the news of war in ukraine has likely
taken over your brain today and this is
why your body is controlled by your
nervous system which is acted on by
hormones these hormones are released by
glands in your body and they can control
your behavior and physiology when you
read about an impending war your brain
releases corticotropin releasing hormone
this then goes to your pituitary gland
where it releases a hormone called acth
which then goes to the glands on top of
your kidneys the adrenal glands to
release adrenaline and noradrenaline
reading about this war releases
adrenaline and noradrenaline it makes
you hyper focused it makes you
physiologically aroused and it is for
this reason that the news of this war
can hijack your brain and it can become
really hard to not think about it
essentially you're arousing your body
it's also why sometimes you can have the
sadistic feeling that bad news is a
little bit addictive because it's
actually again creating a specific
physiological arousal in your body that
makes it hard to focus on anything else