Diogo

[Diogo @_leal7]

🕉️

[ૐ @BirkinAura]

obsessed with myself and my life.

[y @ysuckme]

some people need to lose access to you permanently.

[Rita @hellorita97]

Meu deus, surpreendo-me sempre quando me lembro que ainda há disto em Portugal em pleno 2026

[y @ysuckme]

sometimes you need silence to hear your own voice.

[Deion 𓋹 @CalmDeion]

Radical optimism will change your life.

[bitxh @notreallyabitxh]

tu literalmente andaste a dizer nomes de crianças para atacar politicamente imigrantes. És um monstro e uma vergonha para Portugal

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

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.

[Rita @hellorita97]

I ❤️ Portugal

[Rita @hellorita97]

Esta malta da Marcha Pela Vida é a primeira a dizer “deixem as crianças longe das vossas ideologias perigosas” (a.k.a educação sexual, por exemplo) mas depois metem-nas numa marcha a segurar cartazes bizarros

[Vanessa 🌹 @aVanRitz]

Enquanto isso há gente a passar fome; sem médico de família; com dificuldades em pagar rendas

[República GALAICA @RodriguesAValve]

Confeitaria Império (Rua Fernandes Tomás, 775, Porto) foi palco do encontro de supremacistas brancos.

[` @lisaawrites]

i believe in re-reading and re-watching your favourite books & movies at different stages of your life.the plot never changes, but your perspective does.

[‎Wojak Codes @wojakcodes]

we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

[Gonçalo Piroca de Cavalo @theumilk99]

música é a melhor coisa do mundo, parece que nao encaixa na realidade como o resto das coisas

[blue @bluewmist]

the older i get the more i realise happiness is quiet mornings, a clean space, early nights, a safe home and people who don’t drain my energy.

[Fan promedio del reggaetón @FanDelReggaet0n]

Este es el PEAK del género urbano, cada álbum que salió en 2019-2020 era joya asegurada

[Vee 🇨🇻🦈 @dvmbspoet]

quiseram entregar a cidade aos turistas, agora é lidar com o café horrendo e caríssimo dos starbucks desta vida e as tostas embaladas

[Kevin Fernandes @kevinaraujof]

So Prestianni's 'defence' for racism was admitting homophobia?

[revs @revsbb]

sabes que a Carolina faz algo de bom e que o que faz funciona quando irrita todos os machos de ego frágil do twitter