Does anxiety make you lazy


Does Anxiety Make You Tired?

If you often feel anxious, you may recognize this emotional pattern: Something stresses you, a test, a bill, a conflict — and the anxiety begins.

It builds and builds while the physical symptoms — the racing heart, the quickened breath — intensify. And as soon as the stress stops, CRASH. You’re suddenly so tired you could collapse and sleep right on the spot.

Even when anxiety is low-grade or long-term rather than the peak-and-plummet kind, it’s often accompanied by a feeling of exhaustion.

Are anxiety and fatigue interrelated somehow? Here’s what science says about the connection between the two.

Anxiety is a feeling of fear, dread, or apprehension. It can be brought on by a stressful event or by the way you think about an event. Sometimes people feel anxious even when there doesn’t seem to be an external trigger at all.

When you perceive a threat, your hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands release a torrent of hormones to prepare you to fight, flee, or freeze. In response, you might feel any or all of these physical symptoms:

  • shaking
  • quickened heart rate
  • chest pain
  • fast, shallow breathing
  • dry mouth
  • muscle tension
  • dizziness
  • nausea
  • diarrhea

Given the surge of hormones and the intensity of these symptoms, it isn’t hard to imagine why you’d feel tired after a bout of anxiety. You might feel relieved, drained, or even exhausted.

Most of the time, a good night’s sleep is enough to restore your energy levels. Sometimes, however, the tired feeling doesn’t go away as quickly as you’d like.

Fatigue is a persistent feeling of being either mentally or physically tired. It may feel like a lack of energy, a lack of motivation, or a lack of strength.

The National Health Interview Survey put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that women report feeling fatigued more often than men.

It can be brought on by any number of physical conditions, including:

  • cancer
  • arthritis
  • diabetes
  • sleep disorders
  • stroke
  • infections

Fatigue is also associated with a fair number of psychological conditions, including:

  • grief
  • work-related or financial stress
  • depression
  • anxiety
Is it adrenal fatigue?

The term adrenal fatigue is sometimes used to describe a feeling of tiredness that comes from chronic stress and anxiety. Some claim that your adrenal glands (two small glands that produce stress hormones) can become worn out by all the upheaval.

A 2016 review of 58 studies concluded that there’s no current research to support the existence of adrenal fatigue. That doesn’t mean your feeling of exhaustion isn’t real. It simply means the reason may not be that your adrenal glands are depleted.

Anxiety can cause you to lose sleep, either because you have trouble falling asleep when you first lie down, or because worries wake you up when you’d otherwise be sleeping. If that’s the case, you may be feeling extra tired during the day.

The relationship between sleep and anxiety is complex. Anxiety can disrupt your sleep and the lack of sleep can eventually make you more anxious. In a 2019 study, people with insomnia were 9.8 times more likely to have anxiety than the people in the study who didn’t have insomnia.

The night shift and anxiety

Studies show that people who work the night shift are at a high risk for sleep problems because their sleep cycles (circadian rhythms) are disrupted. The disturbed sleep pattern makes shift workers more vulnerable to anxiety disorders.

Chronic exposure to stress changes your brain and your body in mostly negative ways. Researchers have found that when you’re exposed to long-term stress and anxiety, it can:

  • harm your memory
  • affect your judgment
  • lead to mood disorders
  • suppress your immune system
  • cause heart problems
  • disrupt your gastrointestinal system

Long-term anxiety and distress are also associated with chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition that makes you feel tired no matter how much rest you get.

If stress and anxiety have left you tired, there are remedies and activities that may help revive you. Here are a few:

  • Try revamping your sleep practices. A cool, quiet sleeping space, a regular bedtime, limited naps, and relaxation techniques are key — along with curbing your caffeine and powering down your screens an hour before bed.
  • Get regular exercise. Exercise reduces anxiety sensitivity and promotes healthy and restorative sleep.
  • Meditate. Relaxation techniques like meditation and mindfulness can help quiet your mind, regulate your breathing, and lower the amount of stress hormone in your bloodstream.
  • Trim the crash-causing foods from your diet. Whole, unprocessed foods, such as lean proteins, bright fruits and veggies, nuts, seeds, and complex carbs, can give you sustained energy. Foods high in saturated fat and sugar are associated with higher anxiety levels, studies show.
  • Talk to a therapist. A psychologist or counselor may be able to help you identify your anxiety triggers and develop coping skills that lead to less anxiety and greater relaxation.
  • Consider medication. Talk to your healthcare provider about whether your symptoms warrant treatment with anti-anxiety medication.
When to seek medical help

If anxiety is interfering with your sleep, your relationships, or your ability to function throughout the day, it’s probably time to talk with a healthcare provider about it. Anxiety can cause serious health problems if left untreated too long, so it’s a good idea to reach out to a health professional to help you identify any underlying causes and come up with a workable treatment plan.

Anxiety causes a hormonal rush that can leave you feeling drained and tired. The crash is probably temporary, but the feeling of exhaustion lasts. Even after you’ve gotten some rest, you may be experiencing fatigue.

Chronic anxiety and fatigue go hand in hand. Anxiety could be interfering with your ability to sleep at night, which can worsen your daytime sleepiness and could lead to other health problems.

To help your body recover from short-term or long-term anxiety, you may want to try relaxation techniques, regular exercise, healthy eating, and good sleep hygiene practices. A healthcare provider may recommend psychotherapy or medication if you just can’t shake that post-anxiety malaise.

7 Tips for Anxious People Facing the ‘Impossible Task’

Medically reviewed by Timothy J. Legg, PhD, PsyD — By Sarah Fielding — Updated on July 2, 2019

People with anxiety are all too familiar with this phenomenon. So, what can you do about it?

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the idea of doing something that’s seemingly very simple to do? Has a task ever weighed down on you day after day, remaining at the forefront of your mind, but you still can’t bring yourself to complete it?

For my entire life the answers to these questions have been yes, but I couldn’t understand why. This was still true even after I received a panic disorder diagnosis.

Sure, going on meds and learning coping techniques helped me across the board. But this issue continued to arise for no apparent reason. It came on as something stronger than laziness. These seemingly small tasks felt downright impossible at times.

Then, last year, the feeling I could never understand was given a name that described exactly how I had felt each and every time it arose: the impossible task.

Coined by M. Molly Backes on Twitter in 2018, the term describes how it feels when a task seems impossible to do, no matter how easy it should theoretically be. Then, as time passes and the task remains unfinished, the pressure builds while the inability to do it often remains.

“Necessary tasks become overwhelming, and guilt and shame about the incomplete task only make the task feel larger and more difficult,” Amanda Seavey, licensed psychologist and founder of Clarity Psychological Wellness, tells Healthline.

So, why do some people experience the impossible task while others may be baffled by its existence?

“It’s related to a lack of motivation, which is both a symptom and a side effect of some antidepressants,” Aimee Daramus, PsyD, tells Healthline.

“You might also find something similar, though for different reasons, in people with traumatic brain injuries, traumatic stress disorders (including PTSD), and dissociative disorders, which involve a disturbance of memory and identity,” Daramus says. “Mainly, though, it’s how people with depression describe the difficulty that they have doing very simple tasks.”

If you’re like I was for most of my life, experiencing this without understanding why, it’s all too easy to be down on yourself or feel lazy for your lack of motivation. Yet when I’m experiencing the impossible task, it’s not that I don’t want to do something or can’t be bothered to take action.

Instead, simply put, it feels like to do that thing would be the hardest thing in the world. That’s not laziness by any means.

As Daramus explains, “We all have things we don’t want to do. We dislike them. The impossible task is different. You might want to do it. You might value it or even enjoy it when you aren’t depressed. But you simply can’t get up and do it.”

Examples of the impossible task may be having a desperate desire for a clean room but feeling unable to even make your bed, or waiting for mail to arrive only for the walk to the mailbox to seem far too long once it does.

Growing up, my parents would ask me to do things like schedule a doctor’s appointment or do the dishes. I had no way to verbalize how impossible these requests could feel at times.

While those who haven’t experienced the impossible task themselves may have trouble understanding, being able to name what I’m feeling to others has been really remarkable.

In all honesty, though, so much of overcoming the impossible task has been through releasing myself of the guilt I used to feel. I’m now able to look at this as another symptom of my mental illness — instead of as a character flaw — which allows me to work through it in a new, solution-driven way.

As with any symptom of mental illness, there are a variety of techniques that can help manage it. What works for one person may not work as well for another.

Here are seven tips that may help you, according to Daramus:

  1. If you can, split it into smaller tasks. If you have a paper to write, write just a paragraph or two for now, or set a timer for a short period of time. You can do a surprising amount of tidying up in two minutes.
  2. Pair it with something more pleasant. Play music and rock out while you brush your teeth, or return a phone call while snuggled up with a pet.
  3. Reward yourself afterward. Make Netflix the reward for a few minutes of tidying up.
  4. If you used to enjoy the impossible task, sit for a while and try to remember what it felt like to enjoy it. What did your body feel like? What were your thoughts then? How did it feel emotionally? See if you can recover a little of that feeling before you try to do it.
  5. What’s the worst that could happen if you let it go for today? Sometimes making the bed feels great because it looks clean and pretty. Sometimes, though, it helps more to realize that your value as a person isn’t tied to making the bed.
  6. Pay someone to do a task, or trade tasks with someone. If you can‘t go shopping, can you have groceries delivered? Can you switch the chore rotation for the week with a roommate?
  7. Ask for support. Having someone keep you company while you do it, even if it’s on the phone, can make a difference. This has really helped me when it comes to doing things like dishes or laundry. You can also seek out the support of a therapist or close friend.

“Try breaking down the task at hand into small steps. Use encouraging rather than judgmental language with yourself. Give your [mental health condition] a name and identify it when it’s impacting your life,” Seavey says.

You can also try “The Impossible Game” that Steve Hayes, PhD, describes in Psychology Today: Notice your inner resistance, feel the discomfort, and then take action as quickly as possible. For comfort’s sake, it may be helpful to try this on minor things first before trying it against the impossible task.

“Being kind and compassionate towards yourself and your experience is critical,” Seavey says. “Watch out for self-blame and self-criticism, which are only likely to make the task feel more difficult.

“In other words, [remember that] the problem isn’t you, it’s the [mental health condition],” she adds.

Some days may be easier to overcome it than others, but having a name for it and knowing that you’re not alone — well, that makes it feel just a little bit more possible.


Sarah Fielding is a New York City-based writer. Her writing has appeared in Bustle, Insider, Men’s Health, HuffPost, Nylon, and OZY where she covers social justice, mental health, health, travel, relationships, entertainment, fashion and food.

How to get rid of anxiety and fears - Andrey Kurpatov explains

Science and education

The main problem of a person of the 21st century in the world of an overabundance of information is anxiety. Andrey Kurpatov, the country's first public psychotherapist, explained to us how to deal with it.

What is alarm

Look at your own life. How do you react to shouting, urging, tears? What feelings do the coldness of the boss, the grumbling of the parents, the whims of the children, the harshness of the spouse evoke in you? How do you endure betrayal, betrayal, lies? Do you know fear, anxiety, guilt? Do you know what loneliness is? Are you concerned about the state of your health? Are you suspicious, irritable, nervous? Are you suffering from insomnia? How hard do you bear the loss of a friend, a car, a wallet? And how fully satisfied are your dreams and desires? Do you enjoy going to work? Do you also enjoy returning home? Do you ever feel the urge to drop everything and go somewhere else? Do you just feel bad - bad, and that's it? It happens? Do you know the feeling that “everyone got it”? And you. .. This enumeration can be continued indefinitely. Now you understand that I'm not exaggerating? And there is only one conclusion: there are problems, and this must be recognized.

And since psychological problems and stress are the realities of modern life, you need to know how to deal with it. Life makes its demands on us and, it seems, is not going to slow down. Who does not keep up with the revolutions, he falls into her millstones. And in order to meet these turnovers, in order to live, you need remarkable psychological health.

Modern man is in the grip of anxiety. It really is. We are all very anxious, although we do not notice it, because we are used to it. Now it seems almost normal to us. But what is normal about this? Only the life that pleases a person is normal. If it doesn't, then something is wrong. And I think I even know what it is.

We are terribly afraid of our anxiety and our problems. In an absurd anticipation of anxiety, which is known to all without exception, we run away like cowardly hares, laying our long trembling ears in our bosoms. But after all, you yourself should know that if a dog sees a person running away, it instinctively takes off and rushes headlong after him, chasing the unfortunate loud bark. Hence the conclusion: if you show your heels, you are actually forcing you to chase yourself. Only the lazy will not chase after those who run away. Who refuses to enjoy the pleasure of sharing an easily given victory?


Only the life that pleases a person is normal

Franklin Roosevelt once said a wonderful phrase: “The only thing to be afraid of is fear.” But the whole trouble is that we are not afraid of this as we should be. If the fear of fear were recognized by us as a means of dealing with it, if it made us stop and gather strength, this would lead us to victory over panic. But in reality the opposite happens. Frightened by fear, we prepare the soil for it, we carefully fertilize and water it, we do everything so that fear enters us and does its dark work. We are like a condemned man who digs his own grave. Judge for yourself, fearing fear, you recognize its power, its power over yourself. Any fear deprives a person of strength, the ability to withstand adversity, it makes him close his eyes and fall to his knees. Anxiety is paralyzing. Feeling fear, you personally surrender to the mercy of the winner. If you are afraid of your fear, your anxiety - you disarm yourself in the face of it, you deprive yourself of the ability to resist fear.

You yourself give him the key to your possessions, rights and opportunities. And it's right for you! You commit yourself to your own fear. What can you expect after that? You were afraid that anxiety would come, and it comes - it cannot but come, because you have already given up! Sami! Why not take you now, warm ones? It would even be funny if it weren't so sad, because you gave up even before she took possession of you! Not only do you not resist, you resignedly surrender to her. She might not have dared to attack you, but you yourself raised your hands! What to do with you after this?

Yes, then you will resist, you will tell yourself that you are strong, that you can handle everything. But after a fight they don't wave their fists. She will only leave when she wants to. Now it is her right to decide when and what. She will leave after she is satisfied, when she burns you to the ground, when you give up hope, lose faith and the ability to have bright feelings. And she will leave only for a while, since now it is not difficult to take possession of you. Anxiety acts like the ancient barbarians, like the Tartar-Mongol hordes - everything that it can take as prey, and the rest (what it cannot carry away) it destroys.

This is how anxiety behaves after you have surrendered to it. And your fear of fear, your servility to pain and suffering, your weakness and pathological fearfulness are to blame for this. What is there in anxiety that one should be afraid of? Can it in itself deprive you of life, love and joy? No, she cannot do this until you dutifully bring it all to her on a silver platter.


Any fear deprives a person of strength, the ability to withstand adversity, it makes them close their eyes and fall on their knees

Do you know what anxiety is? You should know it's not uncommon. Do you remember her last visit? Usually, when answering this question, they begin to recall school exams or something like that - something at a considerable distance from the present moment. But anxiety is a reality of every single day. But we are so used to it that we no longer notice it at all. Fear has become a part of our lives, and we worry as "naturally" as we eat or breathe. “How will the day go?”, “Will I be late?”, “Will I restrain myself from speaking out or bursting into tears?”, “Will I catch a cold?”, “What surprises await me at work?” These are all manifestations of anxiety. But we do not notice that we are tense and anxious. We need some out of the ordinary event to understand that we are really anxious.

Many people turn to a psychotherapist for help, realizing that their mental well-being is going downhill, that anxiety has gone into a rage. And they are very surprised when the therapist tells them that the anxiety was in them before, and in huge quantities, and now it just began to splash over the edge. Not noticed doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Do not bring yourself to this, recognize it before "the deed is done."

The mechanism of getting rid of anxiety

The pathological link that leads to anxiety and which must first be found and isolated is the fear of anxiety. This procedure should be carried out in advance, as early as possible. At the very first harbingers of the emergence of fear, at the very moment when the first crazy thought about the possibility of anxiety just slipped through the mind, you need to discern the beginning of panic and fix the emerging fear.

The alarm must be caught before it goes into effect, before we have time to be afraid of its occurrence, at the level of "predictable possibility".

This is the stage that lawyers would characterize in this way: there is not only no “corpus delicti” (anxiety), but also an “events of a crime” (there is not even a fear of anxiety). It's like blaming Ivan Ivanovich for killing Pyotr Petrovich, despite the fact that the latter is alive and well and feels great.


If you are afraid of your anxiety, you disarm yourself in the face of it, you deprive yourself of the ability to resist fear. The pathological link - the fear of anxiety - must be separated from the others. If we look at our fear of anxiety from the outside, we will understand all its absurdity. After all, anxiety not only did not come, it did not even declare itself! We just made a negative prediction and got scared (or tried to get scared) accordingly. If we do not distance ourselves from our fear, do not look at it from the outside, then we will certainly immediately begin to look for reasons for it, confirmation, instead of making sure that our anxiety is false (alarm about the possibility of anxiety).

The third mandatory stage of the procedure: to find a full-fledged, normal link that can replace the pathological one. Fear of anxiety is an escape from anxiety, an attempt to hide, to escape, so now you must take the initiative. Invite her for tea. Want her to come and do whatever she wants to do. Let him come, let him do whatever - you agree. And you look ... In the end, he who laughs last laughs. This should not be a flight, but an offensive. After all, it is not in vain that they say that the offensive is the best “defense”.

If you are afraid of something certain, something unpleasant and bad, agree to it, tell yourself: “Let it go!” Moreover, decide for yourself: “Let this happen a hundred, a thousand times!” Say to all your absurd fears: “Go ahead, wind up your hurdy-gurdy, please, as much as you like! I wait! I even want it to happen that way. It will be fun for me to watch!” Do not protest in the face of your own anxiety, do not wave your declaration of human rights in front of it - these weak “chokes” of yours are not needed here. There is no need to claim your rights to power after you yourself have given it up.

You lost your power over your own mental processes at the very moment you began to justify yourself in the face of fear. You capitulated at the moment when you began to look for ways to retreat.

One of my former bosses once said (verbatim) that I am "guilty because I make excuses." Then I considered it stupidity and rudeness, but now I just don’t make excuses - never. Do not lose what is rightfully yours, and this is your dignity and your truth, and then you will not have to choke comically. If something is going to happen, it will happen whether you want it to or not. So why fawn and try unsuccessfully to offer their frail, fear-soaked compromises? Do not run, take the blow, turning to face him (if he, of course, follows at all). Of course, at the same time, you should not forget about all those means that make you strong, as you know, God saves the safe. But in no case do not lose the initiative, do not give up, you must be on top of your hourglass. Let it be as it will be, you are not afraid and look confidently into the future. Confidence gives you strength, which is exactly what you need right now.


Anxiety must be caught before it takes effect, before we have time to be afraid of its occurrence your side. See the flight of your anxiety. Make sure that no matter how you call curses on your head (be it a heart attack or fear of betrayal), they will not become more real than they really are. And you will be funny. By all means! Should be funny. And if it's funny, then laugh! Laugh at yourself, it's the best laugh in the world. Of all the animals, only man laughs, because only he is intelligent. But also only a person cries from mental pain and for the same reason. You can choose the consequence that seems more appropriate. So what, laughter or tears?

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Trick your brain: how to overcome laziness and start working

Recent advances in neuropsychology will help everyone who is used to being lazy, but is looking for new ways of motivation

Early yesterday, no time today, late tomorrow. We are always waiting for the right moment to make a dream come true. Either there is no time and knowledge, then the circumstances are not the same. Famous people had similar problems. Everyone got out as best they could. So, resentment and hatred for the Metallica group moved forward Dave Mustaine, the founder of the American metal band Megadeth, the French writer Victor Hugo cut his hair in an unsightly way to eliminate the desire to go out and finish the novel on time, and the composer Ludwig van Beethoven stimulated activity by pouring ice water. Nowadays, it is not necessary to resort to such radical methods. It is enough to analyze the latest achievements in the field of neuropsychology, adjust your behavior a little and enjoy the result.

As we already know from the previous article, we have two opposing parts. The representative of the ancient brain, let's call him Zhrulkin (he wants everything now), and the young brain - Rationalov (thinks about the future). Due to the fact that Rationalov consumes more energy and is less responsible for survival and procreation, Zhrulkin more often dominates us. The usefulness of Zhrulkin has been proven by millions of years of incredible human vitality. He makes sure that we work less, eat more, and motivate us to have sex. There are exceptions, and a person from childhood can control Zhrulkin, but not everyone is so lucky. Therefore, most need various tricks in order to push it into the background. Consider the most effective ways.

Use the brain's weakness for unfinished business

Once you start, you won't be stopped. The brain gets to work. After all, unfinished business terribly annoys him. This was confirmed in his research by psychologist Kenneth McGraw. The subjects were given a puzzle and, when everything was almost ready, they were asked to finish. There was no rational point in continuing to complete the puzzle, but 90% of the participants remained to complete the work.

A similar effect occurs when reading an uninteresting book or watching a movie. There is no point in continuing, but unconsciously I want to finish reading or watching it. To use the method for your own selfish purposes, it is enough to get off the ground, for example, by working in a group of like-minded people.

The action in progress effect will keep pushing you to work.

Change your mental attitude

A patient of the American psychiatrist Milton Erickson could not keep her weight at 60 kg. As soon as the cherished figure was reached, the girl returned to her usual 80 kg. Erickson warned that the treatment would be painful, and the patient agreed. He forced her to increase her total from 80 to 90 kg. The girl threw tantrums, sobbed, but gradually recovered to 90 kg.

And then, with incredible relief, she began to reduce it and quickly reached 60 kg. The secret of success is to change the mental attitude from "lose weight - gain weight" to "gain - lose weight." The fear of overcoming this horror again allowed me to consolidate my success and not gain more weight. Many more are familiar with the problem of skipping workouts: today I will cancel the lesson, but next time I will go 100%. And the next day, do not go, giving yourself a new promise. The way out will be to change the attitude “I won’t go today - I’ll go tomorrow”, to “I won’t go today - I won’t go tomorrow”. Promise yourself that if you skip class today, you will forget about sports for two weeks. And it is more difficult to do it than to postpone it for tomorrow. So you get rid of the standard excuse and stop feeding yourself breakfast.

Make the first step as easy as possible

Getting started is often difficult because of how long it can take. The brain draws scary pictures of a temporary apocalypse. Trembling with horror, we try to move this terrible moment as far as possible. An effective anti-apocalyptic solution would be to split the task into a number of small, not scary, and sometimes tasty ones. You don't have to do a thesis.

Plan to make a title page, table of contents, or introduction. It is best that the first step takes no more than 20 seconds. Thanks to the butterfly effect, small actions can lead to incredible results.

Build neural connections

The brain doesn't like doing new things. From his point of view, it can be unsafe and very energy-consuming. The new activity differs from the usual one in a smaller number of neural connections in the brain. And to develop new connections, you need to constantly practice.

The practice of visualization does a great job with this task: the brain does not care if you are actually doing the work or just imagining how you are working on a new thing.

In both cases, new neuropaths will be built. The effectiveness of visualization was able to prove the Australian psychologist Alan Richardson, conducting research on basketball players.

Only by visualizing their training sessions with throwing the ball into the basket, the players were able to improve their results. The progress of the players who trained in the gym during the same time was not much better. If you do not have enough willpower to start the daily necessary actions, mentally imagine that you are doing this business, and most importantly, with pleasure. Only the necessary neural connections will be developed in at least 45 days, but with each repetition it will be easier and easier for you to act.

Train your willpower

Success in life depends on willpower. The research of professor of psychobiology Casey from Cornwell University clearly proves this. Casey offered marshmallows to the children, but with the condition that if you wait 15 minutes, you can get another sweet. Some of the children could not resist the temptation and ate marshmallows right away. After 40 years, the professor decided to find out the fate of the children and saw that those who passed the test and did not eat marshmallows turned out to be more efficient, moderate in nutrition and less susceptible to bad habits. But there is good news for the weak-willed: willpower can be trained.

You can follow the path of the physicist Nikola Tesla, who deliberately refused desserts in favor of others, thus developing willpower. Or start meditating. After all, meditation suppresses the ancient impulsive brain, reducing stress, anxiety and fear. Meditation activates the frontal lobes responsible for willpower, improving attention, memory, concentration and creativity. Five to ten minutes of meditation a day is enough to develop self-control.

Fill up with hormone fuel

Hormones regulate metabolism and cellular activity, have a significant impact on performance. A cocktail of melatonin, dopamine, endorphin, serotonin and oxytocin will add strength and motivation to achieve outstanding results.

Melatonin strengthens the immune system, slows down the aging process, and is produced only at night, so good sleep is so important.

Dopamine is a hormone of pleasure, it affects motivation. It is helped to produce pleasant memories, delicious food, and alcohol, but with devastating consequences.

Endorphin is a hormone of joy. Synthesis occurs under the influence of physical activity.

Serotonin is a good mood hormone, produced under the influence of pleasant memories and sunlight.

Oxytocin reduces anxiety, and its synthesis is promoted by sex, massage and communication with friends.

The main thing to remember is that the performance depends on the quality of the fuel.


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