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.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.And then an anxiety disorder is right around the corner.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.I think this is the most difficult part to get back to normal: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.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.