Pacific Mind Health Releases Free Guide to Help People Catch Overstimulation at Work Before It Peaks

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Mind Health has released a FREE downloadable guide When Work Feels Like Too Much designed to help people recognize the early signs of overstimulation on the job and respond before they reach full overload.

Noise, lighting, notifications, back-to-back meetings, and a steady stream of small decisions all accumulate over a workday. Without recovery time in between, that buildup can tip into overstimulation and activate the body's stress response. This new guide offers a practical framework for noticing the shift early, when a small adjustment still works.

DOWNLOAD THE FREE OVERSTIMULATION AT WORK GUIDE

"By the time someone says they're completely overloaded, their body has usually been signaling it for a while," said Veronica Calkins, LCSW, supervising clinical psychotherapist at Pacific Mind Health. "Jaw tension, rereading the same sentence over and over, a short fuse: those signs are the opening. Once you're past them, recovery takes a lot longer."

The guide includes:

• A checklist of common sensory and cognitive triggers in the workplace
• Early warning signs that show up in the body, thoughts, and mood
• A four-step reset: notice, reduce, reset, re-enter
• A breathing technique to help settle the nervous system
• Guidance on when to seek additional support

The guide also addresses why overstimulation affects some people sooner than others. Conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and trauma can reduce the capacity a person starts the day with, meaning overload may arrive faster and take longer to settle.

"People tend to treat this as a stamina problem, something they should be able to push through," said Calkins. "Five minutes between meetings, checking messages at set times instead of constantly, these small structural changes give the nervous system somewhere to land."

When Work Feels Like Too Much is available now as a free download at pacificmindhealth.com and is part of Pacific Mind Health's ongoing effort to provide accessible, skills-based mental health resources for the community.

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About Pacific Mind Health
Pacific Mind Health is a provider of outpatient psychiatry and interventional psychiatry services in California. The practice offers personalized, evidence-based care including psychiatry, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), ketamine, and Spravato® (esketamine). Pacific Mind Health provides both in-person and online appointments, with locations in Long Beach, West Los Angeles, Irvine, and throughout California.

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