Acute Stress Psychology

Stress affects health in a number of ways. It is defined by James (2011) as pressure or tension that comes in many shapes and forms and furthermore the body and mind in particular reacts psychologically and even emotionally.

Stress is a big factor in everyday life. It influences how we approach life and events. Stress is why people run tight schedules and diet regularly. The power stress has is a negative effect over our brain and our body. Many people do not understand how to cope with stress. Therefore, people suffer from physical illness due to stress. Learning is not taking place when someone undergoes stress.

We’ve all gone through this feeling of exhaustion known as exercise. It can tire us out, yet leave a rewarding, kind of paradoxical feeling of energy.

Stress is a very common everyday thing. People have stress so much that most of the time they don’t even know how much it’s affecting them. Stress can really affect your body, mind, and behavior. It is a normal response to situations that make you feel upset or threatened in a way. Stress is the body’s way of change. The change can either be good or bad.

Aerobic fitness is the body ability to exercise for prolonged time whereby most of the energy came from the aerobic capacity and cardiovascular endurance. The most popular way been used to increase the aerobic capacity is the endurance training. An example of endurance training is LSD; this method of training involves performing exercise at a low intensity (57% VO2 max or 70% of maximum heart rate. Usually these type of training are means for athlete who going to compete in long distance event such as marathon, triathlon and ultra-marathon. According to (Sloan et al., 2011) endurance training had been proved to increase

“Acute Stress Disorder is characterized by the development of severe anxiety, dissociative, and other symptoms that occurs within one month after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor (e.g., witnessing a death or serious accident). As a response to the traumatic event, the individual develops dissociative symptoms. Individuals with Acute Stress Disorder have a decrease in emotional responsiveness, often finding it difficult or impossible to experience pleasure in previously enjoyable activities, and frequently feel guilty about pursuing usual life tasks” (Acute, 2016).

During exercise, glucose is required in large amounts at a faster rate. The glucose and fructose (which is converted to glucose) in sports drinks provides the cell with the carbohydrates that are required for ATP synthesis. In addition to glucose, electrolytes such as sodium are added to sports drinks. The thirst mechanism doesn't initiate until 2% of bodily fluid has been lost. However, by the time the thirst mechanism initiates,performance has already decreased. Sodium initiates the thirst mechanism prematurely to solve this problem. In addition to premature thirst initiation, sodium assists muscle

Ever heard that a workout will make you burn more calories for the rest of the day? Exercise oxygen consumption is the amount of oxygen that our body consumes following exercise. It’s in excess of the pre-exercise oxygen consumption. Our body uses more oxygen after an exercise than before. This results in expending more calories during our recovery from exercise than before it. The reason someone may experience this is because their body is returning to a resting state which requires energy. That’s the reason that there is an increase in calories expended after exercise compared to before it.

Acute Stress Disorder or ASD is a phenomenon that happens during or shortly after a traumatic event. It can affect people in many different ways but it is usually debilitating for up to one month. There has been controversy and stigma attached to the diagnosis of ASD since it was first added to the DSM-IV. This paper will illustrate the definition of ASD, the diagnostic guidelines, the difference between ASD and Acute Stress Reaction (ASR), symptoms and effective treatments, the impact of ASD and the coping skills needed to successfully get through it, and a biblical story and perspective about stress disorders. What is ASD and is it an appropriate response to

There are differences in how a female and a male responds to stress. For females, it is usually a tend and befriend way of responding. For a male, it is usually a fight or flight respond.

Physical fitness has two main classifications-performance related and health related. People have different performance related requirements in accordance with their occupation but all people have the same health related requirements (The World). Then there are two types of exercise that helps tone a person’s body while increasing its endurance. These are aerobic and anaerobic. Aerobic exercise is exercise that uses the muscles and bones. Cardio activities are a good example of this, such as running or biking. This type of exercise increases the strength of a person’s heart and boosts their lung capacity. Anaerobic exercise is an intense but short amount of exercise (Payment). Since it is only for a brief amount of time, it does not require the amount of oxygen aerobic exercise does. Instead it uses glycogen which comes from the sugar in a person’s blood. An example of this exercise is weight lifting or sprinting. A person’s requires both anaerobic and aerobic exercise for good health. Simply doing a cardio work out is not healthy, and for a person to see real results there must be some activity like weight lifting (“Anaerobic”).

Psychological stress is a result of many factors and should be dealt with very carefully. Stress can be defined as “An excess of demand made upon the adaptive capabilities of the mind and body”.(Joseph 1). Another way of putting it, is that there are some things that put certain demands on us. The effects of stress should not be limited to unpleasant emotional states. Many studies have concluded that the effects on our physical health from stress can be extremely detrimental. These adverse physical effects include heart disease and formations of cancer. There are also some societal issues that psychological stress can hamper.

Stress is something that affects many people each and every day. Life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations, and demands. For some people stress is so common it is a way of life. Stress can be very harmful and or helpful. It could help motivate you to meet a deadline and perform a task under pressure. Stress can also be very harmful, such as memory problems, moodiness, aches and pains, and eating more or less.

12.) Ways that men and women differ in how they cope with stress is that men are more likely to fight or leave, while women seek social support. Men will become focused, while women tend to become emotional and overwhelmed.

Zajacova et al. (2005) state that stress refers to the non-specific response of the body, to anything that makes a person feels threatened or upset. Stress prepares the body to meet situations which are tough with focus, stamina and strength. It can be caused by positive or bad experiences. Stress is provoked by events called stressors. There are two kinds of stress. Negative stress (distress) and positive stress (eustress). Eustress affects our activities in a positive way (Striker et al., 1999). It is a short-term stress which increases the body's strength immediately. Positive stress affects us during periods of physical activity, excitement or creativity. It motivates and inspires a person to finish a certain task and also helps one think critically towards an assignment (Spector, 2002). Negative stress is the most popular type of stress. It arises when the normal routine of the body is altered. It causes negative effects such as anxiety, depression, fatigue and unhappiness. When a person is distressed, the body becomes unable to return to a relaxed state even when the stressors are absent.