rachelflowers
rachel flowers

What if many modern “disorders” are not so much innate flaws in people, but normal human responses to an abnormal environment?
Here are some angles to consider:
1. The world has changed faster than our brains
• For 99% of human history, life was slow-paced, tied to nature, and stimuli were limited (firelight, birdsong, face-to-face conversation).
• In the last 10–15 years, we’ve had an explosion of smartphones, social media, 24/7 notifications, LED lighting, background music in every store, billboards, fast-moving visuals, etc.
• Our nervous systems simply didn’t evolve for this constant, layered sensory input.
2. Overstimulation vs. ADHD
• ADHD is often framed as a “disorder of attention,” but another way to look at it is: the world is now a constant barrage of competing inputs, so being scattered is a logical response.
• In environments with fewer stimuli, what we call “ADHD symptoms” might actually disappear or lessen. (There are studies showing kids with ADHD often thrive in outdoor, movement-based, or highly engaging hands-on settings).
3. Medicalization of normal responses
• Psychiatry often labels traits as “disorders” when they clash with societal expectations (e.g., needing to sit still in a classroom for 8 hours, or focusing on boring computer tasks).
• But maybe the problem isn’t the person—it’s the environment and the system demanding unnatural levels of attention, productivity, and sensory endurance.
4. Stress as a modern epidemic
• Rising diagnoses of ADHD, anxiety, depression, and sensory processing issues may all be signals of the same root problem: humans living in overstimulating, disconnected, artificial environments.
• What looks like “mental illness” could actually be a culture-level mismatch.
5. The double bind
• Because the system isn’t changing anytime soon, people seek diagnoses and medications as coping tools just to function in this hyper-stimulating society.
• But if society itself is sick, then diagnosis is partly a way of adapting individuals to tolerate unhealthy conditions, rather than addressing the root cause.
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EXAMPLES: Neurasthenia & Railroad spine.

2025-09-24 19:48:26 UTC

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I wear sunglasses at night because of these LED headlights. Its become insane. We live in such an abnormal environment that we will end up seeing so many “disorders” because our nervous systems cannot keep up.

2025-09-23 12:47:54 UTC

Can we all collectively rebuke these god awful white LED lights lol

2025-09-15 16:02:39 UTC

happy
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2025-09-11 18:24:54 UTC

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Do it!

2025-09-11 18:20:28 UTC

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righteous war!!!!!!

2025-08-30 21:00:15 UTC

Etymology is so important🗣️

2025-08-30 20:56:26 UTC

Me every time I see fungi
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2025-08-30 20:51:25 UTC

I’m back on shaping my life vision intentionally & I love it. So, my free times look like this.
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2025-08-22 04:05:58 UTC

Im a lover of beautiful woodwork
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2025-08-12 19:06:36 UTC

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did you jinx me, i woke up with one this morning🤣😭

2025-08-11 21:14:44 UTC

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It purges the liver!

2025-08-11 19:15:24 UTC

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What are the wooden towers?

2025-08-11 19:14:56 UTC

has anyone here experienced amazing benefits from coffee enemas?

2025-08-11 13:50:49 UTC

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Yes. They take a tally of who opts out lol

2025-08-11 05:50:57 UTC

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Prayers💗

2025-08-11 05:50:21 UTC

The fact that trump changed the law regarding taking our shoes off at airport security, yet we have fkn face scanners now. Hm

2025-08-11 04:52:02 UTC

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Leveling up

2025-08-11 04:49:43 UTC

amen
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2025-08-11 01:43:54 UTC

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2025-07-26 03:34:19 UTC

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As I always say, government cheese

2025-07-22 02:07:00 UTC

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I used to suffffffer from migraines. To the point I don’t even like that word because I get the worst feeling even reading/hearing it. But sometimes I was able to stop them from walking barefoot early on before it was full blown. 🤲🏼

2025-07-20 03:42:19 UTC

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2025-07-18 18:35:50 UTC

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I was just thinking about this the other day.

2025-07-18 13:51:29 UTC

Times are ramping up
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2025-07-15 03:39:42 UTC

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Yewwww

2025-07-12 14:40:12 UTC

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Yay welcome💗🏄🏼‍♀️🫧🌞

2025-07-07 20:54:06 UTC

@npub1qn0…x7lf
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2025-07-02 05:00:13 UTC

the sweetness of summer
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2025-06-27 05:57:21 UTC

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Weird. I tried zapping this & it failed twice.

2025-06-10 23:30:20 UTC

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Ewwwww

2025-06-08 21:09:38 UTC

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2025-06-06 15:00:48 UTC

Every single one of their podcasts is insane
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2025-06-04 01:18:51 UTC

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Ahhh, good to see your words again
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2025-06-04 01:09:40 UTC

Rampant destruction for mindless profits. Removal of the experience of beauty. Removal of the experience and connection with God. Steralizing nature. Fight to keep the lands natural. Keep the country country. Beauty is the way back in.

2025-05-08 14:31:36 UTC

@thewarkitchen
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2025-04-29 04:46:01 UTC

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🤣

2025-04-27 20:22:16 UTC

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Lettttterrrr rip!!

2025-04-24 04:49:49 UTC

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Yes, I never allowed this shot or anything at all! Never will.. stay strong mama’s, trust God.

2025-04-24 04:48:55 UTC

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You have one of the best accʻs on this platform imo

2025-04-21 03:31:04 UTC

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These would make some gorgeous lei’s

2025-04-10 21:24:58 UTC

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Amennnnnnn

2025-04-06 02:51:51 UTC

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What goes around, comes around. Cycles cycles cycles.

2025-04-02 16:48:18 UTC

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🤠 YEAAA

2025-04-01 03:05:20 UTC

When’s the last time you saw the inside of a strawberry this red? 🍓
We picked 11 lbs of strawberries today, and it filled me with so much joy! Oooh how much I love picking fresh fruit—there’s just something so sweet about it
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2025-03-30 02:30:12 UTC

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Bingo baby

2025-03-30 02:29:55 UTC

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Loving these posts!!

2025-03-30 01:48:48 UTC

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Sooooo beautiful, thank you so much for sharing that. Gods love shown through the ones closest to us is an incredible gift..

2025-03-30 01:47:26 UTC

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God bless you, sweetheart!!

2025-03-30 01:46:26 UTC

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I love this SO much. “Everyone you look at is someone who God loves” is a quote I heard that struck me and I too changed. I look at people differently because of it.
When you say, you saw in the mirror the way God loves you, what was it that you saw?
“The love of God is not some trivial force or emotion, it is the transforming power that holds the universe together.” 🔥🔥🔥 that hit

2025-03-29 23:30:44 UTC

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I absolutely love that you found comfort in those ways. I relate. I havenʻt written poetry in awhile but you saying that sparked something.
Sending you love. Weʻre all in this together and connected in one way or another. Thank you so much for your kind words and reaching out, I feel uplifted & touched by it🫂

2025-03-29 23:03:29 UTC

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I feel it now reading this, simply because you held space in your heart to pray for me about that. That carries some weight for me and I am deeply touched that you cared enough to do that for me, as I am somewhat of a stranger. To be vulnerable, I actually started to weep reading your reply. A note came to mind and it was the “craving love” post. Feeling Godʻs love through others.

2025-03-29 22:50:55 UTC

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This is an old photo, maybe two years ago. That was me reflecting on a time when life felt beautiful. Life has ebbs and flows, sometimes we end up in the valleys.
Gratitude, thanks for that reminder.

2025-03-29 22:38:37 UTC

Would someone be open to share with me what the most sincere form of care that theyʻve felt is? Whether it be from someone, or a miracle that felt like God‘s hand that softened your heart to an incredible degree.
I ask this because right now I am struggling to feel or recognize Godʻs love in my life

2025-03-28 23:17:55 UTC

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😮‍💨

2025-03-28 02:33:14 UTC

yes, go get in that sauna

2025-03-28 02:24:53 UTC

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Thanks so much for this. I’m fascinated.

2025-03-28 02:14:54 UTC

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Awe! Big? Thatʻs wild. In hawaii we get the manini ones.
I loved doing that!!! Well, looking in the tide pools in the lava. Especially at night! it was my favorite thing ever, like meeting a bunch of alien friends

2025-03-28 01:49:26 UTC

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Coolest critters ever.

2025-03-27 23:41:09 UTC

born is the heʻe living in the sea
#oceanstr
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2025-03-27 05:20:20 UTC

I know how to make myself look, but I donʻt know how to make myself see

2025-03-18 00:21:57 UTC

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Haha well thatʻs ok, just hopefully not for everyday wear, natural fibers is the way mate

2025-03-16 23:55:26 UTC

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HAHAHAHHA amazing

2025-03-16 16:54:26 UTC

I think weʻre all finally starting to agree wearing plastic bags for clothing is donezo

2025-03-16 15:28:07 UTC

born for this
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2025-03-16 04:01:57 UTC

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😂

2025-03-15 03:58:49 UTC

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Thats a good man!!

2025-03-10 04:13:32 UTC

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needed this lovely song. God bless you. Currently crying in bed now lol

2025-03-10 00:32:26 UTC

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With even all the twists and turns🩵

2025-03-07 15:09:22 UTC

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He just said this
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2025-03-07 14:44:54 UTC

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Love this community, thanks for this convo💌

2025-03-07 14:43:18 UTC

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Iʻll give it a listen, thx 💌

2025-03-07 14:42:41 UTC

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I definitely have had my nerves about richard, and iʻm glad I can hop on here and get some other perspectives on this dude.

2025-03-07 05:07:09 UTC

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Bitcoin lovers haaaaaate this guy

2025-03-07 04:59:53 UTC

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Hearrrrin ya

2025-03-07 04:35:08 UTC

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Have you dove into this yourself of is this more mainstream narative? My friend seems so convinced heʻs a good guy

2025-03-07 04:21:50 UTC

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REALLY? Please tell me moreeeeee🥲🫠

2025-03-07 04:09:36 UTC

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I hear you, and I really appreciate all youʻve said. Iʻm newish to crypto so.. learning. Do you know of richard hart, if you do would you share your thoughts on pulsechain?

2025-03-07 03:56:25 UTC

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2025-03-07 03:51:56 UTC

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wow, this is impeccable.

2025-03-07 03:41:17 UTC

Anyone wanna make a comment?
#bitcoin
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2025-03-06 21:39:58 UTC

keep the country, country

2025-03-05 14:48:18 UTC

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Are you still at bocas?

2025-03-05 02:21:22 UTC

to create a new life, just for that little life to create you
#35mm
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2025-03-05 00:22:55 UTC

the good ole teen days when my mind was deep in plant study
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2025-03-03 14:38:15 UTC

i love when my aussie friends send wave vids unasked, cycloneeee
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2025-03-02 23:32:17 UTC

two sides of the same coin
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2025-03-02 03:20:00 UTC

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Needed this

2025-02-28 15:21:14 UTC

Does anyone else eat fruit in the shower or thats just me

2025-02-23 02:17:51 UTC