Stress has become an inherent part of our day-to-day life. From home related tensions to work stress, we have it all. It is a known fact that stress is harmful for the human body and can pose serious side effects but recent reports suggest that stress has serious long term effects, including brain injury.
It has been said that people with stress are 700 per cent more likely to have anxiety, depression, insomnia or memory loss. “For people who have already suffered from a traumatic brain injury, stress could be one of the reasons for it to become a long-term injury”, Maulik P Purohit, Chief of Medical Services and Research- Neurorehabilitation and Traumatic Brain Injury, said.
“For people who have suffered from brain injury, more than a third of them have sleep apnea, over 97 per cent have subjective sleep complaints, 85 per cent of them have fatigue during the day and 54 per cent suffer from sleep fragmentation”, he said while delivering a lecture in Chennai.
The lack of sleep and a disrupted sleep cycle will further increase stress, he said, adding that integrated therapies including yoga and meditation were now increasingly being prescribed by practitioners.
