Americans are living in fear — not of anything real, but of what the mind imagines.

When the body feels under threat with no escape, the mind invents a story to match. That story becomes our reality. The signal behind it? Inflammation — IL-6, flooding the body and tricking the brain into believing we’re in danger.

We freeze. Like a gazelle in the jaws of a lion. But unlike the gazelle, we don’t go still and die; we live inside the nightmare. We feed it — through screens, through news, through noise.

Your only way out of this imagined hell is discernment: learning to see what’s true in the storm of your own mind. You can do it. You have to. That’s what separates us from the gazelle.