<story><title>What Stress Does to the Brain</title><url>https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-stress-14580/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>want2know</author><text>Some time ago I had a long period of intense stress. It is amazing how much it changes your mind and body.&lt;p&gt;Muscles contract causing all kinds of insuline problems, your hormones become a mess, and all this is raising stress levels more because you don&amp;#x27;t know what is going on in your body.&lt;p&gt;And then an anxiety disorder is right around the corner.&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;p&gt;I think this is the most difficult part to get back to normal:&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;p&gt;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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldcode</author><text>I am in such a period and have been for months. Stupid company demands we ship something no matter what, even though there is insufficient time to do all the work, and they keep adding more on top of it. I work 7 days a week, no vacations, hardly even a weekend day off much less a vacation. I even lost my temper at work and yelled a lot, something I never do. This is no way to do proper work either. At least what little time I have away from this nightmare I do art which helps somewhat.</text></comment>
<story><title>What Stress Does to the Brain</title><url>https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-stress-14580/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>want2know</author><text>Some time ago I had a long period of intense stress. It is amazing how much it changes your mind and body.&lt;p&gt;Muscles contract causing all kinds of insuline problems, your hormones become a mess, and all this is raising stress levels more because you don&amp;#x27;t know what is going on in your body.&lt;p&gt;And then an anxiety disorder is right around the corner.&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;p&gt;I think this is the most difficult part to get back to normal:&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;p&gt;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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>The worst thng about that, at least for me, was that I actually &lt;i&gt;liked&lt;/i&gt; it. I felt alert, productive, full of energy. Things moved gast and I felt on top of them, it was just great.&lt;p&gt;When things changed, arguably forvthe better, I kind of wanted the &lt;i&gt;previous&lt;/i&gt; status back. Took me quite a while to cool down again, yet I still prefer high pressure high speed environments.&lt;p&gt;Funn thing is, my body felt good too. I was healthy as check ups showned. I even managed to trian more than today. Strange period that was indeed...</text></comment>