Something they’ll tell you about hypothermia is that you keep getting colder till you reach the point where it starts to feel like it’s getting warmer because your body tries to keep you warm with one last trick it’s got - and that’s when it’s dangerous, that’s when you know it’s gone too far and in steady decline
Something similar happens with alcohol, when you keep drinking and feeling good and getting tipsy and drunk, when you keep drinking you reach a point where it becomes hard to tell how drunk you are getting - it’s dangerous because you black out and don’t know how much you’ve consumed and it easily tips over into poisoning before you know it
Something similar happens with hunger, when you go too long without food you feel the hunger pangs and the cravings for food and it fully absorbs your thoughts but it reaches a point where you stop feeling hungry and you still haven’t had food but your body has realised perhaps that food isn’t forthcoming and made its peace so the hunger is gone - to the extent that you may not even be able to eat much or feel nauseous when you do, even though you still need that food
Something similar happens with love when you don’t readily receive it, and you know in the depths of your being how much you need it but none is forthcoming and you’ve made your peace with it so your body revolts from the nausea of it when affection does touch you
Something similar happens where a child or a pet or a loved one stays in the cold of disregard too long, maybe watching, maybe crying for attention, maybe hoping for affection and you turn away and eventually they know nothing is forthcoming and they quiet down and turn away - and that’s when it’s dangerous because neglect takes only so long to become damage; quietly, steadily, insidiously.
