<![CDATA[Sensory Overload or Panic Attack? The Neurodivergent Adult's Guide to Telling Apart Two Body Alarms ]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/sensory-overload-or-panic-attack-the-neurodivergent-adult-s-guide-to-telling-apart-two-body-alarms Your heart is slamming, the room is too much, and every part of you is screaming one word: out. But was that a panic attack, or was it sensory overload? They feel identical from the inside, yet they have opposite causes and need opposite responses — and using the right tool on the wrong alarm is why so many neurodivergent adults conclude that "nothing works." This show changes that.

Based on the book by Muriel Gabriela Harrington and Israel Owen Leach, each episode takes you inside one chapter and gives you a practical, plain-spoken way to read which alarm is firing — using onset, triggers, what your body is trying to do, and a simple relief test — and then calm the right one. You'll learn why the famous 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique rescues panic but can make overload worse, how the two alarms chain together, how to have fewer of both, and how to tell the people around you what actually helps. This is part of the Tell Them Apart series, a set of 8 books that help neurodivergent adults separate experiences that feel the same but call for different responses.

This is a guide, not a diagnosis, and it never replaces a qualified professional. A panic attack's symptoms can also resemble a medical emergency, so any symptom that is new, severe, or unusual — especially chest pain — deserves medical attention, not self-diagnosis.

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]]> RSS.com 2026.817.133114 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:05:54 GMT en 77d9e001-4875-5290-a622-e034b58681d3 https://media.rss.com/sensory-overload-or-panic-attack-the-neurodivergent-adult-s-guide-to-telling-apart-two-body-alarms/podcast_cover_20260802_104341_fa28f3771e8eb7c1e220f00da86f484a.png Sensory Overload or Panic Attack? The Neurodivergent Adult's Guide to Telling Apart Two Body Alarms https://rss.com/podcasts/sensory-overload-or-panic-attack-the-neurodivergent-adult-s-guide-to-telling-apart-two-body-alarms no TG 2026 TG TG false episodic podcast true <![CDATA[Find the Trigger]]> Become a detective about your own surroundings. Sensory overload usually has an identifiable external trigger and often comes from stacked sensory and social load; panic often has no external trigger, or an internal one. We cover the tricky case of a panic attack that happens in a supermarket, the learned-fear pattern, and how to build a trigger map that turns "my episodes feel random" into a readable pattern — as Nadia discovered when her "random" episodes turned out to have a clear sensory fingerprint.

Part of the Tell Them Apart series (8 books). Buy the complete book: https://amzn.to/4pQSQif

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/sensory-overload-or-panic-attack-the-neurodivergent-adult-s-guide-to-telling-apart-two-body-alarms/3044657 c8f11051-4843-4fab-bbeb-63633b106f0d 1336 full Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:44:01 GMT false true <![CDATA[What Came First :Telling sensory overload from panic attacks]]> If you take one tool from this show, take this one: what came first? Overload starts with input; panic starts with fear or a body sensation. This episode teaches you to replay the first thirty seconds of an episode, keep a simple onset record, and read the pattern across many episodes — and it's honest about when the read blurs. Through Theo's story, we show why a late realization is a win to build on, not a reason to punish the years behind you.

Part of the Tell Them Apart series (8 books). Buy the complete book: https://amzn.to/4pQSQif

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/sensory-overload-or-panic-attack-the-neurodivergent-adult-s-guide-to-telling-apart-two-body-alarms/3044601 de763ed7-904d-4f1a-8df7-cbb55214b553 1231 full Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:25:21 GMT false true <![CDATA[Your Panic Attack Might Be Sensory Overload :Saturation or False Alarm]]> We go one level deeper, into the machine under each alarm. Sensory overload is a processing bottleneck ,too many programs open until the system freezes. A panic attack is a fear surge that feeds on itself. The fix follows directly from the mechanism: less input for one, calmed fear for the other. You'll learn the cleanest felt test , "make it stop" versus "am I safe" ,and why reaching your limit sooner than others is a different threshold, not a defective one.

Part of the Tell Them Apart series (8 books). Buy the complete book: https://amzn.to/4pQSQif

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/sensory-overload-or-panic-attack-the-neurodivergent-adult-s-guide-to-telling-apart-two-body-alarms/3044548 7e7d30bb-6845-4d91-b782-3ab331f81b81 1362 full Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:23:16 GMT false true <![CDATA[Two Alarms One Body: Distinguishing Sensory Overload from Panic Attacks]]> Two people freeze in the same crowded train station , same posture, same fear on their faces and completely different alarms are going off. This episode names the two states plainly: sensory overload, which is saturation, and a panic attack, which is a false alarm. Through the stories of Maya and Daniel, we show why they look so alike, why the cause is what matters, and why having either one is a fact about your wiring, not proof that you're broken.

Part of the Tell Them Apart series (8 books). Buy the complete book: https://amzn.to/4pQSQif

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/sensory-overload-or-panic-attack-the-neurodivergent-adult-s-guide-to-telling-apart-two-body-alarms/3044495 295c2742-4b04-4a8a-8218-d291c00fb71d 708 full Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:43:33 GMT false true <![CDATA[When Your Body Hits The Alarm: Your Panic Attack Might Be Overload]]> Was that a panic attack, or was it sensory overload? In this opening episode we set up the puzzle at the heart of the whole show: two body alarms that feel identical from the inside but run on opposite causes and need opposite responses. We look at why so many neurodivergent adults spend years calling every episode "anxiety" simply because that was the only word on offer, and we introduce a two-minute exercise you can do today to start telling your two alarms apart.

Part of the Tell Them Apart series (8 books). Buy the complete book: https://amzn.to/4pQSQif

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