26/08/2021
Suffering from chronic stress? 🔊📢😥
Everyone seems stressed these days. From the current pandemic to economic pressures, racial unrest, political tensions and natural disasters, the start of the new decade has seemed to throw one stressor after another. 🌋
At some point, that stress may become something you can’t simply shake off: Experiencing stress over an extended period may indicate that stress is chronic.📈
Chronic stress can take a toll on your mind and body. Fortunately, there are things you can do to back on the path to mental and physical wellbeing.❤💜🧡💙💛
What is Stress?
Stress might seem like a bad thing, but that’s not always the case. The stress response (fight or flight) is natural: It helps our bodies gear up for action—like avoiding an oncoming bus or meeting a tight deadline. When we feel threatened, our body releases hormones like adrenaline and cortisol that can boost mental clarity, tighten muscles, and accelerate the heart rate.
Stress that helps you stay more alert is known as acute stress—this type of stress comes and goes—and we all have it from time to time. It doesn’t last long-term.
But for some people, the stress goes on for a long time. The body still reacts to it in the same way—as if bracing for potential danger—but that danger never comes. It keeps you in a constant state of vigilance, even when it doesn’t have to do so.
This is known as chronic stress, and it’s not healthy. -https://www.pfizer.com/news/hot-topics/chronic_stress_and_how_to_manage_it