Scientists have found that lasting stress also depresses endocannabinoids -- neurotransmitters similar to the active ingredients in cannabis -- and that, in turn, can depress us.

The power to imagine ourselves into the future and to bind those fantasies with memories of our past is what allows us to construct the story of our lives. It’s where we get a sense of self that endures beyond the fleeting moment of the now. 

On the other hand, because so much of our present is overshadowed at both sides by the phantom anxieties of a thousand possible futures and the traumas of a past we cannot change, we human beings are burdened with incredible, dysfunctional levels of stress. 

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