Diarrhea (Diarrhoea)

Everything moves too fast. What you take in rushes straight through you, without your body ever getting the chance to process it. The intestine — the organ that normally sorts, absorbs, and distributes in quiet order — has switched into urgent mode. It wants to get rid of things. Quickly. Now. Immediately.

Medically, diarrhea is an acceleration of intestinal peristalsis, often accompanied by increased secretion of fluid into the gut. The body flushes out what it no longer wants to keep. The question BodySignal asks reaches deeper: What in your life is so overwhelming, so threatening, or so indigestible that your system decides to push everything through without processing it?

Diarrhea is not a failure of digestion — it is a flight reflex, turned inward.