Is stress really necessary?

As far as I know all cortisol does is to prepare you in emergencies in an instant to act really fast rigth? But they say when something traumatic happens there's so much information that you can't handle and you have to suppress some of them. But is it really that much information you can't handle or so much pain cortisol gives to you (I always feel physical pain in my head, not like headache but like hot sand burning when I get less depressed and become more aware of myself, I'm pretty sure most of you don't, and you know it kills your brain cells which reminds me of some kind of a poison too, right?:? ) that you can't handle the pain and want to dissociate from your feelings of pain? And isn't it that pain you dissociated from yourself that causes the suffering after trauma?

This idea just popped up my mind and I didn't know where to ask it so I would appreciate if someone give an answer to this.

Ha - I often think the exact same - that stress is a poison and it's killing all of us, maybe some faster than others. I know stress is actually a crucial part of life, but I don't believe it is normal at the incredibly high levels we endure in today's society. Most people just take it for granted that lives and jobs are continually stressful. People accept this as the way things should be. I am so bad at dealing with it that I finally realized I just CANNOT live like everyone else. Perhaps my tolerance of stress is lower, but it makes me both physically and mentally unhealthy and I can no longer endure it.

If we had no stress or anxiety how would we get ourselves out of bed in the morning?

Well I don't think stress is what wakes you up in the morning you would already wake up normally without stress. It just happens when you wake up not the other way around.

I think all stress is necessary for is in immediate danger to kick you up and run your reflexes that's all.

But of course it's just my opinion.

Come on think about this. Let's say you cut your finger. What's your body's first reaction, to stop the bleeding? No, first you feel the pain for a split second and you try to dissociate from it. Then comes the rest.

I know there's research that cortisol is the reason for you to become depressed. I'm not trying to take credit here. All I'm saying is what if the cause of real suffering is directly the pain from cortisol rather than your thoughts. It will change the whole perspective and create new treatments.

Doesn't it make sense that cortisol kills your brain cells because it acts like a poison and you don't want to feel the death of your cells and want to dissociate from there?

Just give it a thought, maybe this idea will cure at last most mental diseases, and please reply back your ideas or at least ask your doctor about this. I don't know how to get this out to authorities.

I'd love to hear more of this cortisol theory?

MSBLUE wrote:I'd love to hear more of this cortisol theory?

This seems to be an outdated four year old thread.

However; if going by this link here http://www.labtestsonline.org/understan ... /test.html

I'd say that without doctors and psychiatric/psychologist determining the underlying causes of an individual suspected of being diagnosed with P.T.S.D. symptoms. I think it premature and unprofessional of doctors using

Cortisol

on a patient as a guinea pig to determine their final professional diagnoses. There would have to be clear psychological and physical indicators from blood analysis related to the patient in question to impose or dispense this method otherwise.

Peace
Chris