That feeling of malaise you might be noticing is a sign of something very particular happening in your brain.
"Essentially our brains have lived through two years of extreme threat and anxiety", says Dr Susan Rossell, a professor of cognitive neuropsychology at Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology.
There is a tonic for the hormonal rollercoaster we've endured since. It comes in the form of human interactions that supply us with those feelings of love, trust, pleasure, motivation and desire. "Humans are a social species and we know that it helps us thrive," says Professor Rossell. "Our brains need the chemicals that are produced — the oxytocin and the dopamine — and we've been seriously neglected of that."
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