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What is Stress?
Stress is your body’s way of responding to any demand or threat. When you sense danger—whether it’s real or imagined—the body’s defences kick into high gear in a rapid, automatic process known as the “fight-or-flight” reaction or the “stress response.”
I know it doesn’t feel like it, but the stress response is the body’s way of protecting you. Working correctly helps you stay focused, energetic, and alert.
In addition, Stress gives you extra strength to defend yourself in emergencies. Healthy Stress can save your life, for example, urging you to slam on the brakes to avoid a car accident.
Recognizing Stress
We de-frag our computers because they get clogged up with too much information so they will perform efficiently. The same happens to our minds, and we get clogged up, also. You are all over the place. When we struggle to make sense of a difficult situation, it doesn’t leave much headspace to deal with everything that needs our attention. The Stress of a shock makes us illogical and emotional.
When you are stressed, You might feel like your brain has turned to mush or have a ‘brain fog ‘. Life may feel unreal, as if you are disconnected and floating slightly outside your body, watching yourself continue doing things. It’s a horrible feeling.
You could suffer a bit of a temporary personality change due to severe Stress. For example, you might want to be alone and hide at home if you are usually social. Or if you often take time out by yourself, you might find yourself going out every night, drinking when you usually don’t. Usually financially savvy, you may do unusual things like compulsive shopping.
When Stress Causes Life to Feel Pointless.
When something happens that leaves you deeply upset, life can temporarily lose its meaning, and it makes you feel; what’s the point? You can have negative thoughts like, ‘Why keep trying when everything will go wrong?” You need to be aware of this effect as you can easily slip into depression. You may relate to some or all these symptoms -or none. In whichever way it affects you, severe Stress causes suffering.
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