A closer look
Screen apnea is a widely documented phenomenon where you unknowingly hold your breath or take incredibly shallow breaths while reading emails, significantly spiking your body's stress response; this chronic lack of oxygen signals to your sympathetic nervous system that you are in mortal danger, flooding your bloodstream with adrenaline and keeping you in a perpetual state of low-grade panic, meaning you are essentially triggering a fight-or-flight survival mechanism simply by looking at a spreadsheet or responding to a mundane text message from your landlord, which makes it deeply humiliating to realize that your mysterious, overwhelming anxiety is not always a complex psychological issue, but rather the embarrassing fact that you literally forget how to perform the most basic autonomic respiratory function the second you look at a glowing rectangle
