Everyone knows the saying: "After the rain, the good weather." This adage does not seem to apply to our "psychic weather", however . It is often quite the opposite. It is not uncommon to find that after a difficult life event, some people collapse even though they have held out when the storm was raging and the hardest thing finally seems to have passed.
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According to Stéphanie Bertholon, psychologist in Lyon and co-founder of the stress and anxiety treatment center, this phenomenon could be explained by the three main stages of the stress mechanism: alert, resistance and exhaustion. "Stress is a completely adapted reaction of the organism to real threats or situations that we interpret as such" , begins by recalling the psychologist. “First there is the alert phase which will put the person on alert. It is the sympathetic nervous system which will allow the whole body to mobilize all the energy to face this
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