Jay Shaw explains why scrolling TikTok and binge-watching feel relaxing but actually keep your nervous system in stress mode. Your body treats endless scrolling like a fight-or-flight response, leaving you waking up exhausted even after hours of unwinding.
But in these more modern days, fight can look like a passive-aggressive email. Flight can look like scrolling on TikTok, acting like your life isn't falling apart when you know it's things you need to be doing. So a lot of times, well, Jay, I'm just unwinding. I'm just watching. You know, I work hard. I'm just watching a little TV. No, you actually in flight. You actually in freeze. You actually out of your parasympathetic nervous system and you're stressed. That's why you're waking up tired and you're doing things that should be regenerating you and you still tired because you You're in fight or flight.
