Debbie Campbell

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford psychiatrist says modern anxiety is not caused by danger.

It's caused by tiny habits that teach your brain to panic when nothing is actually wrong.

You do them every day.
And you call them normal.

6 normal habits quietly teaching your nervous system to panic:▼▼▼

1/ Reaching for your phone the moment you feel uncomfortable.

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

None of these are character flaws.

They're protection patterns — learned adaptations your nervous system built to survive overstimulation.

The problem is they're now running the show.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@harryjsisson Name taken (stolen?) from a Canadian Satiric show called This hour has 22 Minutes. It was funny and so typically Canadian.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance.

You have to see this.

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@Sixtytwoer @NBCNews It wasn’t prevalent until I was in high school and then could not afford it. Today’s kids have had boxed foods since birth.

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@Rightanglenews I guess it’s ok to just do it and not hide it like Trump did. Make that make sense.

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@DrNeilStone I wish you would post something that talks about it too…not just a short statement.

[Anonymously Enlightening @A_enlightening]

4/2/26 Was Bondi fired or just moved to another position to completely silence the Epstein Files?
#anonymous #anonymouslyenlightening #weareanonymous #expectus #awake

[ALLATRA @allatra_org]

Microplastics are already inside us and they are affecting our health. Professor Ragusa explains where the real problem lies and why it's not just about plastic. Are you ready to find out what each of us needs to do to solve this problem?

For more details, follow the link.

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@nationalpost Pretty bad when saying someone behaved well is lauded. Times are crazy right now.

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@SRuhle @MSNOWNews I too wonder and hope you asked him the questions we all want answers to. I always liked your show but hope you don’t disappoint us.

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@FoxNews Good age for military service!

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@SenFettermanPA Travel is so much more important than democracy…..

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@ForecasterEnten Someone needs to investigate… im sure Trump or the Russians must have something on him….like many of the other cowards doing trumps will even though they know history is not on their side.

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@SenFettermanPA You are not a democratic so stop pretending

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@BBCWorld What an embarrassment he is to my country

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@MaryLTrump Russians must have something on him too

[Debbie Campbell @DebCampbe11]

@DrNealDunnFL2 @DHSgov I’m so sorry for what you were going through but I hope you have an epiphany and get on the right side of history