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By ELEN JOHNSTON, HEALTH REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 16:33 BST, 29 August 2025 | Updated: 16:40 BST, 29 August 2025 <\/p>\n

A woman has revealed how quitting multitasking helped tackle the chronic stress that she feared would be the death of her.<\/p>\n

In a recent video posted on her\u00a0TikTok<\/a>\u00a0account @itsmillyevans, Milly Evans, a sex educator from Margate in England shared she was once ‘clinically stressed’.<\/p>\n

It got so bad she was signed off sick from work and developed ‘multiple disabling chronic illnesses’, she shared in the clip <\/a>that has amassed over half a million views.<\/p>\n

‘To be honest I was convinced that stress was going to be the thing that one day killed me,’ she said.<\/p>\n

But now she says she’s ‘one of the calmest’ people she knows, in large part thanks to stopping multitasking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I get it people’s lives are so busy, and people are obsessed with optimising what they do, but you have no idea how bad multitasking is for your brain,’ she said.<\/p>\n

It’s asking your brain to do too many things all at once ‘and it just can’t process that’, she explained.<\/p>\n

And many people can do it without even realising, she warned, by using two screens at once like simply scrolling through your phone while watching a film.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Experts have warned of the dangers of ‘media multitasking’ that can even include internet browsing while listening to music.<\/p>\n

Previously scientists worryingly found multi-tasking can shrink the part of the brain that processes emotion.<\/p>\n

Those who used multiple media devices at the same time had less ‘grey matter’ in the brain, which is responsible for controlling movement, memory and emotions.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, hundreds of social media users commented on the video, saying they are reluctant to give it up.<\/p>\n

One user wrote: ‘What if it’s multitasking you enjoy? I like to colour in while I watch TV or listen to audio books while cleaning.’<\/p>\n

But another said they’ve ‘stopped multitasking when cooking’, now ‘slowly getting all the ingredients ready’ and ‘felt a huge difference’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, slowing down was the very next tip she gave to tackling chronic stress in the following video in the series.<\/p>\n

She said: ‘You need to physically slow down and this isn’t me suggesting that you need to do less, keep doing what you’re doing, just try doing it a tiny bit slower.<\/p>\n

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‘You might think like I did that doing everything quickly is just being efficient and we often get praised for it, especially at school and work occasionally even on social media.<\/p>\n

‘But it’s one thing to do some things quickly and another thing to rush through every moment of your day.<\/p>\n

‘When you’re always in a rush, always in a hurry, from the moment you wake up to when you go to bed you are constantly telling your body there is this urgency.’<\/p>\n

For example, she says in the past she’d rush everywhere rather than ‘slowing down’ and ‘taking in the surroundings’.<\/p>\n

Her second example was food. ‘I love food, I look forward to it all day, it’s a moment of enjoyment and yet I often rush through it like so many of us do,’ she said.<\/p>\n

And finally, she said slowing down to get ready in the morning and for bed in the evening helped her feel much calmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the comment section, social media users shared they related to feeling this stressful sense of urgency.<\/p>\n

One user commented: ‘I call it “false sense of urgency” and I work really hard not to fall into the trap of thinking it’s real. It’s tough.’<\/p>\n

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