How stress affects your body - Sharon Horesh Bergquist

Our hard-wired stress response is designed to gives us the quick burst of heightened alertness and energy needed to perform our best. But stress isn’t all good. When activated too long or too often, stress can damage virtually every part of our body. Sharon Horesh Bergquist gives us a look at what goes on inside our body when we are chronically stressed.

Lesson by Sharon Horesh Bergquist, animation by Adriatic Animation.

[asabjort]

Well now I'm stressed about my stress

[sawahtb]

Stress is not something you always have control over. That's why it's stressful.

[emmasolberg]

Also worth mentioning that long term stress can affect your menstrual cycle, happened to me when I was involved in way too many projects at once last year

[LiLiKOiOiOi]

Schools: *I’m just gonna pretend I didn’t see that.*

[Sav-lsbr]

nobody gonna mention that the animation is super adorable and funny? okay

[chaos.n.cosmos]

If only the organ that controls every other organ recieved the care and attention that it deserves 🧠❣️

[arianevidding]

Having a problème of anxiety and heard how bad the stress is for your body only make you more stressed. It's like an evil circle.

[sejalb]

Easy tips to feel at least, a little less stressed:
1) Sing a song while you shower.
2) Talk face to face with people. About anything at all. Even listening to others helps.
3) Don’t walk in your house. Skip and jump to your destinations like a protagonist! (If your circumstances allow) it’s all about awakening your inner child.
4) Add the happy songs from your playlist to your daily chores.
5) Stop! Breathe, take a paper and write all of your honest feelings and problems (and possible solutions) and shred it to pieces afterwards.
6) Hug a loved one if circumstances allow.

[lmymege]

Whoever reads this, everything will be ok! You're doing great! Keep going, you are not alone :)

[rory]

A year ago, I stressed myself into permanent IBS and multiple other health issues. Stay safe and put yourself first, trust me! Nothing is more important than your health <3

[ravenwilson]

this is ironic because I've been sick for a month and I'm starting to think its because of stress. I'm stressed out knowing that stress is making me sick lol.

[Eric-qexz]

Teachers: Mental health and sleep are important!


Also teachers: Gives 22 tests, projects, quizzes, papers, and assignments in the same week

Edit (10 Mar ‘23) - If you’re going to reply to this with “StUdEnTs ArEn’T sTrEsSeD, wAiT uNtIl ReAl LiFe”, take your condescension elsewhere 🧡

[AA-wctw]

I do HIIT, yoga, meditation, and spend a lot of time alone. While those help my stress/anxiety, I wish they helped MORE. I'm still high-anxiety and stressed.

[wissamalhourani]

can we just take a moment to consider how beautiful this guys voice is?

[goventurefarbeyondtheshore]

I'm currently suffering from hair fall/loss since I have been highly stressed out from a few weeks. Literally every small thing now trigger me to be stressed. I spent one day being stressed about my hairfall.

[Shesamezzo]

I went through an extremely stressful time during the Fall and I didn’t realize how much the stress affected me and my body until I was out of it. My hair fell out, my skin broke out (and looks saggy and tired), I lost a bunch of weight (and then gained it back x2), my stomach was rough and I started getting severe heart burn, I lost my period for several months and I would wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. It’s been months since then and I am still trying to recover from the stress/burn out. It’s incredibly frustrating because it is a slow process and I miss the person I was before all of this.

[nikolap]

Make a video like this about depression.

[Jet-Pack]

Well that exactly mirrors what I am currently going through. Constant stress also makes me lose interest in the things that made me happy before, rendering them as a waste of time. I feel sick and sad... but it is going to be over soon. That gives me the power to carry through.

[Standuprei]

I've been on a really long personal journey with my anxiety and stress the past 2 and a half years I've been sober. Used to mask it with alchohal and drugs but finally back to somewhat normal after digging myself into a 9 year pit. What I can say about my journey and what has helped is
a constant curiosity of life and others, Reading books and learning more about mental health, trauma, etc to more understand my own, meditation, and having a daily checklist to avoid just laying in bed hiding all day. So for anyone going through something similar or on the same lines.. it is going to be okay. The best thing you can do is keep pushing forward. I just kept doing things that proved to myself I really do love myself and want to live a happy, healthy life. Never give up. Always keep moving. You got this.

[salmanisrar]

Meditation, yoga, journaling have been extremely helpful in my journey in dealing with stress! This was a beautiful video. Thank you, TED Ed.