What do you do when you’re stressed?
- Scratch
- Biting nails – grooming
- Grinding teeth
- Pacing
Cortisol over long periods of time wreak havoc on your brain – amygdala (emotional reactivity), hippocampus (learning, ability to control HPA access – loss of inhibition)
What do emotional tests tell us about ourselves? How accurate are they? Do we read into them what we want to see?
Stressed out – car accidents, injuries
How to relieve – yoga,
Psychology of Stress 