Do you know that you are stressed?

It is common for those who come for a chat not to know that stress is as influential as it is on the physical body, including myself before I started studying it. Most people probably know that a lot of stress is not useful, but how much is ok and what happens in the body is all the more difficult to understand if you do not get into it. 

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Being stressed for a little while like 20 minutes is no danger and it can be empty. be useful for it strengthens the immune system, but being stressed for long periods or repeated several times a day is not good the immune system "shuts down" as it is not needed when is "hunted", we can recognize ourselves in this when you easily get sick after a slightly longer stress period. 

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The expression "make no major decisions when you are stressed" may also be recognizable, this as the cognitive thinking becomes secondary as we become focused on "surviving" when we are in "fight / flight mode" .

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When we get stressed, the signals in the brain take a different path than when you are calm as shown in the picture below, the signals go directly to the amygdala which is the brain instead of via the frontal cortex and sends out stress hormones in the body.

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Just getting coaching / therapy involved in dealing with thoughts and feelings can go a long way, but if the body is not treated well, it does not help all the way. Good ways to start with yourself to reduce stress levels are with ...

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Diet

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Sleep

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Yoga

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Exercise

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Meditation

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Nature

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Pain reduction

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If you want to know more, feel free to study the videos and / or read the literature next to it.

 

(NOTE! If you think you are depressed and / or have suicidal thoughts contact the psychiatric emergency or  www.suicidezero.se)