Adaptation

Ugh... I am SO tired. I keep waking up at 6:30am because I still haven't gotten used to Daylight Savings Time.

It's made me think about how we adapt to things in our lives. Adaptation is one of the key aspects of what it means to be human, or any animal in fact.

Many people know that one of my interests is in neuroscience and we talk a lot about adaptation in our classes. We even have talked about adaptation in a psychology class.

Adaptation is important because it helps us survive. When I was going through abuse and neglect, I had to adapt to my surroundings in order to survive. That's one of the reasons my brain has caused me to have post traumatic stress disorder. My stress level was so high in that situation that my stress level is still high, years later.

I've had to kind of learn to "unadapt." I've had to learn that teach my brain to realize that it is not in those high stress situations anymore. It's not easy and I take it day by day, but I am very thankful that I was able to adapt in order to survive.