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You’re 35. Someone raises their voice and suddenly you’re 7 years old again, sitting at the kitchen table, trying to disappear. Your brain is literally reverting to the age you were when the original wound happened. Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux at NYU found that your brain has a fear shortcut. Sensory information hits your amygdala (the brain’s alarm system) before it ever reaches the part that thinks logically. The alarm fires in about 12 milliseconds. Rational thought takes over 250. In someone carrying old trauma, the alarm wins every time. Your body reacts before your mind even knows what happened. Bessel van der Kolk’s team put trauma survivors in brain scanners and watched what happens during a flashback. Three things go wrong at once. The amygdala floods the body with stress hormones, preparing you to fight or run. The prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that says “calm down, you’re safe, this is 2026,” goes quiet. And Broca’s area, the region that lets you put thoughts into words, shuts off entirely. Van der Kolk compared it to having a stroke. Trauma survivors sitting frozen and silent in emergency rooms aren’t choosing not to speak. The brain region for language has gone offline. The missing piece is the hippocampus. It’s the part of your brain that tags memories with a time and place, filing them as “this happened years ago.” Chronic stress hormones physically shrink it. MRI scans of PTSD patients consistently show this. When your hippocampus can’t do its job, your brain stops distinguishing a 20-year-old memory from something happening right now. That’s why a slamming door in 2026 can put you right back in a room from 1998. Your brain genuinely cannot tell the difference. The CDC ran the largest study on childhood trauma ever done. 64% of American adults report at least one adverse childhood experience. Those who had four or more were 12 times more likely to attempt suicide, develop depression, or struggle with addiction. The annual cost: $14.1 trillion. The good news: this isn’t always permanent. A study of PTSD patients found that after treatment, the hippocampus grew back by 4.6%. The part of the brain that files memories as “the past” can be rebuilt.

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I watched “Hamnet” at a screening. In just 126 minutes, it encapsulates all the sorrow, pain, loss, fear, love and joy, healing and hope found in life across all times and cultures. That beautiful final scene has the power to rewrite the history of cinema. It lays bare the miracle of movies. To be able to create something like this, Chloé Zhao must be a witch, or perhaps an angel.

“There are stories you want to tell, and stories that call you to tell.” For director Hasan Hadi, “The President’s Cake” was the latter. A childhood memory from 1990s Iraq under Saddam Hussein becomes a story of survival, morality, and growing up. Supported by the Sundance Institute Labs, the film is now in select theaters via @sonyclassics. Read more: sndnc.org/4bqzhGx

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Eloklah sekolah tutup kalau lebih 37 darjah sebab seingat aku dulu sekolah sampai darjah 6 je.

@aqilahsulaiman i know!! gonna buy real soon 🤩

@puteriarchy read the book!!! The movie does it justice but the book is still 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

It’s so sad to think about how many of us struggle to enjoy long films and read books simply because our attention spans are so cooked these days.

WEDDING OF THE YEAR LET’S GOOOO

Yoooo @SyedSaddiq congratulations for your engagement dengan Bella!! 🤩🔥

@pompuuwin power! also what app is thissss

wait heres the screenshot #proud

harini berjaya baca buku 57 min. dah set azam this year nak baca 2 buku sebab otak dah fried gila dah

@todayisaugust_ not me having to google translate to clock the tea ☕️

me to the ph book and film community nag adjust ung mga writers maging fast paced writing because some of you (which is madami) are throwing hateful and threats dahil sa maikli niyong attention span ngayon kayo naman ung nanggagakaliti kase walang depth ung writing #magulo

Terima kasih juga kepada kebudayaan Parsi yang mewarnai bahasa Melayu sejak sekian lama. Satu-satunya makian bahasa asing yang diserap dalam bahasa Melayu ialah daripada bahasa Parsi: haram jadah; apa jadah; kejadah; jadah.

orang Melayu dah guna istilah “anak haram jadah”, “anak sundal”, “anak kencing”, “anak gampang” lebih 300 tahun 😂😂

@hippopoteemo 👍🏾

@puteriarchy Then don’t think about that so not sad.

🚨 BREAKING Spain breaks diplomatic ties with Israel. Madrid has just recalled its ambassador and is planning to close its embassy in Tel Aviv. Israel condemned the move, calling it "highly antisemitic." Antisemitism is hatred of Jews. Criticizing Israel is not hatred of Jews. Zionism is not Judaism.

I've got a few enquiries from some mutuals whether I'm selling these watercolor pieces of KL I did for #ramadhansketchchallenge2026. Asalnya sayang nak jual as I don't usually sell my original artworks, but I think I'd love to see if they can find a new home

Kuliah sebelum Jumaat tadi, ustaz tanya. Malaysia ada hampir 1 juta pekerja Bangladesh. Berpuluh tahun di negara kita. Mereka bantu banyak kat sektor pekerjaan yang kita tak mampu buat. Tapi berapa banyak bahasa mereka yang kita faham? Adakah kita boleh bertutur basic perbualan guna bahasa mereka? Contohnya; Terima kasih. Apa khabar? Sihat ke tak? Dah makan ke belum? Majoriti kita langsung takde usaha nak belajar bahasa mereka walaupun basic. Malah ada yang anggap mereka 'kelas pekerja a.k.a bawahan' je. Jadi takde keperluan nak ambil tahu. Bagus juga idea ustaz ni. Masa ustaz cakap ni, ramai jemaah warga Bangladesh senyum je. Mereka faham apa ustaz tu cakap walau ada bunyi slang Kelate 😅. Itulah. Entah-entah masa kat akhirat nanti, Syurga mereka jauh lagi tinggi dari kita. Kita pandang mereka dengan rasa cemburu sepertimana mereka lihat kita sekarang.