The Night We Tracked a Crisis
An anxiety crisis, two Garmin watches, and every intervention timestamped. Stress 90 to 15 for one person. 90 to 67 for the other. The caregiver pays a cost the data can measure.
The Caregiver Asymmetry
When one person manually regulates another through a crisis, they absorb the autonomic load. Nicolas spent 5 hours with stress above 80 while providing body scan, massage, proprioception, and guided breathing. His interventions worked for her. His system never got the reset.
Hourly Stress: 17:00–23:00
Both elevated all evening. Nicolas never dropped below 74. The chiropractic session (17h) paradoxically increased his stress — fascial release registers as activation before integration. The cold shower at 20:30 was the only real vagal reset attempt.
Timeline
Chiropractic session starts (logged as yoga on Garmin)
Cannabis: CBN 2%, linalol, myrcene at 230°C
Watching Bones. Both stress >70
Cold shower — vagal reset attempt
Aurore enters anxiety crisis
Body scan begins. Left trapezius identified
Shoulder release — trigger point resolved
Craving passes. Physical contact replaced chemical pathway
Proprioceptive reactivation: shoulder → arm → hand → wrist
Garmin wrist anchoring — device mapped to proprioception
Aurore reaches sleep threshold naturally
Second crisis cycle: intercostals, plexus solaire
Second release achieved. Fetal position
Prazepam 1.5 dose sublingual (Nicolas)
Tercian + water + omega 3
Full bridge shutdown: lights, music, scripts
Rise and shine, Manemus!
Morning After
Nicolas
survivalAurore
recoverySleep Architecture
Nicolas: 42.4% deep sleep (2x normal) but only 13.1% REM. The sedative cocktail (prazepam + tercian + CBN) prioritized physical restoration over emotional processing. Aurore: 19.5% deep, 17.6% REM — balanced architecture from natural sleep onset.
What Worked
Raw Data
Biometric timeseries from both watches for February 6, 2026. Published as the first open dataset of a real-time anxiety crisis tracked on two devices with timestamped interventions.