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The Escalation Cycle

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  Does this represent how you feel about someone at times, especially when their behavior is out of control? I know my mom has felt this way towards me a few times. This image is a representation of what my mother was feeling when I was going through an escalation cycle. The Escalation Cycle The behavior escalation cycle is a cycle of behaviors witnessed during an escalation; which is often traumatic, chaotic, long, and tiring   The Calm Phase  Otherwise known as the baseline. This is where the person is calm, responsive, goal-directed, able to work through problems, participating in active listening. The person is their average self and doing their typical routine in life  The Trigger Phase During which the person responds to a unwanted stimulus, such as sensory, lights, or memory, an issue from the past, based stimuli.      Mine are Extremely Spicy food for a sensory trigger and getting interrupted as a memory     based trigger T...

Importance of Sensory: 5 Senses

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As we grow up we learn about the importance of our senses. They help us understand our world and how we connect to it. Our senses inform us and protect us.  The Five Senses are: Sight                                Sound Touch Taste                                          Smell    Each sense is processed in a different part of the brain.  For me, my brain processes the senses differently. I am like any others out there, who have a brain that processes the information from the senses in a different way. Sometimes my brain is hypersensitive to a certain sense, like sound. I can pick up the slightest change in the background noise, so if there is construction going on it is hard for me to focus on the task I am supposed to be doing. Or even sight, my eyes ca...