It’s common for many people to feel stress, anxiety, or burnout on a regular basis—from the pressures of work and personal finances to politics and world news. Stress isn’t new: it’s your body’s reaction to a challenge, but that reaction is only supposed to activate for a short period of time, until the problem is addressed.
A more constant physical pressure from ongoing stress hormones can have a negative effect on the body. “Stress is one of the only factors that’s listed as a risk factor for every major medical condition,” Yamalis Diaz, PhD, clinical assistant professor in the at °µÍřTV Langone, tells NBC Left Field.
“When people feel that constant pressure to always be on, always working, essentially they never get the time to decompress or cope. I want more people to recognize stress as an early indicator of problems to come if you don’t deal with it at the lower level,” says Dr. Diaz.
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