Chronic stress puts your brain in lockdown, impairing memory and processing. When the limbic system becomes overactive, you develop hypersensitivity and distorted perception. This neurobiological dysregulation underlies anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
So, once the body goes into fight or flight, we all are in the same place. Our brain-body goes into lockdown. You know, our processing goes off, our memory goes off. If you stay in that state for a long enough period of time where you either have traumatic or chronic stress, the part of your brain that we call your limbic system, which is where all your senses coordinate together. So that your brain can give a meaning to what you're experiencing. That can be overactive. There can be a hyper state. So now there's a hypersensitivity and your perceptions can be off, your memory can be off. And so I think regardless of how you got to your mental health being thrown off, whether it's anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, we're seeing a lot of everything. As a result of chronic or traumatic stress.
