Completing the Stress Cycle
For some odd reason, when school ended and winter break began, the feeling of stress that had plagued these past two weeks still remained. Even though I got through everything, something felt off and it was as if I wasn’t able to move forward and start to enjoy the time-off. Luckily, last week in school, one of my teachers introduced to us a concept called the stress cycle, which is when your brain identifies something as dangerous, and therefore plunges your body into fight, flight, or freeze mode. Like all other cycles, the stress cycle has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Feeling stressed from everyday life is completely normal in a world where countless stressors are thrown at us from so many different directions. However, while being stressed sucks , it’s important to know that it’s also what helped humans survive and still be here, so I guess we should give it some credit. Up until now, I never considered how even after the stressor is gone, the “stress” can still be there...