The 4 Horsemen of Stress: Why Managing Stress Is so Difficult
Briefly

Chronic stress is difficult to manage and often leaves individuals frustrated, as overcoming it is influenced by deep-seated structural challenges. The chronic stress cycle harms the hippocampus, impairing learning and memory while negatively affecting the body and mind. Evolutionary and developmental mismatches contribute to unrelenting stress responses in modern life. A shift towards a new stress response paradigm is essential to break the cycle of chronic stress and restore balance in one’s environment.
Chronic stress affects more than mood-it has a compounding effect on the body and mind. It impairs the hippocampus, which helps regulate the body's stress response.
Chronic stress can be considered the master hallmark of aging, as it negatively impacts all 12 of the acknowledged hallmarks of aging.
Our stress response evolved to survive immediate threats, but modern daily stressors don't allow for resolutions through fight or flight, resulting in heightened, unrelenting stress.
To break the negative patterns of stress, a new stress response paradigm is required to adapt and regain balance in our environment.
Read at Psychology Today
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