What Stress Does to the Brain
Some time ago I had a long period of intense stress. It is amazing how much it changes your mind and body.<p>Muscles contract causing all kinds of insuline problems, your hormones become a mess, and all this is raising stress levels more because you don't know what is going on in your body.<p>And then an anxiety disorder is right around the corner.<p>And when everything is ok again your brain produces stress hormones when you hear a sound that would trigger you earlier or just a smell or a color.<p>I think this is the most difficult part to get back to normal:<p>The brain brings you in stress mode for no obvious reason. Then you have to reason about it so the stress goes away and you will slowly reset your brain.<p>But I doubt the paths in the brain will ever go away. It will be like a overgrown path in the end but it is still there.