Cause And Effects Of Stress

Kelly McGonigal discusses the importance of viewing stress as positive, as opposed to negative, by detailing three specific studies and findings about stress. In the first study, it was discovered that people with a significant amount of stress had a higher mortality rate; however, this was only statistically significant if the subject viewed stress as harmful. If the overly-stressed subject didn’t view stress as harmful, they were actually at the lowest risk of dying, even compared to those with a minimal amount. Therefore, it is important to change a person’s perspective of stress. In particular, McGonigal emphasizes that stress is important for a person’s body: it energizes and prepares them to meet whatever challenge they are facing. Furthermore, it helps the blood vessels remain relaxed, thereby allowing the heart to remain healthy.

In conclusion, I agree that stress is a positive thing for us because it can motivate and give energy

According to WebMD (2012), Forty percent of U.S. workers admit to experiencing office stress, and one-quarter say work is the biggest source of stress in their lives.

Webster defines stress as a “state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, etc.” (1). There are a variety of factors that can cause someone to be stressed and stress can affect people in many different ways. “Nearly one-third of Americans are living with extreme stress and nearly half of Americans (48 percent) believe that their stress has increased over the past five years” (APA, 1). While a certain amount of stress is healthy and can increase productivity, it also has many negative physiological effects on people including weight gain, mental health issues, and immune deficiency. Stress is also linked to the leading physical causes of death including heart disease, cancer and stroke (Lazarus, 4, 8). There are many different situations that one might perceive as stressful and an ongoing stressful situation, or chronic stress, can be exaggerated by a poor diet and lack of exercise. Going to work in an unpleasant environment, speaking in public, or the death of a loved one are all examples of different stressors. (McEwen, 171).

Sometimes stress can be helpful and can motivate an individual to work harder[6]. This is called eustress. Contrarily, the type of stress that leads to negative behaviour is distress. It is unhelpful and can cause people to stress more and be unable to cope with the problem[6]. Stress can originate from a number of different sources including major life events such as an illness moving, the workplace, and school. Without the appropriate coping mechanism for stress, these events can lead to adverse health effects[6]. Researchers have found that stress can be linked to a number of illnesses including

Everyone can relate to stress. Stress is someone or something that causes any strong feelings of concern or anxiety. For example, it can be over little things like traffic or big things such as, financial issues. Overall, stress is certainly a part of daily living. We already know the causes to the stress since we spend our own time worrying about it. However, do we know the consequences of stress related to our health?

Stress is any condition that seriously affects the balance of the organism physiologically and psychologically. Stress activates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) releasing glucocorticoid hormones that produce generalized effects on different body systems including the nervous system (McEwen, 2008).

? In the society we all live in people are so stressed, as a matter of fact most people think that stress is a part of ordinary life and those who live a stress free life is different and something is wrong with them. Knowing what I have learned from this assignment that statement is so untrue it should say stress will cause havoc on the human body and the end re4sult will be death prematurely. All the research that I have read tells me that stress causes the stress hormones Corticdropin and Gonadotropin is the reason for many terrible factor happening to the reproductive system. Excessive stress or prolonged stress can cause infertility, suffocate the ovulation process, decrease sexual activity and sperm count. Stress causes lack of a desire

Many health related issues can arise from being stressed out. Often times, stress can be positive, for example, exercise, or activities such as homework or other difficult tasks (Carlson, Eisenstat, and Ziporyn 2004). Although the tension can be stressful, certain tasks are beneficial to the mind or body, which is why it is positive stress. These activities can be stressful to one individual, but relaxing to another (Carlson, Eisenstat, and Ziporyn 2004). Negative stress can be considered as anything that is not good for the body, such as grieving a death, losing a job, divorce, etcetera (Carlson, Eisenstat, and Ziporyn 2004). Both Positive and negative stress can lead to illness. Stress can cause numerous health issues such as obesity, migraines, and heart disease.

Stress has no defined definition and cannot be measured. It varies across each individual. It can be either good stress or bad stress depending on the nature, extent and outcome. It can be a good stress if it is temporary, positive, motivational and helpful for an individual to accomplish more and can be a bad stress if it leads to mood swings and affects body systems. Stress is mostly commonly known as physical, emotional and mental disturbance of a human body. Things that are stressful for one person cannot necessarily be stressful for others.

Stress is something affiliated within the lives of everyone, young or old. Whether it is stress from school, work or at home, stress is a universal thing everyone goes through. Stress can make one feel emotionally and physically drained, which affects how they continue with their day-to-day lives. With all the different causes of factor, how do these causes of stress affect one’s health? Well, many factors come into play regarding causes of stress. It could be due to heavy workloads, unhappiness over work or school, family issues (such as divorce or illnesses), fear of world issues, major life changes and many more. The negative effects that stress has on one’s health include physical, mental and behavioral effects that disrupts one’s lifestyle and makes everyday a struggle for them.

We all experience stressors in our everyday life. Events, or conditions that cause stress. Examples of such stressors can be anything from being stuck for hours in traffic, or to a sudden death of a loved one. Stressors for adults, are often found today at a place of work. Heavy demands and deadlines can pose constant pressure and tension on workers. Not just adults are affected by constant stress, but teenagers and children as well. Today, the percentage of adolescence experiencing stress has increased in the past decade, and in a recent survey by the American Psychological Association, shows that they are just as and even more stressed than adults. Stressors for the younger generations include: Schoolwork, managing social life, and family traumas. Not many individuals, especially adolescents, realize the potential health risks stress can pose towards our health and body. How much of a toll exactly is everyday stress on our health? Well for starters there are two types of common forms of stress, that is acute or short-term stress that is temporary, and chronic or severe stress that is prolonged. Stress affects our health both mentally and physically, severe stress can lead to serious illness and effect the body negatively if not treated, while acute stress is normal and consists of brief periods of stress that are not harmful.

According to a poll, about one in every four Americans (about sixty million people) have claimed to have encountered some stress this past month (Whyte n.p.). Sometimes, the intensity of stress causes anxiety or frustration. Which is why for the most part, stress is taken as a negative impact on an individual. Whether that stress comes from school, money, environment, work or all of them, everyone walks the same path of stress sometimes without even realizing it. Although many people perceive stress in a negative way, there’s some surprising benefits of stress that we are not aware of. It all comes down to the basic element of what stress is.

The human body responds to any external stimulus and its management by the human body by doing that specific task is the psychology of adjustment. Human beings adjust their needs and behaviors with the changes in the environment. Stress is one of the promising disease in the current world and most of the time people dealing with the stress even do not know they are suffering from a disease or psychological disorder. Adjustment is the key to manage the daily life, as most of the people who failed to deal with the adjustment faces severe issues of mental stress, health decline and poor work efficiency. To deal with the adjustment of the psychological needs of the human body most of the people use to do day dreaming methodology to relax.

There is an old saying that stress springs from power, actually it has a lot of adverse effects. Stress causes various reactions to the body, and even studies showed that stress meetings are detrimental to health. When pressure is already too high, the most obvious response is muscle tension, faster heartbeat, higher blood stress, sweating and other symptoms. How stress influences the health of the body is mainly physical, psychological causes and the bad habits caused by people, which would be discussed as follows.