Stress Is Not the Enemy — Dysregulation Is

Stress is often treated as the problem to eliminate, but that framing misses something essential. Stress is a signal; what determines outcomes is whether the nervous system can meet it and recover. When regulation is present, stress becomes adaptive. When it’s not, stress accumulates and destabilizes the system.

This essay is part of Energy Regulation Conversations (ERC) — a series exploring how humans and systems function under sustained load in a high-information world.

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This essay is published on Medium as part of the Energy Regulation Conversations (ERC) series.