What is stress?
The nonspecific, fairly predictable psychophysiologic response to any challenge, risk, threat, change, demand, or physical force which if prolonged can fatigue or damage the body to the point of synmptoms and disease.
Types of Stress
There are two types of stress:
Eustress (good): an optimal level of stress that leads to maximal health, performance, and fulfillment.
Distress (bad): stress level that leads to impariment of health, performance, and fulfillment.
What is a stressor?
An event or a condition that may be purely physical, social, psychological that triggers a stress response.
What happens when you are stressed?
Your body makes hormones that increase your heart rate, breathing rate, and your energy. This process is known as the fight-or-flight stress response. Stress can cause headaches, insomnia, and other body pain. Your immune system gets diminished.
I really like how you encapsulate such a complex issue like stress. Although stress often comes up as a topic in my life I never really came across anything that laid out such a simple explanation like you did.
ReplyDeleteI'm still curious as to how exactly stress interacts with our life though, what can we do to mitigate its effects? I read somewhere that if an individual actually likes stress it will have no adverse effect on the body.
From your title I was expecting something a little more cliche, this wasn't. Great work keep up the blogging so far you have a unique voice.