How do stress and anxiety affect our health?

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Stress & Anxiety: The silent terminator

What is stress/anxiety?

According to Oxford dictionaries, stress or anxiety means:

‘A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances’

How does stress affect our mental health?

Mental health is one of the most important things to keep safe because it controls so much of our behaviour & attitude, which have such significant influence to our daily productivity. According to recent research from the University of California, Berkeley about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

“People who experience chronic stress have more white matter in some areas of the brain. The UC Berkeley study wanted to find out the underlying reason for this alteration in the brain composition. [...] This might mean that people with stress disorders, such as PTSD, have alterations in their brain connectivity.”

What are the effects of anxiety to our physical body?

From a physical aspect, anxiety damages parts of our body. Being stressed could lead to illness like diabetes, obesity, heart diseases, and cancer.

Stress & anxiety without diagnosis and treatment are dangerous as it could lead to very serious outcomes if not identified and dealt with. Consultation can help patients recover from anxiety. By coming out and talking helps rebuild the damage and protects the body and mind from unhealthy and toxic illnesses.