...Effects and Solutions of Stress Kennedie Montoya Grand Canyon University: PSY-102 November 16, 2014 Effects and Solutions of Stress American Psychological Association studies show that 75% of adults have stated that they experienced moderate to high levels of stress in the past thirty days (Esmond, 2009). Year after year, stress levels are getting higher and higher. Everyone is unique and all acquire stress form different aspects in their lives, but most do not know the repercussions that may come with stress. Many people accept that stress is a part of life that must be dealt with when it is not. Stress, often times, is overlooked because people have a vague idea of where in the brain it affects, how stress affects their body, and that treatment is available. Effects of Stress on the Brain The brain is a complex organ that is highly affected when a person suffers from stress. Stress, large or small, has many effects, such as shrinkage of the brain, killing of brain cells, and diminishing memory. There is a factor known as GATA1 in the brain that is activated by stress. When GATA1 is activated, it lowers the synaptic connections that occur in the brain (Frazier, N.D.). The fewer the connections, the lower the volume of the brain is. Fortunately, this is not permanent and can be cured. The chemicals that carry messages from one nerve cell to another become depleted, and the brain becomes sluggish and inefficient (Frazier, N.D.). Symptoms that could come from this would...
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...detect and handle your stress level My self-assessment tells me about my level of stress that I will have a high risk of becoming ill in the near future. I’m not surprised about my stress level but is surprised about becoming ill in the near future. Not sure if this is something I would want to know what’s in my near future. This kind of information can be stressful itself in knowing what you may be facing due to my stress level. However, it is useful to know about this so that I can take action now to prevent any illness pertaining to my health. Seeing friends and old classmates losing their life to unaware illness is a wake-up call for me. Stress can cause sever health problems and some cases, can cause death. I have no choice but to take this advice regarding my concerns over stress-related illnesses that may occur. Currently, my stress has been causing me significant unhappiness. After reviewing the article discovered by the American Psychological Association how stress affects the body. This article emphasize the musculoskeletal system and how the muscles tense up due to your stress level. Explaining how chronic stress can cause the muscles in your body to be a constant state of guardedness. And dealing with chronic stress seems to also cause many types of headaches including tension in your shoulders and the neck. I never knew millions of people suffers from this type of stress-related pain that affects the body. Not knowingly how it can also affect your breathing especially...
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...Stress is something all people experience from time to time. Anything that poses a threat or challenge to ones’ well-being is stress. It can affect you mentally and physically. Stress can be beneficial or atrocious to ones’ health. Stress can emerge in many different forms from school, work, and divorce. Stress can also make a person feel frustrated, angry, sad, nervous, anxious and even hopeless at times. Stress is the way the body responds to a threat or challenge. This response is known as fight or flight response telling the body to either to fight or get away from immediate danger. Fight or flight response is based on the sympathetic nervous system responding. The body produces larger quantities of chemicals cortisol, adrenaline and other chemicals, which activates a higher heart rate, sweating, and alertness. Non-essential body functions such as the digestive system are stagnant. In addition, the body’s energy is concentrated on breathing, blood flow, alertness and muscle use. There are three kinds of stress acute, episodic, and chronic. Acute stress is the most common of the three. It comes from demands and pressures of the recent past and anticipated demands and pressures of the near future. Episodic stress comes when a person makes unreasonable or unrealistic demands. These demands get clustered together resulting in stress because of not being able to accomplish all of the goals. Chronic stress is brought about by long time exposure from unhappy marriage, poverty...
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...Human stress “You are only human. You don’t have to have it together every minute of every day.” By Anne Hathaway. While I was researching about human stress I found relevant information. Human stress is our body’s way of responding to any kind of demand of threat. In modern time humans stress is an issue that affect teenagers, adults and seniors. Human stress has causes, symptoms, affect our bodies, and there is ways to manage it. To begin, what is stress? Stress is our body’s way of responding to any kind of demand of threat. When your sense danger- is the body’s way of protecting you. Causing major damage to your health, your mood, your productivity, your quality of life. Another question that may come with this is what are the causes? Anything that puts high demands on you can be stressful. Stress can also be internal or self-generated, when you worry excessively about something. Common external causes of stress are: major life changes, financial problems, work or school,...
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...INTRODUCTION Male breast cancer is practically “unheard of”, with only 1% of breast cancer patients being male. The topic I researched was male breast cancer and how it might affect the body and mind. What I researched about was breast cancer itself, risks of it happening, symptoms, what genetics have to do with it and how stress affects the human body. BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE BREAST CANCER Breast cancer is a malignant group of cancer cells that surrounds and spreads to its surrounding tissues. If a male developed it, they would most likely notice a lump on their chest, often hard to identify. However, a male would also often delay their visit to the doctor because of how small the breast tissue they have is and the fact that men having breast cancer is basically “inconceivable”. There’s a small amount of information that gets spread around about breast cancer in males, which is why their visits to the doctors about it are usually delayed to the extent of horrible pain. MOST LIKELY TO GET IT IF......
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...essay will define stress and stressors. It will also explain the how stress can affect an individuals and outline and evaluate the at least two models of stress. It will explore how stress can be measured and outline and evaluate two models of stress and stressors. Stress is a pressure or force exerted on an object according to engineers and physicians (Gross r,Mcilveen r and Cooligan2000). Lazarus and folkman (1984) define stress as “a pattern of negative physiological states and psychological response occurring in a situation where people perceive threats to their well-being which they may be unable to meet” (Grossr,Mcilveen r and Cooligan 2000). There are different views of stress. Stress as a “stimulus” which means it is applied to the person or stressor and it is in the environment. This relates to the engineering model of stress identified by Cox (1978)(blackboard).secondly stress is seen as a “response”, the body identifies stress as a reaction made within the body(Blackboard).Selye 1956 defines stress as “the non-specific response of the body to any demands made upon it” this relates to the physiological model of stress(Blackboard). Finally stress is viewed as an interaction, in this view stress is seen as a transaction between environment and the individual and this relates to the “transactional model of stress” (Blackboard). The ability to cope with stress and the meaning people give to stressors will define the stress experienced (Blackboard).How people react and what...
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...Top 9 reasons on how stress affects eating. We are all if not all the time, under some level of stress in dealing with our daily routines. Be it stress at the work place, college, school or even at home, it still pervades us. We will discuss the top ten reasons on how stress affects our eating over the next few days. Reason #1: The relation between food cravings and stress. - Stress can have a powerful effect on your appetite and food cravings. Stress affects how you absorb nutrients, the way your body chooses healthy foods and how you digest those foods. For a number of people, food becomes a mechanism for coping with stress. Reason #2: One can eat food at random hours due to stress. - The emotional eater: Emotional eaters choose food when they are feeling anxious due to which they have a tendency to overeat at every meal....
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...My Stress Action Management Plan Southern New Hampshire University There are many factors in life that we cannot control. Traffic when you’re late to work, work and school deadlines that must be met, children who would rather quarrel than agree. These situations can and most likely will induce stress on an individual. Stress is defined as a state of negative tension in the emotional well-being of a person. Stress is the process on how we handle and cope with our environment (Myers, 2014). This tension, or stressors, can create anxiety, unintended pressure, and can completely hassle a person’s life. Stress relates to the field of Psychology in that it affects the bodies physical and mental state. Negative stress can cause what experts define as psychophysiological illnesses, which include hypertension and migraines (Myers, 2014). Negative stress can also be more taxing on other physical ailments with certain diseases. Throughout the course of my life I’ve had many ups and many downs. There have been situations that I have been in control of, and others that I have not and the stress of these situations has affected my life in different ways. The first stressor in my life I would say would have to be the biggest thing out of my control. February 14, 2011 I was sent to the hospital with a horrible headache. Eventually, my vision became impaired and an MRI and Spinal tap revealed the diagnoses of Multiple Sclerosis. I had never heard of this disease or known anyone...
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...to stress and its side effects on the body, both short and long term. Stress in something we’ve all experienced and although many of us are aware of how it affects us in the moment, we often don’t think about the long term physically, physiological, and neurological affects is has on our bodies. As a psychology major, the HPA axis is something I’ve encountered in many of my courses and although I understand the basics of it and some of its long term effects; I find the need to explore this into further depths in order to understand how it affects someone in my position, a college student. Not only would I like to explore the HPA axis, the mechanism of its activation and side effects, but I would...
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...How Stress Affects Our Health November 25, 2015 How Stress Affects Our Health In life there is not one human being who has not felt the anxiety or heart pounding feeling of being stressed. I believe this is a silent disease that slowly takes over one’s life one way or another. According to Kiev (1974), from a medical standpoint stress is just a nervous tension because life is being lived too quickly; therefore, the energy is being wasted. Stress can wear an individual out and cause heath issues once entering adulthood. Feeling stressed is so common in everyday life that it has become a way of life. When individuals are under stress they tend to panic, not realizing the toll it is taking on their body and mind. Stress starts to affect the body by prolonging the levels of fat, causing the immune system to diminish and leaving the body weak and vulnerable to infections (Reinhold, 1996). There are several types of stresses that can affect you and cause cognitive issues, emotional issues, mental issues, and physical issues. A type of stress that many come across several times in their life is short-term stress. Probably the most common type of stress that there is. This type of stress that last for a small amount of time, hens the name short-term stress. An example of short-term stress is when there is a deadline on an assignment in school or work. It is something that once you have completed and turned in on the deadline all stress is completely gone. Chronic life stress...
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...Effects Of Stress Stress is a normal physical reaction to events that make you feel threatened or upset. Many different things can cause stress. It can be caused by emotional things such as relationships. Identifying what may be causing your stress is the first step in learning how to deal with your stress. Stress stops being helpful and starts causing major damage to your well being, your mood, your productivity, your relationship, and our quality of life. The situations and pressures that cause stress are known as stressors. We often think of stressors as a bad thing, such as a very busy work day or a hurtful relationship. However, anything that puts pressure on you or forces you to change the way you think is stressful. This might also include good things or events such as getting married, buying a house, going to college or even getting a promotion. What level of stress depends on, at least in part, on how you accept it. Something that is stressful to you may not be stressful to someone else. Your ability to deal stress depends on many things such as how your relationship is going, your general outlook on life or your emotional status. Effects of Stress: Your body doesn’t know the difference between physical stress and mental stress. Thinking about things that stress you out such as mate accident monthly bills, your body reacts the same way as if you were facing a life or death situation. If you have a lot of troubles and worries, your stress level is...
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...This assignment is based upon stress, the bio-psychosocial approach on how stress can affect health, well-being and the maintenance of homeostasis. There are many definitions of stress but the majority of definitions put emphasis on the relationship between the individual and the environment. This is called the bio-psychosocial approach. When treating patients the Practitioner should take a more holistic approach when determining the type of treatment that is required, this would include taking into account the patients lifestyle, environment and social support. The World Health Organisation states that ‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. (WHO 1948). Stress can be defined as any type of change that causes physical, emotional or psychological strain. However, there are many types of stress and not all types of stress are harmful or negative. One theory is that stress is the result of a persons appraisal process. The assessment of whether personal resources are sufficient to meet the demands of the environment. Stress has been identified as being the individuals ability to adapt to the environment (Lazarus and Folkman 1984; Lazarus and Launer 1978; Pervin 1989). There are two types of stress response which Lazarus (1966) made a distinction between, these are psychological and physiological stress. Lazarus stated that physiological stress is a response to a physical damage already incurred...
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...There are two different kinds of stress. They both affect the body and the mind differently. Acute stress occurs when the nervous system is activated to stimulate the adrenal glands which cause the heart rate to increase as well as the blood pressure and breathing rate. After this happens it takes the body approximately 20 to 60 minutes to return to its normal state. (Lyle H. Miller, 2013). This response is also known as the flight or fight response. Usually this happens when the body either decides to fight or flee the initial threat. Acute stress is caused by specific events that involve unpredictability, demands and pressure from the recent pass, novelty, and a threat to the ego. For example you may receive a phone call while at work saying that your child has a medical emergency. This may cause your blood pressure to raise which in return you experience acute stress. This type of on the spot stress however can be good for you because of the hormones released which cause you to deal with the situation. Since acute stress is short term it doesn’t have time to do any lengthy damage. Emotional stress is a form of acute stress which is caused by anger, irritability, anxiety or depression. While dealing with acute stress the body experiences muscular problems such as tension headaches, back pain, and tendon and ligaments problems. The body may also experience sweaty palms, heart palpitations, dizziness, and shortness of breath, chest pain, a rise in blood pressure, or cold hands...
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...November 2015 The Effects That Stress Has On Health Stress is a word that constantly gets tossed around with different meanings and connotations. Many people do not realize what a significant effect that it can have on people and their families. Merriam-Webster defines stress as a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, etc. The denotation of stress can also be stated as something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety. In a medical or biological context, stress is a physical, mental, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension (medicinenet.com). It does not just interfere with your daily life; it causes many health problems. Stress can be as acute or as minute as the patient allows it to be but despite the assumptions, stress is a terrible disease that can affect the health of many including altered brain function, internal organ issues, and mental instability. There are many different causes of stress depending on the type of person the patient may be. Money, the economy, work, relationships, and responsibilities are all recorded factors known to cause stress. Stress can be caused by a deadline you have to meet at work or even the concern of pleasing your spouses or relatives. Workplace stress can affect your ability to apply and keep jobs or appease your boss. According to a survey from the American Psychological Association, more than one third of American workers experience chronic work stress (helpguide.org). School can...
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...Eating disorders are eating habits that affect the mental and physical health of the body. Eating habits include insufficient food intake or excessive food intake. One of the most common forms of eating disorders is bulimia nervosa. Bulimia can be classified in two categories, purging bulimia and non-purging bulimia. Purging bulimia is when an individual forces himself or herself to vomit by drug misuse or by sticking their fingers into their throat to get out the food they had just binged on. Other ways one might try to quickly lose calories and stop weight gain include “fasting, strict dieting or excessive exercise” (Mayo Clinic Staff). However, trying to lose calories with either one of these methods is commonly known as purging, even if...
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