The Importance of Surge Capacity in a Crisis

Apathy is not a common emotion or rather non emotion for me to have, but it's been hanging around in my psyche. Recently I stumbled on an article by a science journalist named Tara Hyel entitled, Your Surge Capacity is depleted and it's why you feel awful. In the piece she talks about how we all have a certain amount of surge capacity, which allows us to respond well in short term, high stress situations like natural disasters. But our surge capacity isn't infinite, not yours and not mine. And when it came as she knew it would, it was more severe and lasted much longer than she expected.