Is your nervous system stuck on?
Some stress switches off when the stressful thing ends. Sometimes it doesn't — the body stays braced, the mind stays loud, and rest stops doing its job. This is a quick, honest way to notice where you are. Check the ones that ring true.
Mostly settling on its own.
That's a good sign. Your system sounds like it's finding its way back to baseline after stress, the way it's built to. Keep protecting the things that genuinely restore you — sleep, movement, people, quiet. If this shifts and the list starts landing harder, that's worth paying attention to.
Running a little hot.
This is the "wired but tired" zone, and it's incredibly common. Your nervous system may be idling higher than it needs to — alert when it could be resting, which is exhausting to live in even when nothing's technically wrong. This is often exactly where LENS helps: a gentle, drug-free nudge back toward a calmer baseline. Talk therapy and Brainspotting can do real work here too. The honest next step is a free consult, where I can tell you whether any of it's a sensible fit.
Sounds like it's stuck on.
A lot of this landed — and that "stuck on" feeling is real, not a character flaw or something you should be able to push through. When the nervous system gets locked in a high-alert pattern, no amount of talking yourself down quite reaches it, because the thing that's stuck isn't a thought. This is the pattern LENS was made for: helping an over-activated system settle so the rest of the work can actually land. You don't have to keep white-knuckling it. The easiest first step is a short, no-pressure conversation.
This isn't a diagnosis or a medical test — it's a reflection tool to help you put words to how you've been feeling. LENS isn't magic and it isn't right for everyone; the only way to know if it fits you is a real conversation. And if things feel genuinely unsafe or you're in crisis, please don't wait on a form — reach out to someone who can help right now.
Rather just talk it through?
You don't need a score to reach out. A free consult is the easiest way to get a real, honest answer about what would actually help.