In the heat of anger, we often don’t use our best judgment.
We may say and do things we later regret, or lose track of what we’re arguing about.
Why is that?
Well, it has to do with cortisol. You see, anger can spark an overload of cortisol in the brain.
So where does the cortisol come from in the first place? That’s something we got into here.
And to help you visualize what’s happening when there’s too much cortisol in the brain, we put this together for you (and please feel free to make a copy to share).
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Coming soon: How Anger Affects Your Brain and Body, Part 3 – How Stress Hormones Change Your Body
This is very interesting, but I don’t understand why the creator seems to be conflating the terms ‘anger’ & ‘stress’ – of course anger is a form of stress, but the terms are not synonymous.
Was just standing in my kitchen talking to my son about cortisol and it’s effects. Pulled up my Instagram page and this is the first advert to come up. I’m not normally paranoid about my phone listening to what I’m saying but maybe I should be!
Turn off microphone permission for all social media and anything goggle-related. It helps.