Stress : Seed Of Death

What is Stress?

Stress is the god gifted defense system or traumatic event in our body. Which helps us to assist, in any type of Endangered situation which may happen to us. Stress is the capability of our body to respond to any type of dangerous or unethical situation.

Stressful situations come to be real or imaginary, but our defense system never gets late to respond to any stressful situation. During stressful situations, one can face several health problems like rapid increase in blood pressure, heart rate, etc. This rapid action of our body towards stressful situations is an automatic the process is known as the “fight or flight response” reaction or the “stress response.”

Body response toward stress is the way of protecting humankind from sudden unusual changes in the situation like in the emergency situation. Stress can save your life, by empowering you after pumping sufficient amounts of adrenaline in your body. Which instantly increases the defending power of your body.

Stress can also help you in meeting your day to day life challenges, like presentation, any types of project deadlines or even sharpening your focus during playing the game. 

But after a certain point of time, stress plays a major role in damaging our health, mood, productivity, and relationships instead of benefiting us.

Fight or Flight Response: 

When your body feels stressed & threatened, then your body releases a flooded amount of stress hormones, which include several medical term stress hormones like adrenaline & cortisol. Which prepares us to take action towards threatened situations. This results in an increase in the heartbeat, muscles tighten, blood pressure rises, breath quickens and your senses become sharpened.

Types of Stress:

The National Institute of Mental Health identifies two types of stress Acute Stress

 and Chronic Stress. There are certainly three types of stressors, because of which stress cause to us:

Routine Stressor: Which is because of routine work and family.

Sudden Stressor: This is because of some business problems, finding a job, or sudden job loss.

Traumatic Stressor: Which causes because of war, assault, accident, and disaster.

Acute Stress:

This is one of the most common types. This type of stress is a part of life. The short-term stress and gets faded out after problems get solved. During acute stress, people feel the stress because of recent arguments or upcoming challenges in the future.

For example, a person can feel the stress because of the recent argument with their wife, husband, family, and boss, etc. Acute stress doesn’t consist of the same amount of loss in the long term as Chronic Stress. The short-term effect includes tension headaches and an upset stomach, as well as moderate amounts of distress. But on the other hand, Repetitive events of acute stress over an extended period of time can become chronic and harmful.

Chronic Stress:

This type of stress develops after a long period of time & is way more harmful than the Acute Stress.  There are various types of situations because of which chronic stress gets developed over a long period of time like Family problems, unhappy marriage and ongoing poverty are the perfect examples of chronic stress formation. 

Chronic stress will cause brain damage. Make it more difficult for the body to return to the normal level of stress hormone. Which will be very harmful in the long term for everyone. Which will cause the various type of Health problem like Respiratory, Reproduction, Sleep, Immune System.

Constant state of any type of stress may cause various types of diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Depression, Anxiety, Mental Disorder and Obsessive-compulsive disorder etc. People with chronic stress are at the risk of a serious breakdown. Which can be lead to suicide, violent action, heart attack, and stroke. 

Sign and Symptoms of stress:

The most dangerous thing about stress is how easily it can creep up on you. You will get used to it, without getting an idea about it. You will not notice how much it affects you, even as it takes a heavy toll. That is why it will become more important to know about signs and symptoms.

There are four type of symptoms & affect of stress on body:

• Cognitive Symptoms:
• Emotional Symptoms:
• Physical Symptoms:
• Behavioral Symptoms:

• Cognitive Symptoms:
• Memory Loss.
• Less Sleep.
• Excessive Sleep.
• Unable to concentrate.
• Constant Worry.
• Poor Judgment.

• Emotional Symptoms:
• Depression.
• Moodiness.
• Anxiety.
• Feeling Loneliness.
• Mental & Emotional Health Problem.

• Physical Symptoms:
• Aches & pain.
• Diarrhea.
• Constipation.
• Chest Pain.
• Loss in Sex Drive.
• Frequently cold and flu.

• Behavioral Symptoms:
• Sweating.
• Cramps.
• Needle sensation.
• Eating more or less.
• Withdrawing from others.
• Using Alcohol to relax.
• Nervous Habits.

   Cause of Stress:

Situation or pressure in which we feel stress is known as a stressor. There is various type of stressor, which cause acute or chronic stress. We normally think that bad relationships, family problems, and a lot of work will produce stressors. But anything which requires a lot of attention will produce stress.

This may include buying a house, getting married, going to college and getting a promotion, etc. But finally, what causes stress depends on the perception of the individual one. Working with deadlines in the office might be enjoyable for one and stressful for others.

• External cause:
• A major change in the life.
• Divorce.
• Accident.
• Death of a loved one.
• Children & Family.
• Financial problem.

• Internal cause:
• Rigid Thinking.
• Negative Thoughts.
• All or nothing attitude.
• Inability to accept new or different.

• Management of Stress :
• Medicines.
• Exercise.
• Reducing the intake of alcohol.
• Nutrition.
• Priority Management.
• Breathing & Relaxation.
• Meditation.

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