Hello everyone - hope you are well 🙂
I have been doing some reading on the impact of prolonged stress on a person and have found the following pieces of information:
"Experience changes the brain. The more a particular part of the brain is activated, the stronger and more active and permanent it becomes. When the threat response is continually triggered, both adults and children will develop a hypersensitivity to threat.This will play out with a tendency to misread ambiguous or non-threatening situations as threatening, a greater likelihood to sense anger or hostility (even when there is none), and the likelihood of being in a constant state of high alert, even in the absence of any real stress or threat."
Im interested in more information on how to resolve this - so, being in a relationship with someone that demonstrates this behaviour - when they display this - ie we are out, and he perceives that a person is giving him a dirty look, treating him differently etc, what tactics can I employ - so not to create an argument, but also not to support this behaviour.
Secondly - I was reading about Toxic Stress and the impact of being in a state of high stress for long periods of time - I was hoping for any material you might have on how to combat this - obviously things like exercise, mindfullness etc, but would love any reading anyone might have on this.
TIA 🙂