There is a temptation to explain Donald Trump through politics alone, to treat every controversy as a disagreement about policy and every conflict as a battle between ideological camps. I think that temptation misses the more interesting story. Long before he became president, long before he became the Gold-Plated Custodian of Fragile Ego, there was a story he told about himself for decades, and the durability of the telling is more interesting than the event it describes. In the past, as a boy at the Kew-Forest School, he punched a music teacher, and the reason he has given over the years amounts to a claim that the teacher did not know anything about music and therefore had it coming. I have no way to confirm what actually happened in that classroom, and the boy who may or may not have thrown a punch is not the point. What holds my attention is that a man chose, across a lifetime of opportunities to tell a flattering origin story, to keep returning to this one. People reveal themselves not only in what they did, but in which version of themselves they decide is worth repeating.
Set the punch aside, then, and look at the architecture of the anecdote. A figure of authority, a teacher, is recast as a fraud who deserved to be physically corrected by someone who knew better. The asymmetry is total, and it runs entirely in the storyteller’s favor. There is no version in which the boy was wrong, no version in which the teacher had a point, no version that ends in anything other than the storyteller’s vindication. It is, in miniature, a story about a world in which superiority justifies dominance and dominance settles the question of who was right. I want to use it not as evidence of anything criminal or clinical, but as a doorway, because it raises the question that I think matters more than any policy position the man has ever held. What if the most important thing to understand about Donald Trump is not what he believes, but what he appears to experience as a threat?
I should say where I am standing, because it shapes what I can and cannot see. I was born in India, moved to the West in 2014, lived in the United States across two very different presidencies, and became a Canadian citizen in 2023. Those years gave me a strange kind of vantage point: close enough to feel the atmosphere from inside the room, far enough now to study the pattern without needing to belong to either side of America’s exhausting left-right theatre. Since moving north, I have spent years studying human behaviour, the way the nervous system handles threat, the mechanics of coercive control, the structures people build to defend an image of themselves, and the strange things groups will do to accommodate a single person who cannot tolerate being wrong.
I am not writing this to win an argument. I am not writing it to join the daily ritual of partisan combat. I am writing it because I have observed a particular pattern across different backgrounds, cultures, relationships, workplaces, families, communities, and public life. And after spending the last few years studying the in-depth work of Professor Sam Vaknin, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Professor John Mearsheimer, Dr. Gabor Maté, Robert Greene, author of The Laws of Human Nature, renowned neuroscientist Dr. Antonio Damasio, and other serious thinkers on psychology, trauma, political violence, power, coercion, and human behaviour, I have become convinced that the same pattern, scaled up and handed the instruments of government, explains more about the last decade of American politics than the usual vocabulary of policy and ideology can.
This is an attempt to understand a pattern, not to diagnose a person. It is an attempt to clear some of the collective fog that has been poured into public life for the last decade through division, humiliation, fear, hatred, and the oligarchic appetite of a small class of people who benefit when ordinary citizens stop trusting one another.
Because when a society is taught to doubt its own eyes, the work of understanding becomes more than intellectual. It becomes moral.
Before I begin the 12-part analysis, I want to be clear about what this essay is and what it is not.
I have heard psychologists in the United States, including Dr. John Gartner, argue publicly that Donald Trump shows signs of malignant narcissism and dangerous psychological impairment. I understand why that language attracts attention, especially after a decade in which his behaviour has felt less like ordinary politics and more like a repeated stress test of reality itself.
But after spending the last few years studying narcissistic patterns, trauma, coercive control, group behaviour, political violence, and the fragile architecture of the self, I have become less interested in the label and more interested in the pattern. Diagnosis may describe something, but it does not automatically change anything. A label does not stop the behaviour. It does not protect the public. It does not teach ordinary people how to recognize the manipulation, how to stay grounded, or how to make decisions without being pulled into someone else’s theatre of injury and revenge.
That is why this essay is not an attempt to diagnose Donald Trump. It is an attempt to understand the behavioural pattern around him: the image protection, the grievance, the domination, the loyalty tests, the narrative control, and the way criticism is turned into an attack on the critic instead of an invitation to examine the truth.
So what follows is my twelve-part analysis of a pattern I believe tells us something important about the most powerful man on the planet, and something even more important about the society that keeps accommodating him. Take what makes sense. Leave what does not. My purpose here is not to win every reader. My purpose is to offer a framework for understanding.
Let’s go!
1. This is why I keep going.
The analytics snapshot above is from June 15 to June 19, 2026, just a few days of activity, and it shows my research papers on human behaviour, ego regulation, threat-based control, relational harm, and identity rigidity being viewed and downloaded by readers and scholars from Greece, the United States, Brazil, Australia, Germany, Singapore, China, and beyond.
On the surface, it may look like a small analytics screenshot. To me, it says something much larger. People in different countries, with different histories and different political climates, are trying to understand the same human puzzle: why do human beings defend lies when truth is available, why do crowds surrender judgment to powerful personalities, and why do emotionally dysregulated people so often end up controlling rooms, relationships, institutions, and sometimes entire countries?
That is also why I keep paying attention to Trump’s erratic behaviour. Not because I enjoy the circus, but because the circus is teaching us something about the crowd, the mirror, the performance, and the human nervous system under political pressure. My work is not really about one man. It is about the pattern: ego rigidity, threat response, image protection, emotional contagion, loyalty tests, narrative control, and the strange way people slowly learn to doubt their own eyes when power keeps insisting that reality must be rewritten.
If you have ever wondered why I connect psychology, politics, leadership, trauma, narcissistic patterns, and collective behaviour, this is the reason. The public spectacle is only the most visible surface. Beneath it is a deeper human pattern hiding in plain sight.
2. Criticism as a threat to the self
Begin with criticism, because almost everything else seems to branch from it. For most people, criticism is unpleasant but survivable. It arrives, it stings, and somewhere underneath the sting a process begins in which the person weighs whether the criticism is fair, takes what is useful, and discards the rest. The self absorbs the blow and remains intact, because the self was never resting entirely on being beyond reproach.
What is striking in the public record of Donald Trump is how rarely criticism appears to be metabolized that way, and how reliably it triggers something closer to a threat response. A journalist writes an unflattering story and becomes an enemy of the people. A judge rules against him and becomes, in the telling, corrupt or compromised or mentally unwell. A former ally offers a single public disagreement and is converted, sometimes within a day, from a valued friend into a lowlife who was always overrated. The speed of the conversion is the tell. Reflection is slow; it requires sitting with the possibility that the other person might be partly right, which is precisely the possibility that seems intolerable. Retaliation is fast, and it does something reflection cannot. It changes the subject from the content of the criticism to the character of the critic.
This is the move worth watching, because it repeats across categories of people who otherwise have nothing in common. Reporters, prosecutors, opposing politicians, members of his own party, foreign heads of state, even the families of dead soldiers have at various points occupied the role of the critic who must be answered not with a counterargument but with degradation. The common thread is not their politics or their profession. The common thread is that each delivered some form of criticism, correction, or refusal, and each was met with a response engineered to make the criticism irrelevant by making the critic contemptible. When disagreement is consistently experienced as an attack on identity rather than a challenge to a position, the rational response to disagreement, which is to examine it, gets replaced by the defensive one, which is to destroy its source.
What makes the delusional ideologies of Donald Trump fascinating is not the frequency of the conflicts, but the remarkable consistency of what appears to trigger them.
3. The language of contamination
This brings me to the language itself, which deserves close attention rather than a weary catalogue, because the words are doing a specific kind of work. Over many years and across rallies, interviews, posts, and official statements, the vocabulary used for opponents has clustered with remarkable consistency around a single theme. People who cross him are not merely wrong or mistaken or misguided. They are scum, lowlifes, losers, dogs, rats, snakes, slimeballs, sleazebags, sick, deranged, crazy. The register is not the register of political disagreement. It is the register of disgust, of moral and even physical contamination.
That choice of register is significant, because disgust does something that ordinary criticism does not. To call an opponent wrong is to remain in a shared world where being wrong is something that could, in principle, happen to anyone, including you. To call an opponent a rat or a piece of filth is to expel them from that shared world entirely, to place them in a category beneath the conversation, where their arguments no longer require any response because the arguer has already been degraded. It is a rhetorical move that converts every disagreement into a contamination story, and contamination stories have a useful property for someone who cannot afford to be wrong. They make the question of whether the criticism was accurate disappear behind the more lurid question of how disgusting the critic is.
Watch how this functions and you stop seeing insults as mere crudeness and start seeing them as a mechanism. An insult of this kind is not an argument and is not really trying to be one. It is an instrument of status restoration. When someone has landed a blow, when a story or a ruling or a rebuke has threatened the image of invulnerability, the degrading label does the repair work. It re-establishes a hierarchy with the speaker safely on top and the critic cast down into the mud, and it invites the audience to join in the casting down, which converts a private wound into a public ritual of dominance. The targets, again, span every category of person, from powerful institutions to private citizens who happened to say the wrong thing on television, and the consistency of the technique across such different targets is what makes it look less like a series of spontaneous reactions and more like a stable way of handling threat. A democracy can metabolize a great deal, but something shifts when this becomes the normal grammar of political communication, when a generation learns by daily example that the way to answer a challenge is not to meet it but to defile the person who raised it.
4. Grievance that never expires (The Barack Quote Unquote Hussein Obama)
Then there is the matter of grievance, and specifically the way certain grievances appear to remain psychologically active long after any practical reason for keeping them alive has passed. Most political rivalries have a half-life. The campaign ends, the office is won or lost, and the energy that went into the fight gets redirected toward governing or toward the next contest. What is unusual in this case is how often old conflicts seem to stay warm, returning in speeches and posts years after the opponent has left the stage, as though the original wound never fully closed.
The name of a long-defeated election opponent surfaces at rallies that have nothing to do with him. A predecessor’s name is invoked with a heat that suggests the rivalry is ongoing rather than historical, the bruise picked at again and again as if to confirm it still hurts. This is the behaviour of someone for whom the grievance is not a strategic asset to be deployed when useful, but something closer to a permanent feature of the inner landscape, a score that can never quite be settled because the thing being avenged was never really about the policy or the election in the first place. It was about the intolerable fact of having been opposed, doubted, or bested, and that kind of injury does not heal on the ordinary schedule. It is here that the theme of one of my earlier essays becomes relevant, the sense that a country can find itself governed by a man who treats his own embarrassment as a matter of national urgency, where a perceived slight from years ago can still shape the priorities of the present because the slight was filed, psychologically, in the same drawer as a genuine emergency.
The pattern begins to resemble something less like strategy and more like the operating manual of America’s Chief Emotional Support President, where personal embarrassment repeatedly acquires public consequences.
5. Destruction as a kind of relief (JCPOA)
A related pattern shows up in the relationship to predecessors’ achievements, and it raises an uncomfortable question about whether removal itself is sometimes the goal rather than a means to some other end. There is a recognizable form of governing in which the point of an action is the positive thing it builds. There is another form in which the most emotionally satisfying actions appear to be the ones that undo what someone else built, particularly someone whose very existence as a successful predecessor constitutes a standing comparison.
Consider the pattern abstractly, since the specific cases are matters you can document through the public record. A major diplomatic agreement negotiated by a predecessor is withdrawn from. Offices and initiatives associated with a prior administration are dismantled or reversed. In each instance there is a stated policy rationale, and in each instance the policy rationale may even have merit worth debating. But the pattern across many such reversals invites a question that no single reversal would. Is the construction of something better consistently the aim, or does the act of removal sometimes carry its own charge, independent of what replaces it? Tearing down what another person made is a way of asserting that they were never as important as they seemed, that their legacy was provisional and exists at your pleasure. For someone organized around the avoidance of comparison, dismantling a rival’s monument can function as a form of self-regulation, a way of removing the unbearable suggestion that someone else did something that mattered and that will outlast you.
6. When possession becomes permission
There is another pattern worth naming carefully: the belief that having something, controlling something, or being near something important somehow changes the rules around it. In ordinary life, possession does not erase limits. Owning a house does not mean you can ignore the law inside it. Holding a document does not automatically mean you are entitled to keep it. Running an organization does not mean every person inside it becomes an extension of your will. But in this pattern, possession begins to feel like permission, and permission begins to feel like exemption.
Stated simply, the logic runs like this: if I have it, if it is in my house, if it is under my control, if it is connected to my name, then the ordinary constraints that would apply to anyone else become negotiable. The thing is mine, and mine becomes a category that sits above the rules.
This is why the disputes over classified documents at Mar-a-Lago matter beyond the legal particulars. The deeper pattern was not merely about boxes, files, storage rooms, or procedure. It was about a familiar entitlement structure: if the documents were in his possession, in his club, under his control, then the rules that would bind anyone else appeared, in his telling, to become negotiable. The same pattern shows up in the broader language of ownership around public power: my generals, my judges, my Justice Department, my country, my movement. Public institutions are spoken of less as independent structures with their own obligations and more as personal instruments that should bend toward the will of the person at the center.
You can see the shape of this logic in the way disputes over documents, property, secrecy, personal conduct, and the boundaries of permissible behaviour have recurred over the years. The specifics belong to court records and public reporting, and anyone making factual claims about those matters should confirm them against primary sources. What interests me here is the deeper assumption beneath the disputes: the idea that external limits are not really limits if the person in question feels entitled enough to override them.
This is another expression of the same difficulty with being subject to anything outside the self. A rule is a form of external authority. Accepting it means accepting that something other than your own will gets to define what is permitted. For a person who experiences external constraint as a threat, the move to “but it’s mine” is not just a legal argument or a personal complaint. It is a psychological escape hatch. It dissolves the authority of the rule by retreating into the authority of ownership.
And once ownership becomes a substitute for accountability, democracy starts entering very strange territory. Because the law can only function when people accept that possession is not sovereignty, control is not entitlement, and power does not magically convert public limits into private preferences.
7. Loyalty in the place where trust should be
The pattern extends into the texture of relationships themselves, especially into the difference between trust and loyalty. Trust is built slowly. It comes from consistency, honesty, competence, and the knowledge that another person can disagree with you without becoming your enemy. Loyalty, at its healthiest, grows out of that trust. It is freely given because the relationship has earned it.
But there is another kind of loyalty, and it operates very differently. It is not earned through trust. It is demanded in place of trust. It flows in one direction. It asks for protection, praise, silence, defense, and obedience, while offering very little real safety in return. The demand for loyalty becomes loudest precisely where trust has not actually been built. This is why Trump’s repeated demand for personal loyalty matters beyond ordinary politics. The issue is not that leaders value loyalty. Every leader does. The issue is what kind of loyalty is being requested. In a healthy public institution, loyalty belongs first to the Constitution, the law, the office, the public, and the truth. In this pattern, loyalty is redirected toward the person at the center. The question becomes less “Did you do the right thing?” and more “Did you protect me?”
The public record is full of relationships that follow this arc. An associate is brought close, praised extravagantly, described as brilliant, strong, loyal, the best, and then, after some disagreement, refusal, investigation, testimony, correction, or failure to provide the required deference, that same person is cast out and recategorized as weak, disloyal, stupid, overrated, corrupt, or someone who was never really good in the first place. The transformation can be astonishingly fast. Yesterday’s genius becomes today’s traitor, not because their entire character changed overnight, but because their usefulness to the image changed. You can see this pattern in the long list of former officials, lawyers, advisers, cabinet members, prosecutors, judges, journalists, and political allies who were praised when they reflected the desired image and degraded when they stopped doing so. The details differ from case to case, but the emotional structure is familiar: closeness is rewarded when it provides agreement, protection, and admiration; distance or disagreement is punished when it introduces reality back into the room.
What this suggests is that the people involved may have been valued less for who they were than for what they provided: agreement, loyalty, image protection, and the absence of challenge. Loyalty in this configuration is not the natural product of mutual trust. It is a substitute for it, a way of securing through demand and dependency what cannot be secured through the riskier business of being genuinely known by an equal who might sometimes disagree with you and stay anyway. This is the grammar of coercive control as it appears in families, workplaces, intimate relationships, movements, and institutions. The scale changes, but the emotional structure remains recognizable. The underlying need is the same: to be surrounded by people whose continued presence depends on their continued agreement.
And once loyalty replaces trust, truth becomes dangerous. Because truth does not promise obedience. Truth does not flatter on command. Truth does not ask whether it is convenient before it enters the room. That is why systems built around personal loyalty eventually become hostile to reality itself.
8. The fear underneath the aggression
All of this points toward what I think is the most important reframing the pattern allows: the possibility that the aggression so visible on the surface is functioning as protection for something far more vulnerable underneath. It is tempting, watching the relentless dominance displays, to read them as evidence of a powerful and secure ego. The behavioural pattern suggests something close to the opposite. Trump does not appear to fear enemies nearly as much as he fears mirrors. Enemies can be attacked, mocked, sued, intimidated, degraded, or dismissed. Mirrors are more dangerous because they return information he cannot fully control. Journalists, judges, whistleblowers, former allies, prosecutors, historians, and even election results often seem to function less as ordinary opponents than as reflections. They show him something he does not want shown. And reflections are difficult to negotiate with because they keep presenting the same image whether you approve of it or not.
This is why criticism, correction, accountability, and humiliation seem to belong to the same emotional family inside the pattern. Each one threatens the image. Each one introduces an outside reality that cannot be fully managed by performance. Each one carries the possibility of exposure, not merely political defeat, but something more personal: the experience of being seen without the costume. Consider what the nervous system does when it perceives a threat. It mobilizes for defense. One of the oldest forms of defense is to make oneself large, loud, and frightening so that the threat retreats before it can reach the thing being protected. Aggression, in this frame, is not the same as strength. It is often what fragility looks like when it has access to power. It keeps shame, rejection, and the unbearable possibility of being small at a safe distance by making sure everyone else is kept smaller.
The constant need to dominate, to win every exchange, to never concede a point, to never apologize, to never say the four words that would end the performance, “I got it wrong,” makes a different kind of sense once you stop reading it as confidence and start reading it as threat management. The threat never fully recedes because the threat is not only outside him. It is internal. It is the mirror, the correction, the record, the witness, the fact that refuses to flatter. If the avoidance of humiliation has become more important than the pursuit of what is actually true, then every situation becomes a potential humiliation to be preempted. The preemption looks, from the outside, like endless aggression. But underneath the aggression may be something much less grand than strength: a person defending an image that cannot survive ordinary accountability.
The question this raises is a sad one. What does power become when its primary use is not to accomplish things in the world, but to protect a person from the experience of being shamed?
9. The pattern of taking
There is a thread connecting many of these behaviours that has to do with taking.
Taking credit, taking attention, taking symbolic victories, taking control of the narrative, and sometimes taking ownership of realities that do not belong entirely to him. At first glance, this can look like ordinary ambition, vanity, or greed. But the pattern becomes more interesting once you stop seeing the taking as merely strategic and start seeing it as a form of emotional regulation.
Ambition wants things in the world for what they are. It wants the office, the deal, the achievement, the victory, the applause. But this pattern seems to require something more continuous. It looks like a need to absorb supply from the environment in order to maintain an internal state that cannot maintain itself. The world must keep providing praise, attention, deference, and visible winning, because without those inputs, the image begins to deflate.
This is why credit for a success that belonged partly or wholly to others gets claimed. The claim is not only useful. It repairs the image. This is why attention is pursued with an intensity that often exceeds any obvious strategic purpose. Attention itself becomes fuel. This is why symbolic victories are declared even where no real victory occurred, because the declaration does regulatory work regardless of whether it is true. The announcement matters because it creates the feeling of triumph before reality has a chance to object. You can see the shape of it in the constant need to be the creator, the rescuer, the winner, the victim, the genius, the only one who could have done it, and the only one being unfairly denied credit for doing it. The role changes depending on the moment, but the taking remains the same. If something succeeds, it must somehow reflect him. If something fails, it must somehow belong to someone else. If reality is unflattering, reality itself must be taken apart and rearranged into something more useful.
Seen this way, the taking is not primarily about greed in the ordinary sense. It is about a self that requires constant external input to stay inflated: applause, loyalty, deference, dominance, visible winning, and the repeated assurance that the person at the center is still large enough to fill the room. Any reduction in that input feels like deflation, and deflation has to be reversed by taking more. It is a costly way to live, because it depends on a world that has to keep supplying the materials. Enough can never really be enough, because the thing being filled has no bottom. And when a political system begins feeding that emptiness instead of containing it, the public becomes less like a citizenry and more like an emotional supply chain, delivering attention, outrage, loyalty, excuses, and applause to a performance that can never end.
10. The real opponent may be equality
Underneath all of these patterns I think there is a single structure, and naming it is the closest I can come to the center of this. The recurring struggle may not really be against any particular opponent at all. It may be against equality itself, against any situation in which no one can be compelled to agree.
Consider what an equal relationship actually permits. An equal can criticize you and you cannot simply expel them from the conversation. An equal can disagree and remain, can reject your version of events without being destroyed for it, can hold you accountable because they are not dependent on your favor. Equality, in other words, is the condition under which all the intolerable things become possible: criticism that cannot be silenced, correction that cannot be evaded, the permanent possibility of being told you are wrong by someone who does not need anything from you and therefore cannot be controlled. For a person organized around the avoidance of exactly those experiences, equality is not a value to be celebrated. It is the underlying threat from which most of the specific threats derive.
This is why the same pattern shows up wherever genuine equality and independence live. A free press is a structure that can criticize without permission. An independent judiciary is a structure that can rule against you without consequence to itself. A democratic system is, at its core, a machine for ensuring that no single person can force agreement, that power must be contested and that the contest is real. Each of these is an institutional form of the equal relationship, and each generates the same friction in someone who cannot abide being unable to compel agreement. The conflict with journalists, judges, and democratic constraints starts to look less like a series of separate political fights and more like a single underlying conflict with the very condition that those institutions exist to protect, which is a world where you can be told no and the no has to stand.
11. The world Loved you, America, until you normalized way too much.
Democracies have survived difficult leaders before. The more uncomfortable question is why so many institutions learned to reorganize themselves around protecting one Emperor of Grievance from experiences most adults eventually learn to tolerate: criticism, correction, embarrassment, accountability, and the ordinary experience of being told no.
The pattern only becomes historically significant when institutions, parties, companies, media organizations, and millions of people begin accommodating one person’s inability to be wrong. That accommodation is the real story, because it rarely arrives as surrender. It arrives as small, reasonable-seeming adjustments: one politician avoids a confrontation, one media outlet softens a frame, one company steps back from an argument, one supporter explains away what they privately know is hard to defend.
Each individual adjustment may seem understandable. Each person is responding to the incentives in front of them. But enough small adjustments eventually become a system. A society slowly rearranges itself around protecting one man from the word no. That is where the psychology becomes uncomfortable. A person who cannot tolerate being wrong is usually contained by equals, friends who push back, institutions that do not bend, laws that apply, and consequences that arrive on schedule. What removes that containment is the collective decision to stop holding the line because, in each individual moment, accommodation feels easier than confrontation.
The tragedy is not only that one man could not say, “I got it wrong.” The tragedy is that an entire nation kept making room for his refusal.
12. The question that remains.
The recurring question was never whether Donald Trump seeks power. Of course he does. Many people seek power. The more interesting question is what he appears to experience as a threat, and how often criticism, accountability, equality, rejection, embarrassment, and humiliation seem to occupy the same psychological category, triggering the same cycle of retaliation, narrative revision, degradation, and grievance.
The man who could not be wrong was always going to be a challenge. The larger mystery is why so many people decided to help. History may ultimately remember Donald Trump, the man who turned embarrassment into public policy, as less important than the institutions, organizations, media figures, political allies, and ordinary citizens who repeatedly chose accommodation over confrontation. One person’s inability to tolerate being wrong can only travel so far on its own. The rest of the distance requires a great many people deciding that looking away is easier than holding the line.
Written independently, from Canada, as an attempt to understand a behavioural pattern rather than diagnosing Donald Trump. Where this essay gestures at specific events, they are matters of public record and reporting that readers should confirm against primary sources before citing; the argument here concerns patterns of observable behaviour and collective response, not clinical or medical claims about any person.
The views expressed in this research series, articles, podcasts, and related media are based on publicly available information, behavioural analysis, historical context, and matters of public interest. All references are intended for commentary, critical inquiry, and public discourse protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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This will probably remain my closing reflection for the foreseeable future.
Do what you need to do to feel better.
Seriously.
Step away from the noise when you need to.
The outrage machine will still be running tomorrow.
A lot of people are mentally exhausted right now, even if they don’t openly admit it. Too much stimulation. Too much division. Too much fear, anger, pressure, and nonstop information hitting the nervous system every single day.
You do not need to carry the weight of the entire world at once.
Go outside.
Talk to people you love.
Read something meaningful.
Breathe properly.
Get some sleep.
Reconnect with parts of yourself that existed before algorithms, politics, and constant emotional overload started competing for your attention.
And most importantly, do not lose your humanity while trying to survive the chaos of modern life.
We need more regulated human beings right now, not more emotionally reactive ones.
We are all trying to understand this together, and understanding may be the first honest act left in a time built to keep us confused.
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