Meltdown, Panic, or Rage?: Neurodivergent Adult's Guide to Telling Apart Three Ways of Losing Contro

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Meltdown, Panic, or Rage?: The Neurodivergent Adult's Guide to Telling Apart Three Ways of Losing Control, and Calming (and Owning) the Right One It happened again. You lost control — you yelled, or went to pieces, or said something sharp you can't take back — and now, in the quiet afterward, you're asking the one question you can't answer: was that a meltdown? A panic attack? Or were you, this time, just plain angry? The trouble is that all three feel almost the same from the inside, and the world hands you one blurry word for all of them. Based on the book by Muriel Gabriela Harrington and Israel Owen Leach, this podcast separates three experiences that constantly get confused: overwhelm that floods the system (meltdown), a fear alarm that fires without real danger (panic), and genuine anger at a genuine wrong (rage). Episode by episode, it teaches you to read the driver rather than the surface — what's underneath, whether there's a ta