Variance: Overriding Events

I am very angry today.

Anger is an interesting emotion. It is an overriding event in the brain. It causes the amygdala to flood the body with hormones. The hormones provoke the flight/fight/freeze response. You can feel anger as an electrical cascade up the back of your spine. Your vagus nerve is fully charged.

As it progresses, you may taste adrenaline in your mouth, your breathing becomes labored or fast. Your throat tightens. Anger limits, or outright steals, your voice.

The reaction can last 20 minutes initially and can rebound quickly. It can keep you from speaking up. It can keep you from speaking out.

We all need tools to process past this override. And we must get past it because there is so much work to be done before this society can function for the good of all.