking at me.

I sit and nod, and mindlessly mumble key words back, and support myself by watching SFBT videos. Basically I'm at the point in my course where my next assignment should be done and isn't, and the final one should be half done.

Ha, it isn't.

Anyway, I passed the last one, so I'm still on a high.

More about the ployvagal theory next time!