How Sleep Disorders can make you more Stress
Therefore, drugs serve as a way to control impact and relieve psychological discomfort. Stress that is high in the emotional spectrum is associated with the loss to control impulses, as well as an inability to hold off on gratification. Stress causes a decrease in gray matter density in the brain area that is connected to cognition and stress control. The prefrontal cortex involved in deliberative cognition shuts down due to stress. The stressed brain loses its ability to reflect and becomes automatic. People who are stressed tend to succumb to desires (e.g. drinking, smoking, and abuse of prescription drugs) to help in managing stress (Grant and…