
This may be precisely why men can so easily key into their fall feelings. I have a theory that nostalgia is one of the few socially acceptable male emotions. There isn’t much research on my hunch, but I found a paper from the 1990s by Molly Diane Brown at …
Trauma causes changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, a stress-responsive system that enables us to adapt to environmental challenges and stressors, explains Eisenlohr-Moul. “The ultimate byproduct of the HPA axis is cortisol, a hormone that mobilizes energy resources in order to respond to stressful events and to meet the energy demands of life.”