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    How do stress and anxiety affect health?

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  • Marianne Gabriel

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    Marianne has 15 years private practice experience providing psychological services to people for depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma, life changes, parenting, post natal depression, physical … View Profile

    We have a normal stress response when we're in a fear-provoking situation, and that puts our mind and body into survival mode. Our body releases a stress hormone when we're under any perceived threat, an imagined threat, or even a real threat. The body releases cortisol, and that's an excellent hormone, but if those cortisol levels are consistently too high, you only need another small incident to occur for the body to go into overload.
    The other thing that chronic cortisol also can have an effect on is blood pressure. It can also lower the immune function. That can trigger a person's tendency to be more open to catching infections, viruses that are going around, and just lead to general poor health.

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    Anxiety is the biggest issue men are facing in this world, because of this sedentary and busy lifestyle. Its dilemmas are many for our future life and abandon us to major problems of life. I shuffled with one article which explains the problems this deadly disease have to our future life.
    http://www.medstorerx.com/mental-health/how-anxiety-can-have-adverse-effects-to-the-body.aspx

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