Depression Days

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When faced with negative thoughts our bodies can enter the ‘fight or flight’ response. Our body prepares itself for either fight or flight, it prepares for a physical response. While doing this other functions are put on hold including digestion, blood cell production, some circulation, healing and immunological responses. We also produce natural chemicals to give our muscles the energy they need for the fight or flight.

The triggering of the fight or flight response can put enormous strain and stress on our bodies as our bodies are ready for action, but we don’t usually fulfil that action, we sit and seethe. Therefore we have produced chemicals that our body then doesn’t use, our other functions are put on hold when we really still need them to be working. Read the rest of this entry »