Fai Mos·May 7, 2026
The Five Nervous System States, Which One Are You In Right Now?
Before I understood the nervous system, I understood my moods as a kind of weather. Unpredictable. Arriving without explanation. Something to manage or wait out.
What I did not understand was that my moods had a physiology. That there was a biological logic to why I sometimes felt wired and reactive, why I sometimes felt numb and distant, why some days I could meet everything with relative steadiness and other days the smallest thing felt unbearable.