Unfortunately, the body can overreact as stressors that are not life-threatening, such as traffic

jam, deadlines at work, and typical problems that we face in our families.

Kids not doing their homework or not finishing their food or causing typical teenage problems.

And scientists have learned a lot more about how and why this stress response happens

as well as how chronic stress can affect our physical and psychological health.

Have you wondered recently what the hell is going on with people?

Why are people so unedged?

Why are people so easily triggered?

Is it really because of the reasons they give?

For example, if you're on the left, you might say what's wrong with the United States,

is systemic racism, or the patriarchal capitalism, or corporatism.

If you're on the right, you say it's the loss of traditional values.

That, you know, people have become too entitled, people need Jesus in their life

or some form of religion to give them some meaning.

And guess what?

There's elements of truth to all those arguments.

But today, we're going to discuss what I believe to be the underlying problem, because

one thing that human beings do is we bullshit ourselves.

We make up these logical reasons when really it's the emotional feelings that we

have that are driving what we say.

And we rationalize our feelings.

We come up with complicated, philosophical discussions about it, but really it comes

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