How Chronic Complaining Impacts Your Brain Health: A Path to Improved Mental Well-being

A 2016 study by Stanford researchers found that complaining shrinks your hippocampus, which is the part of your brain critical to problem solving.

It’s also one of the central areas in your brain that Alzheimer’s destroys. Complaining also releases cortisol, the stress hormone, which raises your blood pressure and blood sugar. Frequent complaining can lead to heart disease and diabetes.

Here’s the thing…I couldn’t find the original source of this study, meaning it likely doesn’t exist. (You should always seek original sources, not just believe everything you read.)

Here’s the other thing…we don’t NEED a study to know complaining is bad for your brain. Just like we don’t need a study to know roundhouse kicks are bad for your groin.

Not a good time.

At the very least, complaining makes you more prone to seeing the world through a lens of negativity.

When you develop a pattern of chronic venting, you are constructing a broken model of the world in your mind.

And the people around you ALSO become more negative (or if they’re smart, they run away). Ever found yourself in the midst of a flock of fault-finders, echoing their…