How Chronic Stress Impacts Your Emotions

Our lives are inundated with stress. Whether it’s work, caregiving, or simply the ethos around us that prioritizes production over rest, we frequently find ourselves overwhelmed and stretched thin. This experience is so ubiquitous that we take it to be a given of life. Living is stress! But research has shown links between being chronically stressed and degraded health, both bodily (heart disease, decreased immune function, etc.) and mentally (depression and anxiety). While it’s easy to accept chronic stress as a given, its negative impact on our health means we should take it seriously.