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STRESS
DEFINITION NORMAL STRESS PATHOLOGICAL STRESS YOU CAUSE SYMPTOMS EFFECTS TO CONSULT

DEFINITION

The stress is the state of big nervous tension caused in the person for the excess of work, not satisfied aspirations, the anxiety, etc. it is evident Usually across a series of reactions that go from the long fatigue and the depletion up to headaches, gastritis, ulcers, etc., being able to cause even psychological disorders.

NORMAL STRESS

The normal stress cannot be eliminated, because it is a part of our life, even can be a positive if we can handle it efficiently.

The stress cannot be considered to be at first an illness but the answer, both physical and mental, to the adaptations and adjustments of the human being to the diverse vital events.

The stress causes the anxiety, which in small quantities is positive and healthy because it moves to do the things to us well.

The stress is a natural defense of the organism that is inside us and that serves to face to exceptional demands of difficult experiences in our daily life, it is also an important increase in the level of physiological and cognitive activation with resources also exceptional.

PATHOLOGICAL STRESS

When the stress transforms in a long and intense reaction it is very possible that it unleashes serious physical and psychic problems.

If there is not liberated the organism of these changes happened during the phase of recognition and consideration of the threat, one enters the state of chronic stress. When one feels stressed and adds even more stress, the regulatory centers of the brain tend to hyperreact causing physical wear, crisis of the crying, and potentially depression.

CAUSES OF PATHOLOGICAL STRESS

The exterior threats produce in our body a few stressful changes. This way our way of reacting to the problems, the demands and the dangers, is determined by an innate aptitude of struggle or flight, when the stimuli that come to us are interpreted like threatening.

Incomplete reactions to stimuli, not solved appropriately, for example:

In the work:

  • Excess or lacking in work.
  • Rapidity in realizing the task.
  • Need to take decisions.
  • It tires, for important physical effort.
  • Long and numerous trips.
  • Excessive number of working time.
  • Changes in the work.
  • Individual who is provided with insufficient responsibility.
  • Lacking in participation in the decision making.
  • Lacking in support on the part of the direction.
  • Technological changes to which it is necessary to adapt itself.
  • Lacking in safety in the work.
  • Incongruity or lacking in equity in an insufficient or excessive promotion.
  • Conscience of having reached the proper roof.

In the social relations:

  • Lacking in relations,
  • Hypocritical relations,
  • Distant relation.

Normal situations of the life:

  • to speak in public,
  • to do a love declaration...,
  • To realize or to take examinations,
  • These stimuli can produce biochemicals or electricity companies that can produce stress like; the cold - the heat - the noise - the coffee - the tobacco.

SYMPTOMS OF THE PATHOLOGICAL STRESS

The stress, especially the pathological one, usually appears with clear physical symptoms:

  • The pupils are enlarged to improve the vision,
  • The ear sharpens,
  • The muscles are tightened to answer to the challenge,
  • The blood is pumped to the brain to increase the arrival of oxygen to the cells and to favor the mental processes.
  • The cardiac and respiratory frequencies increase,
  • And as the blood turns aside preferably towards the head and the trunk, the extremities and especially the hands and the feet, they are perceived cold and sweaty.

SIDE EFFECTS OF SITUATIONS OF CHRONIC STRESS

The chronic stress can produce:

  • Susceptibility increase to the cold,
  • There increases the risk of the cardiac problems, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, you ulcerate, colawsuit and cancer.
  • Increases of the sugar in the blood.
  • The cholesterol increases, there is a liberation of greasy acids in the blood.
  • It increases the corticoids levels.
  • It diminishes the peripheral blood irrigation, diminishes the digestive system,
  • Often the stress collaborates to psychological disorders like the anxiety and the depression. A second time it produces an incapability to take decisions, sensation of confusion, incapability to concentrate, make difficult to direct the attention disorientation, olvidos frequent, mental blockades.

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Writing: Medical equipment   Update: June, 2009
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