/lit/ - Literature

>>15333671
Because that translates into "I don't give a fuck anymore" which turns off the reactive part of your brain and body. Adrenaline has a very short half life(2 minutes), being anxious is an active response that needs to be maintained by its constant production. Adrenaline derives from dopamine and works by turning you into superman both mentally and physically, with the bad side effect of overclocking the entire system. The system gets tired and becomes less responsive to adrenaline, which in turn means the next time you react and release it you will need more adrenaline for the same effect. Throughout months your anxiety then builds up as you condition yourself for more and more adrenaline with less and less good effects, leaving you only with a turbo button that just overheats the system. By embracing the complexity in front of you with its brute input, by embracing immediate reality as an agent with limited control of its environment, you stop secretly believing that you are some impossible kind of god, able to control everything, able to predict and prevent everything, responsible for everything, yet living his life as a human on Earth. You stop having high standards for yourself that can only be approached by injecting adrenaline into your veins. You limit your interest to smaller things. You stop pressing the Superturbo button.