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• I notice that on the days I’ve slept badly or skipped lunch, the smallest thing sets me off and I take hours to come back down
• On the nights I barely sleep or forget to eat, the smallest thing sets me off and a normal day flattens me
• On the days I’m running on no sleep or skipped meals, the smallest thing sets me right off
• I forget to eat all day, run on fumes and get snappy, then inhale something in front of a screen at night without even tasting it
• On days I’ve slept badly or skipped meals, the smallest thing tips me over, and I’ve started to see that how much I can handle is set long before the stress even hits

Practices that may help

1. Reduce emotional vulnerability (PLEASE)
   Lower your baseline reactivity by protecting sleep, eating, exercise, and physical health.
   DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
2. PLEASE skills (reduce emotional vulnerability)
   Protect your baseline by tending physical health: illness, eating, avoiding mood-altering substances, sleep, and exercise.
   Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills, Made Practical
3. Assess the vulnerability factors that raised your baseline
   Identify the biological and situational conditions that made you more reactive before the chain started.
   Behavioral Chain Analysis: The DBT Method for Understanding Problem Behaviors
4. Eat regularly and pay attention
   Keep meals reasonably regular and eat with attention rather than on autopilot.
   Nutrition and Mood: The Gut-Brain Link, Honestly Explained
5. Build a wider window between crises
   Sleep, movement, and connection raise your baseline so the window is wider before stress hits.
   The Window of Tolerance: Your Optimal Arousal Zone
6. Act on early body signals (needs care)
   Use interoception to catch hunger, fatigue, and tension early and meet the need before it escalates.
   Interoception, Explained
7. Keep meal timing regular and avoid long gaps
   Long gaps between meals provoke a cortisol-driven hunger response that wrecks mood and cognition before the next bite.
   Blood-Sugar Stability for Steadier Mood and Energy
8. Use strategic naps to partially service acute sleep debt
   A well-timed afternoon nap partially replenishes performance capacity on days following acute sleep loss.
   Sleep Banking: Building a Buffer Before Sleep Loss
9. Treat sleep as your primary resilience deposit
   Consistent, adequate sleep is the single highest-yield resilience deposit — it restores every system that adversity will draw on.
   The Resilience Bank Account, Made Practical
10. Recover and recharge after intense emotion
    After an emotional peak, deliberately allow recovery time — intense arousal depletes resources.
    The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical

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