Cherry Healey

There's like two people in my life who can do that.

Everyone else, please don't.

Because now we have perceived threats rather than an actual threat, the saber-toothed tiger, we've got voice notes and emails and problems at work.

Would you say that a lot of people are in that perpetual state of stress and never experience the recovery stage?

Let's talk about the trouble brewing.

Yes.

So let's say that you wake up, you've got the cortisol, you go to work, there's something, there's a challenge, you get a message from your child that there's something stressful there, or your partner, and then you get home and there's stressful stuff going on there, and then you go to bed and you start to, you know, the list, the, oh God, I haven't called that person and I didn't answer that properly.

Let's say you're in that perpetual state of stress and the cortisol never really goes.

What does that do to your brain?

Our amygdala is like our security guard almost.

And it's got flashlights and it's got screens and it's waiting, getting ready, protecting us.

But it should have a break.

So your body almost gets used to the fact that it never gets a break and it always needs to be on high alert.

Yes.

Do we get almost addicted to that feeling?

Yeah.

I have spoken to people.

Talking to people.

I've spoken to people.

It's because actually, mechanically, there is a problem with your computer system.