stressed out

What she views as playful antics look like stressed-out apes bouncing off their steel mesh walls.

One of p53’s roles is to orchestrate cellular senescence, telling stressed-out, unruly cells to stop dividing before they cause problems.

The mother of two, who welcomed her second son in 2019, wouldn’t go too deep into the specifics about what changed her from a stressed-out person to who she is now, noting that she likes “to keep my personal things personal,” but she did slightly tease to the inflection point in the interview.

What’s also playing out, though, are the lonely struggles of a stressed-out second wife, who is Black, to connect with the distant, sometimes resentful white stepdaughters whose mentally ill birth mother is not entirely out of the picture.

Instead of being a stressed-out powder keg, he was calm and focused.