HH570: Encore Presentation-Stress: Triggers Mood Disorders
One of the things that stress does is it impacts your mood, and you can feel more irritable.
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Transcript
Welcome back to another episode of health hacks
Melissa Deally:as I continue talking about stress and how it affects your
Melissa Deally:health and your life. And one of the things that stress does is
Melissa Deally:it impacts your mood, and you can feel more irritable. You can
Melissa Deally:be much more short tempered and with prolonged stress, it can
Melissa Deally:actually contribute towards the development of anxiety and
Melissa Deally:depression, affecting mental health, and part of that can be
Melissa Deally:triggered by what stress is doing to the health of your gut,
Melissa Deally:which is causing an imbalance in the health of your gut as it
Melissa Deally:breaks down the good bacteria, and it leaves this imbalance,
Melissa Deally:which then impacts your body's ability to produce serotonin,
Melissa Deally:and which is your feel good hormone. And 90% of serotonin is
Melissa Deally:made in the gut. And if the gut isn't healthy and your body
Melissa Deally:can't produce enough serotonin, then that can be one of the
Melissa Deally:triggers of anxiety, feelings of anxiety and depression. So I
Melissa Deally:realized stress isn't the only cause of anxiety, depression and
Melissa Deally:mental health issues, however, it is one of them, and when we
Melissa Deally:lower our stress, we can actually start to mitigate some
Melissa Deally:of those symptoms. So as I've been doing throughout this
Melissa Deally:series, I talk about what stress is doing or causing in terms of
Melissa Deally:your health, and give you a suggestion as to how you can
Melissa Deally:mitigate the stress in your life. And in relation to this,
Melissa Deally:it's staying connected with loved ones. And that doesn't
Melissa Deally:just mean family. That means friends as well. The family you
Melissa Deally:get to choose very often, those are the ones that you need in
Melissa Deally:the time of really high stress. Sometimes it's our very own
Melissa Deally:family members that can trigger high stress, and so you need the
Melissa Deally:other chosen family to support you, and so spending time with
Melissa Deally:them, sharing what you're going through with them, having them,
Melissa Deally:you know, listen and just be there for you and you being able
Melissa Deally:to simply receive support can go a really long way in helping to
Melissa Deally:mitigate the stress that you are under, and helping, therefore,
Melissa Deally:you to be able to stay in a place of a happier, feel good
Melissa Deally:mood, you know, as when we can share our burdens, when we can
Melissa Deally:unburden ourselves, even if we're not sharing them with
Melissa Deally:others, we're simply going through the process of
Melissa Deally:unburdening them ourselves. We can stand taller, stand prouder,
Melissa Deally:and sometimes that's all it takes is just talking with
Melissa Deally:another human being. That connection is so important. So I
Melissa Deally:hope this is helpful to you, if you're in that place and you're
Melissa Deally:needing more support with your mental health, and absolutely
Melissa Deally:reach out to the myriad of services that are available
Melissa Deally:through government bodies, etc. If you're in a place where you
Melissa Deally:would just like to understand where your cortisol levels are
Melissa Deally:at, how it's impacting your energy, impacting your health,
Melissa Deally:then please reach out. I would be happy to have a conversation
Melissa Deally:with you, talk about the various lab testing that we can do and
Melissa Deally:support you in rebalancing your cortisol levels and bringing you
Melissa Deally:to a place of a happier life with less stress.
