How Chronic Stress Is Physically Altering Your Brain and Impairing Your Memory #verywellmind #stress

Stress does not just feel like it is affecting your mind. It is physically changing it.

Chronic cortisol exposure reduces the volume of the hippocampus, the brain's primary memory centre. It disrupts the prefrontal cortex, which governs focus, planning, and decision-making. It strengthens the amygdala, the brain's fear and threat detection system, making anxiety the brain's default mode.

The forgetfulness. The brain fog. The inability to concentrate. The feeling that your mental sharpness has been borrowed and not returned. These are not imagination. They are the measurable neurological impact of sustained stress.

The remarkable and hopeful truth is that the hippocampus can regenerate. New neural connections can form. The prefrontal cortex can reclaim its dominance from the amygdala. The brain is plastic. It responds to the conditions you create for it.

Create the right conditions, and your mind comes back.

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