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