Stress Management
What Is Stress?
Stress is an emotionally disruptive or upsetting
condition of mind which occurs in response to adverse external
influences. Stress raises the level of adrenaline (a hormone & a
neurotransmitter) and corticosterone (a 21 carbon steroid hormone) in
the body, which leads to increase in the heart rate, respiration, and
blood pressure and puts more physical stress on bodily organs. When some
thing pleasant or unpleasant happens around you, which puts you in a
state of strain or pressure, it is called stress.
Various other concepts which are linked to the word stress are:
Anxiety
Depression
Exhaustion
Frustration
Despair
Overwork
Over-focusing
Confusion
The nature of stress is broadly of two types-
Eustress (Positive stress)
Distress (Negative stress)
Both may not necessarily occur due to positive
and negative events compulsorily. The reason being, the distinction
between good or bad depends upon the perception of an individual.
The various types of stress can also be further
categorized.Stress functions at three stages namely:
Alarm stage
Resistance stage
Exhaustion stage
The level at which you are defines
the further coarse of action. Stress can directly or indirectly lead to
development of physiological or psychological disorders. Long-term
stress can play as a contributing factor in heart disease, high blood
pressure, stroke, enlargement of the adrenal glands and other illnesses.
To know stress better we first need to identify the stressors.
They are both external and internal. The identification is necessary to
decide the kind of treatment required by one.
Stress management
treatments are available in the form of various medications, therapies
and techniques. All you need to do is explore, so go ahead!