Help! I’m Stressed and Exhausted - Part 1 #paigepradko

Are you stressed out and exhausted?

In part one of Help, I’m stressed out, I am going to explain what is happening in your body when you feel stressed and then in Part 2, I will cover what research has shown that you can do to manage your stress, lower your cortisol and inflammation in your body and feel better mentally and physically.

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Hi. I’m Paige Pradko. I am a therapist who specializes in treating people with anxiety disorders, health anxiety, OCD and agoraphobia. Welcome to Therapy for a Better Life.

I was reading Dr. Harry Barry’s book on Anxiety and Panic and learned some information that I hadn’t come across before about what happens in our body during panic or high anxiety versus when we are under chronic, daily stress from life.

I think that most of us can relate to that feeling of chronic stress.

Let’s face it, life can be stressful whether you are trying to get your course work done, or you have deadlines at work or relationship issues and family responsibilities or you just have too many things on your plate and you feel exhausted.

Our sympathetic nervous system, our fight, flight or freeze response is activated when we feel panicked, anxious, or even stressed.

Our stress response sets off a hormonal response that is activated by the hypothalamus in the brain and our pituitary gland. When this is activated, hormones are sent into the bloodstream and travel to two glands situated over the kidneys, our adrenal glands. Our adrenal glands then release what we call stress hormones.

Now this is where it gets interesting. Our brain decides, based on how it is interpreting our physical and emotional state, what combination of stress hormones and how much of each of these stress hormones to release into our blood stream.

I am sure you have heard of Adrenaline or Epinephrine. This is the predominate hormone released during a panic attack or high anxiety. It is released in large amounts when we encounter a sudden stressful situation, where our brain interprets that we might need to flee or run away. (The old tiger is behind that bush over there response.)

The symptoms we experience from an adrenaline rush include a pounding heart, difficulty breathing, stomach or digestion discomfort or nausea, shaking, sweating, dry mouth, throat closing in or a lump in our throat, weakness or dizziness, tingling sensations and feelings of fear and dread.

Another stress hormone, noradrenaline or norepinephrine is released when we encounter a stressful situation, and we respond to it with anger and our impulse is to stay and fight.

And the third stress hormone, glycol cortisol is the real culprit for many of us. The stress hormone gluco cortisol is released in large amounts when we encounter a stressful situation that looks like we it might be going to last much longer.

Your brain recognizes that you are dealing with daily, chronic stress and it releases cortisol into your blood stream to provide you with energy to deal with this stress.

However, high levels of cortisol in our blood stream causes symptoms like fatigue, poor concentration, feeling constantly wired and on edge, sleep difficulties, metabolic syndrome and it makes your body more susceptible to infections and illness. High levels of cortisol are also associated with a chronic state of inflammation in the body. I think of the phrase, wired and tired when I think of cortisol.

And next week, I will cover part 2, a really important video for your health where I describe 8 proven ways to lower your cortisol levels caused by chronic stress.

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Until next time...I will see you in session,

Paige

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[jaypee]

Love you page.. Thank you for all of your helps

[Totallyking]

Hello Paige. Appreciate the uploads again. I must say the both this and the previous video has your voice mixed very low compared to your previous ones. It's quite difficult to hear. It's perhaps even lower than the ambient music. Just some information for you! love what you do.

[monty]

Im so happy even tho i was alon at home today i didnt even stressed for 30min today was my first day after so long without any stress tysm for all your help

[kuldeep]

i am at my recovery stage of my ocd but there is one thing which is bothering me im scared of incensed heart rate other thoughts don't bother me anymore thanks to your videos but now when ever i sit relax i start think my heart rate gonna increase and it does when i try to sleep i constant on my heart and it increased so much its been like 3 months now idk what to do, now even without any thought whenever i try to sleep my heart rate increases on its own plss help me with this, this is the last thing shoping me from recovering😔 i was enjoying my day today and suddenly s thought came said what if my heart rate is incensed rn i completely got panicked while i was with my friends and that anxiety stayed for like 3 hours its will be big help even if i some how don't think about it on day it automatically without any thought increase when i try to sleep i been worrying about it that it will never get cured i have always have to stay like this, your videos changed my life so much but idk how i can fix this problem please help me, i am not afraid of dying or heart attack i just fear my heart rate increases cause i think it means im having anxiety and heart rate increasing without any thoughts at night will never be fixed

[shubhamgusain]

mam i can't focus on anything else just focus on sweat I want to exposure but i can't in front of other it all start from health anxiety when it cure now this focus on sweat comes