Why You’re So Tempted To Do Something Stupid During Quarantine

Micro-risks like giving yourself bangs could be soothing your brain

Kayt Sukel
Forge
Published in
7 min readMay 28, 2020

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Photo: Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images

Since stay-at-home orders have been put into effect, some of my usually-risk-averse friends and online acquaintances have been doing the weirdest things.

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Kayt Sukel
Forge
Writer for

Author THE ART OF RISK (NatGeo, 2016) and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SEX (S&S, 2013). Explorer. Mom. Nerd. What you see is what you get.