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Thursday, August 27, 2026
Stress environment, environmental stress. Sometimes it's quiet, when the machines pause. Your spirit drinks water from the air. Water is eternal, in reality.
Starlings help calm your heart.
Living in fight-or-flight around the clock keeps cortisol flooding your system, which weakens your immune defenses, strains your heart and blood pressure, disrupts your gut microbiome, and — over enough time — physically reshapes your brain, shrinking the hippocampus (memory, emotion regulation) while the amygdala (threat detection) grows more reactive. (Brandi Morin)
When you witness a human rights violation or a disaster, your brain registers it as a direct threat to your values, but there’s nothing you can physically do about it. Your body still gears up to fight or flee — and with nowhere for that energy to go, it just gets stuck. That trapped stress energy is what turns into learned helplessness and anxiety that never quite resolves.
Brandi Morin
The Helplessness Loop
We're on another planet
On another planet
Doin' the new world wave
Doin' the new world wave
Oh goddamnit
I'm reaching out to you
I'm reaching out to you
Doin' the new world wave
Doin' the new world wave
Recalling all the details
Recalling all the details
Of the new world wave
Of the new world wave.
The New World Wave,
Lambchop
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