The Biology of Chronic Stress

Your brain is physically rewiring itself to be terrified right now. Stress isn't just

a mood, it's a biological glitch. When you panic over an email,

your amygdala screams danger and dumps cortisol like you're fighting a tiger. In short bursts,

this actually makes you smarter and faster. But when stress becomes chronic,

that same chemical melts the connections in your prefrontal cortex, the part of your

brain responsible for logic. You literally lose the physical ability to calm down,

leaving you with a survival instinct that destroys your body to save you from threats that

aren't even real.