"I'm a huge Seattle Seahawks fan. When I lived in Seattle from 2000 to 2009, I held season tickets on the 60-yard line. I watched Matt Hasselbeck promise a win during the overtime coin toss in the 2003 NFC playoffs, only to lose to Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers. I sat in the stands in 2006 when Seattle beat Carolina to go to the Super Bowl against Pittsburgh."
"I can only conclude that I'm worn down. That day after day of five-alarm fires and conflict among fellow citizens have taken something out of me. I didn't feel depressed or especially sad, but rather detached in a way there's no perfect word for. I thought of what science has taught us about our body's response to chaos-how unpredictability and turmoil "tune" our stress response systems by first strengthening them, then later dialing them back."
A lifelong sports fan who attended Seahawks games and watched notable Olympic and NHL moments experienced sudden apathy toward a recent Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics, remaining indifferent even during a serious athlete crash. Repeated societal crises and continual high-conflict events produced a worn-down state marked by emotional detachment rather than clinical depression. Prolonged unpredictability and turmoil recalibrate human stress-response systems by initially strengthening reactions and later dialing them back. Cortisol functions to restore depleted energy reserves in brain and body and plays a central role in how stress responses adapt over time.
Read at Psychology Today
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