STRESS CAUSES AND TYPES
Stress is a physical, mental, or emotional response to events that causes bodily or mental tension. Stress can be caused by both good and bad experiences. It’s the body’s way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness. The events that create stress are called stressors. The human body responds to stressors by activating the nervous system and specific hormones. These hormones speed up heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, and metabolism. Blood vessels increase blood flow to large muscle groups, putting our muscles on alert. The liver releases some of its stored glucose to increase the body’s energy. And sweat is produced to cool the body. All of these physical changes prepare a person to react quickly and effectively to handle the pressure of the moment.
Types of stress: Depending on the stressors and the types of events we are dealing with, stress can apparent itself physically, emotionally and mentally.
Physical –Physical stress is a result of our body response to physical stress or like work, noise, an illness, exercise etc while psychological effects of stress may occurs when our mind perceives an inability to cope with a “challenge” of some kind. . This occurs when the body as a whole starts to suffer as a result of a stressful situation. Symptoms can manifest in a variety of ways and vary in their seriousness.
Very Often, the physiological and psychological reactions to stress will tend to interact and react with one another to produce additional stress. The most common physical symptom is headaches because stress causes people to unconsciously tense their neck, forehead and shoulder muscles. However long-term stress can lead to digestive problems including ulcers, insomnia, fatigue, high blood pressure, nervousness and excessive sweating, heart disease, strokes and even hair loss.
Emotional – The emotional stress increases, the emotions get worse, heightening the emotional stress. Thus, the problem recreates the cause and the problem only gets worse. these responses are due to stress affecting the mind and include anxiety, anger, depression, irritability, frustration, over-reaction to everyday problems, memory loss and a lack of concentration for any task.
Anger is a common response to frustration or social stress and can become a danger to other individuals if not kept in check. Anxiety is normally shown as a response to loss, failure, danger or a fear of the unknown. Anger is a common response to frustration or social stress and can become a danger to other individuals if not kept in check.
Psychological –Symptoms include withdrawal from society, phobias, compulsive behaviors, eating disorders and night terrors.
