Graduate school is hard enough. God forbid something happens in your personal life to push you off the cliff into anxiety and depression. Here are my 5 go-to strategies for climbing out of the pit of despair and not falling back in.
“…The stress response is effective for the body’s flight-or-fight mechanism when it helps a person run fast (top half of infographic), pay attention and take care of immediate business. But when a body is always in fight-or-flight mode, stress hormones continually tell the heart to work harder, the immune system to be on the lookout, and the digestive system to wait or replenish quickly so as to be ready for the next battle. The neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine also can contribute to barbecuing the body. Continued stress responses can have dire effects on the cardiovascular, immune and digestive systems (among others) and may cause permanent damage (bottom of infographic)…”
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Jill Bouchard 