Scary movies or tv shows send your body into fight or flight response – activating your sympathetic nervous system and increasing the cortisol circulating around your body due to the sensory overload you’re experiencing

This then wreaks havoc on your hormones because unfortunately your body isn’t aware you’re watching the scary movie for ‘fun’ and genuinely thinks your life is in danger. So it does all it can to protect you

Scary movies aren’t the only thing that puts us into sensory overload, we are bombarded with these things on a daily basis including:
– loud noises like phones ringing, and honking cars
– rapid visual effects in movies + games, flickering of screens
– radio + EMF waves
– fluorescent lighting
– extreme work hours + workload
… and of course the violence in things like scary movies

You may be prone to experiencing sensory overload if you are consistently doing any of the following:
– listening to music at a high volume whilst training
– watch or play fast-moving or violent movies/video games often or before bed
– stare at a computer screen for a large portion of your day
– always have music on in the background
– constantly exposed to fluorescent lighting throughout the day

This not only affects our hormones, but our neurotransmitters, particularly one called GABA which is what helps keep us calm and our anxiety at bay