Mir

idk

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

SEE, I WAS IN THE TRENCHES

[🎀 planet clarke 🎀 @planetclarke]

“Women have a hard time submitting to men because it’s hard for Gods to submit to their own creations” altered my brain chemistry a little bit ngl

[ً @prinkasusa]

"We don't need feminists
anymore."

785 husbands were killed by wives over 5 years but 800 wives are killed by husbands every 30 days.

[✰🧃 @AddictKE_]

i think twitter has the smartest people out of all of the social medias

[♰ 𝙽𝚊𝚎𝚝𝚘 @fw_naetoblaq]

Me quietly dealing with something that clearly affected me more than I’ll ever admit.

[hunter @3gpmh]

i once tried journaling but it looked like i was writing a suicide note

[Zoya🕊️ @Zoya_ki_batein]

One of my students (5yo boy) and his 6yo friend chased a 5yo girl at school today. Then, they held her hands down and kissed her without consent. She slapped both in response.
The school suspended the 5-year-old girl.

[Mir @Mirrjem]

@dreahthegreat nm u? :l

[Ali🌹 @_omalichaa]

there are beautiful horny women being forced into celibacy due to the utter lack of worthy people in existence

[shy fawkes @butterbooter]

when God puts me in strange and terrifying situations, I see myself as a cat going to the vet. it’s good for me somehow, I say, or else someone who loves me wouldn’t have taken me there

[𝓲𝓬𝓮 @be_like_ice]

When you forget to keep your mind busy and suddenly get flashbacks of everything you survived.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A lab at Michigan put people in a brain scanner, burned their arms with a hot probe, and then showed them photos of their ex. The scans came back almost identical, an 88% match. That was 40 people who'd all been through breakups they didn't want, and it proved what anyone who's been left already knows in their body: the pain is physical. Your brain runs heartbreak through the same wiring it uses for a burn.

The tweet says "you have to stop liking them," like there is a switch somewhere you flip and it stops. There isn't one.

Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers, scanned 15 people who'd recently been dumped. Two months later, every one of them was still spending over 85% of their waking hours thinking about the person who left. When Fisher showed them a photo of whoever dumped them, the part of the brain that produces dopamine (your "I want more of this" chemical) and the craving center both fired. Same circuits as cocaine.

Fisher calls what happens next "frustration attraction." When your brain expects a reward and the reward gets yanked away, dopamine doesn't calm down. It spikes. Same wiring that makes a gambler throw more money at a losing hand makes a heartbroken person obsess harder. Evolution did this on purpose. Losing a mate meant your genes died with you, so the brain learned to cling harder when it should have been letting go.

Fisher's argument: love is a drive, not a feeling. Same category as hunger and thirst, right next door in the brain. You can't talk yourself out of being hungry. You can white-knuckle it, but the craving doesn't leave because you told it to.

After a breakup, cortisol (your body's alarm bell) floods in and can stay high for months. Serotonin, which keeps your mood stable and stops your thoughts from looping, drops. An Italian study in the late '90s found that people who were madly in love had serotonin levels that looked like people with OCD. When someone loves you back, that obsession reads as devotion. When they don't, it is a loop you can't think your way out of.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky found that taking Tylenol every day for three weeks made people feel less social pain. Brain scans backed it up. The same pill that fixes a headache can take the edge off a breakup, because your brain runs both kinds of pain through the same hardware.

Full recovery takes about 18 to 24 months, going by Fisher's numbers. That is how long the dopamine system needs to stop searching for someone who is gone and to build a new version of normal without them in it.

You don't "decide" to get over someone the way you decide to quit a job or sell a car. You sit there and wait for a chemical withdrawal to run its course while your own brain fights you, keeps firing, keeps reaching for a fix that is not coming. And when the weight lifts one day and you go a whole afternoon without thinking about them, that is just chemistry. A very old, very blind piece of biological machinery, finally running out of fuel.

[Hlovo @hlovo_]

Now I need to see how bad Monica Lewinsky was

[𝓓𝓸𝓬_𝔃𝓮𝓮 ✧ @doc_zee7]

When I forget to keep my mind busy and suddenly get flashback of everything I survived

[⋆ @lowkeyalbert]

i confuse people. i have a happy personality and a sad soul. i’m bold but shy. i love deeply but sometimes i feel heartless. i’m healing and hurting at the same time. i’m dedicated to growth, but i self sabotage.

[AA ⚡️#VIP-110 @AAStack]

Me realizing that the Epstein files were so bad, they started WW3 and faked another moon mission.

[𝕯eon @chiplichipli2k]

when someone asks me about the last two years but it's been filled with nothing but lessons about the art of letting go