Quotes About Stress

Finding balance can be an exhausting challenge for anyone with trauma-altered stress-response systems. The search to avoid the pain of distress can lead to extreme, ultimately destructive, methods of regulation.

para la evaluación clínica resulta fundamental saber que, cuanta más ansiedad siente una persona, más difícil le resulta recordar y describir sus sentimientos, pensamientos e historia con exactitud.

understanding how the brain reacts to stress or early trauma helps clarify how what has happened to us in the past shapes who we are, how we behave, and why we do the things we do. Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives.

For most people, the unknown is one of the major causes of feeling anxious or overwhelmed.

caminar de manera coordinada responde a un mesencéfalo y un tronco encefálico bien regulados, regiones cruciales para la coordinación de la respuesta al estrés.

The stronger stress response system in the present is the one that has had moderate, patterned stress in the past.

Children and adults with developmental trauma frequently experience chronic abdominal pain, headaches, chest pain, fainting, and seizure-like episodes—all very common symptoms related to a sensitized stress response.

Dr. Perry: It has the same effect. And other children will discover that pulling out their hair or their eyebrows gives a little bit of an opiate burst.

Activating your stress-response systems, even at a moderate level, for long periods of time is physically and emotionally exhausting.

A child exposed to unpredictable or extreme stress will become what we call dysregulated.

feel like they are jumping out of their skin

So when a single mom is living on a limited income, trying to manage four children, trying to be mother and father, and she feels overwhelmed or feels like it's impossible to do it all—it's because it is impossible.

Starting in the womb, the developing brain begins to store parts of our life experience. Fetal brain development can be influenced by a host of factors including mother's stress; drug, alcohol, and nicotine intake; diet; and patterns of activity.

anything new will activate our stress-response systems. Our default response to novelty is "Uh-oh. What is this?" And until the new thing is proven safe and positive, it will be categorized as a potential threat.

Our stress response has evolved to be relationally sensitive, such that when we're with people who have attributes similar to our childhood "clan," we feel safe. But when we encounter people with attributes that are different from "our people," the brain's default is to activate the stress response.

There was something inhuman about being dutiful workaholics, something that wrecked marriages, shattered families, and made a man and woman shrivel up inside. It was going to kill them both someday. Without his wife and his child, hinges had popped loose in Van's soul. He could feel that something quiet but vital to his humanity was slowly going down the shredder.

I have some anger issues.

Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up. Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...

Too much aggression and work will move what you desire further away.

The most ignorant woman can become a great actress, under the stress of emotion.

The genes for depression cause peoples' brains to overreact to stress.

people who have the genes for unipolar major depression cannot turn off their stress response. When they experience stress from jobs, deadlines, family trouble, medical illness, or extreme excitement, large quantities of steroid stress hormones and norepinephrine come pouring into their brains and cannot be stopped. Every day, this stress overload is fatiguing and killing cells in their brains, bringing on unipolar major depression.

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and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me