Which hormone causes overthinking?

Cortisol is the main villain who creates unhealthy overthinking and is released in the hypothalamus – a region very near to the centre of your brain.

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“If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.”

– Emerson M. Pugh

Overthinking – it’s a blessing and a curse. It allows you to jump steps ahead in an exam problem to save time, but it also causes you to stay up late wondering if what she said was because of what he said, or did she just say it as a joke?

We know the definition of overthinking and the emotions that come with it, but what’s happening chemically as these thoughts race through our brains?

To start off the game that is overthinking, we have a few key players: dopamine – our own personal coach who motivates us and produces feelings of risk and reward, and adrenaline – the noisy child who, once let loose, increases your heart rate and blood pressure. From here on, we have two players who are barely ever in the same room together: serotonin, who brings nothing but happiness, and cortisol, who modulates stress levels. Cortisol is the type that you’re happy to have small how’s-the-weather type conversations with. If you’re placed right next to them at a dinner party, however, then your mood will take a turn for the worse and your stress levels will rise higher and higher. Cortisol is the main villain who creates unhealthy overthinking and is released in the hypothalamus – a region very near to the centre of your brain.

So, how do we stop this villain if we aren’t in the mood for overthinking?

Change the chemical structure of your brain.

After cortisol is released it must be captured by cortisol receptors to have an impact. Therefore, if you block the path to these receptors then cortisol cannot cause you any stress.

Change the physical structure of your brain.

Research has found that an area of your brain called the orbitofrontal cortex, located just behind your eyes and in front of the hypothalamus, is associated with stress levels. Those with a thicker orbitofrontal cortex on the left side have higher levels of optimism and less anxiety. So, instead of having to directly face the cortisol villain yourself, you can combat its negative effects by modifying another structure in your brain. Sleep, exercise and recognise that the cortisol villain is annoying you before it progresses to engage you in a very long and unenjoyable dinner conversation. Okay, I’ll admit that the first two suggestions were a bit far-fetched. Still, the first suggestion underlies the workings of mood control drugs and the second suggestion serves as important information for neural projects that look to create a human brain from scratch. But this last suggestion does work – and lots of research has been done to prove it. So, what’s the difference between your relaxed, easy-going self and the one with a million thoughts racing through? A few milligrams of cortisol, so science tells us. But, of course, the story goes on… we all know that the human brain just isn’t that simple!

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Which Hindu king married his own sister?

She was born a princess of Kashi and was the sister of King Prasenajit. ... Kosala Devi Spouse Bimbisara Issue Ajatashatru Dynasty Haryanka (by marriage) Ikshvaku (by birth) Father King Maha-Kosala 2 more rows

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First wife of king Bimbisara

Kosala Devī was Empress consort of the Magadha Empire as the first wife of Emperor Bimbisara (558–491 BC). She was born a princess of Kashi and was the sister of King Prasenajit. Her first name is Bhadra-śrī.[1]

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Kosala Devī was born to the King of Kosala, Maha-Kosala. She was the sister of King Prasenajit who succeeded her father as the ruler of Kosala. She was married to King Bimbisara, and brought Kashi as dowry in the marriage. She became his principal queen. Buddhist tradition makes Ajatashatru a son of hers;[3] the Jain tradition make him a son of her husband's second wife, Chellana.[4] Her niece, Princess Vajira, the daughter of Pasenadi (Prasenjit) was given in marriage to Ajatashatru.[5] When her husband Bimbisara died at the hands of his own son Ajatashatru, Empress Kosala Devi has said to have died of grief out of her love for her husband. The government revenues of an estate in Kashi had been settled upon by her father as pin money on her marriage. At her death, the payment of course ceased. Ajatashatru then invaded Kashi.[5]

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^ https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T0632 ^ http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/BDLM/sutra/chi_pdf/sutra9/T15n0634.pdf ^ Rapson, Edward James (1955). The Cambridge History of India. CUP Archive. p. 183. a b Hemchandra, Raychaudhuri (2006). Political History Of Ancient India. Genesis Publishing. p. 170.

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