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Therapy Alone Can’t Fix Your Shrunken Brain.

Check your diet and lifestyle, too.

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Chronic stress and trauma reduces the volume of vital regions of the brain that take care of how you process your thoughts and emotions. Amygdala and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) activity, responsible for your stress responses, is also altered.