Anxiety and Stress

By Dr. Bert Pitts Anxiety is an emotion that serves important preparatory and signaling functions, but which can easily escalate, “derail”, and become disruptive. Anxiety is intended to signal us about impending threat or danger and cause the adrenal or “fight or flight” system to become activated. Unfortunately, the human brain cannot discriminate between real […]

by Dr. Bert Pitts Learn and understand what stress is, what it is not, and that not all stress is bad. You can think of stress as physical, mental, and/or emotional tension and strain that has no clear source, instead, is just “there” or free-floating. We human beings are designed to need basically two things,