It鈥檚 common for many people to feel stress, anxiety, or burnout on a regular basis鈥攆rom the pressures of work and personal finances to politics and world news. Stress isn鈥檛 new: it鈥檚 your body鈥檚 reaction to a challenge, but that reaction is only supposed to activate for a short period of time, until the problem is addressed.
A more constant physical pressure from ongoing stress hormones can have a negative effect on the body. 鈥淪tress is one of the only factors that鈥檚 listed as a risk factor for every major medical condition,鈥 Yamalis Diaz, PhD, clinical assistant professor in the at 好色tv Langone, tells NBC Left Field.
鈥淲hen people feel that constant pressure to always be on, always working, essentially they never get the time to decompress or cope. I want more people to recognize stress as an early indicator of problems to come if you don鈥檛 deal with it at the lower level,鈥 says Dr. Diaz.
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