How Stress Works?

During stress, your brain sends messages to your body to release certain hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. These hormones cause your heart rate and blood pressure to rise, your muscles might tense up too.  Your immune system becomes weak, which makes you ultra vulnerable to bacteria infections and viruses. Evidence also reveals that stress contirbutes to heart disease. Stress hormones will actually cause your body to increase blood clotting; therefore, stress can bring on a heart attack (BBC News).

There is reason to believe that stress trigger episoides of many disorders, inculding panic disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

 Have you ever taken a mental health day off from work simply to remove stress? If so, you´re not alone. As many as a quarter of people in the workplace have taken such days from work (Washington Post). More and more people are experiencing high levels of stress in their lives. According to sources, work is the biggest stress factor for adults (AIS). Work provides a significant source of stress for over 60% of people in the U.S. (Washington Post).