Dear doctor i'm male unmarried age-31. One said that excessive anxiety can cause excessive cortisol and put fat metabolism in stress and standby. Is it good? If it is so? What will happen? Explain it.

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Whenever we are in stress, we will produce cortisol. Oftentimes we produce cortisol when there is no real threat and it is all made up in our heads. When this happens on a regular basis, the body struggles to get rid of the unused cortisol and most times it is not cleared. This causes more stress and more cortisol in the bargain piling up agony upon agony. The detoxification process is impossible and near aggravates your condition. My advise is for you to seek help in the form of counselling and learn some skills, techniques, and tools to counter the stress formation in the first place. This you can always carry into your future life too. Perhaps you experienced strict parenting; or you were intimidated by dire consequences for failure; perhaps you were brought up believing that you were not as good as others; perhaps you were forced to show undue regard for elders and felt inferior around them, etc. You must therefore immediately seek help from a counselor. In the meantime you must do certain things to build your constitution physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. Mental stability can be achieved by learning a few skills in handling emotions in an appropriate manner. Stress management skills, which have a lot to do with expressing emotions, will need to be a major part of your recovery program. Emotionally you need the help of a counselor and that will help you tremendously to move from anxiety to normal fear. Please persevere and cooperate through all the support you need and you will come through successfully. Develop your body?s health by physical fitness through exercise, good rest (sleep), and a proper diet. Any way what you need to focus on is to do vigorous exercise of the aerobic kind for the heart?s fitness; meditation for the brain?s fitness; sleep for a well rested mind and body; a sound spiritual well being for good confidence and stability; and a diet with lots of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Vigorous exercise, especially of the calisthenic kind, will make your heart, which is a muscle, grow larger; and then your heart will need to beat less often and you will respond to the anxiety with a calmer disposition. If your mind, constitution, and your emotions are in check and fit, you will never be disturbed again. You need to attend personality development courses, personal grooming courses, conversational skills courses, and definitely a good education will empower you to boost self-confidence and by default self-image. Learn never to compare yourself with others: you are unique and there is only one of your kind, ever. If you let that sink in and appreciate who you are truly, you will go places. 

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