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Understanding Stress Response

The stress response is a short-term mobilisation that is designed to end. Chronic stress is what happens when it does not switch off, and accumulated load is the cost of running it continuously.

Psych-ed10 minMAXtext or voice

How it works

The acute-versus-chronic distinction is the one that matters. Short bursts are unremarkable and recoverable; the difficulty comes from a response that never fully stands down. This tool explains what stays switched on, why recovery periods matter more than stress reduction alone, and what accumulated load looks like day to day.

Grounded in

allostatic load research and polyvagal accounts of the stress response.

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