🧘🏽 Emotional Regulation & Coping Skills *coming soon *coming soon
Course overview
Lesson Overview

13.3 – How Depression Impacts the Brain and Body: Depression changes more than emotions—it affects brain chemistry, hormones, and physical health. It can lower levels of serotonin and dopamine, which are chemicals that regulate mood and motivation. The brain’s stress system becomes overactive, releasing cortisol that keeps the body in a constant state of tension. Sleep becomes irregular, appetite shifts, and energy drains faster than it can be restored. The immune system can weaken, making a person more likely to get sick. Muscles can ache, and fatigue can feel like walking through thick mud. The brain’s ability to focus or make decisions slows down, turning simple tasks into challenges. These changes are not just mental—they’re real, measurable effects of depression on the body’s systems. Over time, untreated depression can even reshape neural pathways, reinforcing hopeless thinking. But treatment—therapy, medication, movement, and mindfulness—can help the brain rebuild balance and strength. Understanding that depression is both a mental and physical condition helps remove guilt and reminds people that healing requires care for the whole self, not just the mind.

About this course

Strategies to manage emotions effectively, build resilience, and respond to challenges with balance and control.

This course includes:
  • Guided mindfulness and emotional regulation exercises
  • Coping strategy planners and reflection tools
  • Real-world scenarios to practice emotional management skills

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