The Stress Response: How the Brain Works

Stress is our natural response to a situation or event that we perceive as challenging, even threatening. Stress is good insofar as it motivates us to take positive action or prompts us to adapt to a threat. But it can become harmful when we lack the confidence or ability to adapt in a healthy way.

When we lack either the confidence or tools to adapt to stress, we experience symptoms like anxiety, impatience, worry, dread, fear, irritability, anger, depression, and so on.  We become susceptible...