I do not know about you, but I am tired of being the news.

This past Tuesday, I gave an interview to an Indian news network about the mental health toll of living in Israel right now: the war, the uncertainty, the constant low hum of threat that rewires a population’s nervous system over time. I spoke about regulation, about what it does to a person to live for years inside a state of anticipatory anxiety.

At the end of the segment, the anchor said: now we move to Kashmir and Pakistan.

And something in me smiled. Quietly, almost shamefully. Oh good, I thought. We are not the only ones.

I sat with that smile for a long time afterward, because it surprised me. It........

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