
31/07/2025
WHY DO YOU AUTOMATICALLY WANT TO GO TO TOILET WHEN YOU HAVE FEAR?
đ âThe Kingdom of Youâ: A Story About Food, Fear, and... Toilets
đ° Scene 1: The Feast
You just finished preparing your "royal meal": spaghetti, eggs, and fried bananas. You sit on your throne (your chair), fork in hand. Your royal chef (thatâs your "stomach") is like:
"Yes, finally! Letâs get to work. Fire up the digestive ovens, we have fuel incoming!"
Meanwhile, in the "Royal Palace of the Brain", the chief advisor (your "parasympathetic nervous system") stands and declares:
"Let all soldiers stand down! Let peace rule the land. The King is eating. Activate **Rest and Digest** mode!"
Your heartbeat slows, your pupils relax, and blood starts flowing away from your muscles to your stomach.
Youâre at peace.
But suddenlyâŚ
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đ Scene 2: The Enemy Strikes
Out of nowhere â boom!
You look up and see "10 snakes speeding toward your kingdom".
Instantly, your other advisor â the wild one (your "sympathetic nervous system") â kicks down the door screaming:
"ALERT! ALL UNITS ON DECK! BATTLE MODE ENGAGED!"
Now the castle is in chaos. What happens?
* Blood RUSHES back from your belly to your muscles
* Your heart starts POUNDING
* Pupils dilate
* Breathing speeds up
* And your stomach? It gets a message:
âShut down operations. Weâll digest later. Right now, we RUN.â
Oh â and letâs not forget this partâŚ
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đ˝ Scene 3: The Emergency Flush
Before battle, the kingdom must "lighten the load".
So your body checks your bowels and says:
"Eject! Eject! We donât need this baggage. Open the gates!!"
And thatâs how you go from "bon appĂŠtit" to "bathroom rush" in five seconds flat đ
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𤯠Moral of the Story:
Your body has two big modes:
1. "Rest and Digest" â calm, digestion, sleep, recovery
2. Fight or Flight" â stress, danger, action, escape
But hereâs the plot twist:
Your body "canât do both at the same time". Itâs either chill time or war time.
And sometimes?
Even "just the thought" of something intense â like an exam or a surprise guest â is enough to make the "wild advisor hit the battle alarm and send you running... to the toilet.
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So the next time you wonder why your spaghetti turned into a sprint â just remember:
"Your body is not confused⌠itâs just very dramatic."
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