Stress is a natural and normal response to demanding situations. When you're stressed, your body releases hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, which trigger the "fight-or-flight" response. This response is designed to help you react quickly to danger, increasing your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure. While this can be helpful in short-term, acute situations, chronic or long-lasting stress can have significant impacts on your physical and mental health. If we are stressed for long periods of time then we will start to feel burnt out.

The impact of chronic stress on your mental and emotional well-being is also profound:

• Mental Health Conditions: Chronic stress is a major risk factor for developing mental health disorders such as anxiety,
  depression, and substance use disorders. It can also worsen the symptoms of pre-existing conditions.

• Cognitive Function: Stress can affect your ability to concentrate, make decisions, and remember things. It can even cause
  structural changes in the brain over time, potentially leading to a decrease in brain mass in certain areas.

• Emotional and Behavioural Changes: Stress can make you feel overwhelmed, irritable, and angry. It may also lead to
  behavioural changes like social withdrawal, reliance on unhealthy coping mechanisms like alcohol or drugs, and a lack of
  motivation.

At Project Self Psychology we provide therapy to help you feel to reduce stress and build your skills to cope more effectively with the stressors of everyday life and feel calmer.

Overwhelmed? Feeling burnout?

We get it. Therapy to help you restore balance.