Does your job give you unusually high levels of fatigue, irritability, and grouchiness? Do you frequently lash out at your coworkers, loved ones, and friends? Do you find it difficult to focus on your work? Do you perspire and experience heart palpitations, which eventually lead to high blood pressure? Do you frequently stress eat, have trouble falling asleep at night, or feel the need to have one more drink or puff on a cigarette?

I have observed an upsurge in the number of young people experiencing heart attacks in recent years. After carefully examining each case, I found that, aside from chronic stress, none of them had any known conventional risk factors for heart attacks, such as hypertension, smoking, or alcohol use. They are typically young individuals engaged primarily in the corporate sector who report high levels of workplace stress.

Since heart attacks, high blood pressure, strokes, and other cardiovascular problems are all linked to increased psychological stress, it is time to discover an effective way to manage it.

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨?

Stress that lasts only a short while can give you the drive to complete a task or fulfill a deadline. You might do better when giving a speech in front of an audience. It can aid the decision-making process in an instant. However, excessive stress can be harmful to both your heart’s health and your general well-being. The effects of long-term (chronic) stress, which might include anger, sadness, worry, rumination, and anguish, can be brought on by persistent anxieties about work and the conditions that are connected to it.

Chronic stress can leave you feeling out of control of your emotions or behaviours and cause symptoms like stiff muscles, low energy, insomnia, headaches, and gastrointestinal symptoms. Your moods may change more frequently.

Most often, sufferers of chronic stress aren’t aware of their condition until it is too late. For this reason, I strongly advise you to pay closer attention to the signs I listed earlier and to get quick assistance with stress management.

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩?

The amygdala, often known as the fear region of your brain, is activated when you experience stress or anxiety, telling your body to shift into “fight or flight” mode and flooding it with cortisol (the stress hormone) so that it can “respond” to the stress. Over time, increased levels of stress hormones can lead to endothelial dysfunction, inflammation of the coronary arteries, and elevated blood pressure. This promotes the formation of cholesterol deposits (plaques) in the coronary arteries, leading to angina, heart attacks, and strokes.