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The skills to manage…
▪ We need good skills to tolerate the unpleasant feeling of an unmet
need - a stressor.
▪ If the stressor is not too big and someone has good skills, they can
tolerate the unpleasant feeling. We call this ‘catching the prickle’.
▪ Without strong Executive Function Skills, a person can find it too
hard to tolerate the unpleasant feeling and go into a stress
response (like fight, flight or freeze).
▪ If the stressor is too big or is repeated again and again
(leading to toxic stress – see next page), it may be too
difficult to manage, even for someone with good skills.
