Stress actually has one big advantage for your brain
Who worries and frets and gets stressed about everything and anything: just go ahead. In fact, you should be quite happy if you have some stress.
Stress actually has a huge advantage for your brain. It ensures that your brain functions better. This is all because your brain releases the hormone norepinephrine during moments of genuine PANIC. And that sounds complicated and scary, but it's something nice, believe me.
To put it simply, your brain consists of many different parts. You have a part of the brain that controls your emotions and a part that, for example, governs your language. What happens is that people who experience stressful moments have a brain in which all parts communicate better and faster with each other. In short: you are more alert, sharper, and have a stronger memory during such moments.
How does that happen? From a psychological perspective, it can be logically explained. When you are stressed, action is required. You feel uneasy, with a kind of vague stomach pain feeling that ‘something is not right’. When you are in such a state, your body automatically shifts more into ‘rescue mode’. Your body wants to do everything that needs to be done to ensure that you feel relaxed and okay again. Your brain is set up for that, as it works faster to ensure that you can solve all your problems more quickly. By the way, your head does even more strange things, you know.
Of course, it is true: too much stress is not good either. Then you might as well take a break. holiday. A lot of stress can actually make you unable to function, but a little healthy tension from time to time is nothing to worry about. Bring on those deadlines.
Do you experience a lot of stress every day? That could very well be due to your smartphone.
FACTS
– When you go out to eat again; chefs have the most stressful job of all.
– Work-related stress is the number 1 occupational disease.
– Security guards, bus and taxi drivers, gardeners, cashiers, and daycare leaders experience the least stress at work.
Source: Psychology Today/CBS
Written by: Tessa Heinhuis
