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Mailbag Installment 11: When Time Will Not Obey
Why do some people live perpetually late, painfully early, or chronically out of sync with the world around them? In this Mailbag installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener whose lifelong struggle with time has shaped relationships, careers, and mental health.
Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and lived human experience, this episode explores how time is not merely measured but constructed by the brain. Anxiety, depression, chronic stress, and unresolved trauma can distort temporal perception, disrupting the nervous system’s ability to sequence…
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