What is stress? What are stressors? Can everyone get stressed? Is it bad? Can it affect our health? Can it be managed? These are just a few of the questions we have in mind about stress. To manage stress, we need to know how it works.
Stress is a normal response to events where you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way. When you sense danger, your body reacts in what is called the fight or flight reaction. This reaction triggers a short burst of adrenaline that lets you do things way beyond your capacity. While this can be helpful, too much of it leads to the deterioration of health, mood, work, relationships, and the overall quality of life.
Our body does not have the capacity to distinguish physical threats from psychological ones. For this reason, we can get stressed from small things such as busy schedules, arguments, traffic jams, and bills. We can eventually adapt to the unfavorable circumstances and be able to work faster and harder. But this can turn to what we call chronic stress, which is the result of long-term prolonged stressor exposure.
Chronic stress causes serious health problems. It causes blood pressure to rise, lowers immunity, increases the risk of heart diseases, contributes to infertility, and speeds up aging. Chronic stress has also been strongly linked with anxiety and depression.
Once the toll of stress has reached very high levels it can be observed in its physical, emotional, behavioral and cognitive symptoms which include; memory problems, inability to concentrate, poor judgment, moodiness, irritability, agitation, feeling of getting overwhelmed, depression, difficulty in sleeping, eating either too little or too much, isolation, chest pains, nausea and a lot more. Which can also be factors for other disorders; its important that when you start to experience any of these symptoms collectively, you should visit your doctor in order to get professional opinion and advice.
Stress has many negative effects. But with the right attitude and a few stress-management techniques, we can handle stress. Stress is often unavoidable. It is up to us as to how high our stress levels can get. By knowing how stress works, it is easier for us to face it head on and not let it go out of control. - 16890
Stress is a normal response to events where you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way. When you sense danger, your body reacts in what is called the fight or flight reaction. This reaction triggers a short burst of adrenaline that lets you do things way beyond your capacity. While this can be helpful, too much of it leads to the deterioration of health, mood, work, relationships, and the overall quality of life.
Our body does not have the capacity to distinguish physical threats from psychological ones. For this reason, we can get stressed from small things such as busy schedules, arguments, traffic jams, and bills. We can eventually adapt to the unfavorable circumstances and be able to work faster and harder. But this can turn to what we call chronic stress, which is the result of long-term prolonged stressor exposure.
Chronic stress causes serious health problems. It causes blood pressure to rise, lowers immunity, increases the risk of heart diseases, contributes to infertility, and speeds up aging. Chronic stress has also been strongly linked with anxiety and depression.
Once the toll of stress has reached very high levels it can be observed in its physical, emotional, behavioral and cognitive symptoms which include; memory problems, inability to concentrate, poor judgment, moodiness, irritability, agitation, feeling of getting overwhelmed, depression, difficulty in sleeping, eating either too little or too much, isolation, chest pains, nausea and a lot more. Which can also be factors for other disorders; its important that when you start to experience any of these symptoms collectively, you should visit your doctor in order to get professional opinion and advice.
Stress has many negative effects. But with the right attitude and a few stress-management techniques, we can handle stress. Stress is often unavoidable. It is up to us as to how high our stress levels can get. By knowing how stress works, it is easier for us to face it head on and not let it go out of control. - 16890
About the Author:
Eddy Kong, certified behavioral consultant (USA) used to be always under stress. Just 5 years ago, he was exposed to behavioral handlement and has discovered many techniques to handle stress effectively. For additional detailed instructions on stress handlement, be sure to visit http://www.managingstresssecrets.com, and get your FREE 10-day mini-ecourse immediately.
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