The effects of stress are the outcomes or the consequences of stress. Although not all stress has negative effects on individuals, the many times people get stressed always are accompanied by negative effects. The negative consequences of stress are well pronounced and it is only on a few occasions that stress can be of help. As an example, researchers from Ohio state university found out that stresses arising from a task that engages memory normally activates people’s immune systems. On the other hand, a person who watches a violent movie or video passively weakens his immune system.
Also they found that stresses due to beating datelines and other work challenges in most cases help in making the body’s defense strong, even if they are quite frustrating. When an individual’s body is stressed at a constantly high level, there is an excess production of the hormone cortisol. This hormone that is produced by the adrenals causes harm to the body slowly by slowly and damages the healthy parts as the muscles, and even the bone, as well as slowing down the body’s healing process and furthermore leads to a decline in the rate of body cell replacement. (www. oasisserene.
com/learning/stress) Bad stress, when not well managed, can lead one into many troubles. For instance, stress is known to be one of the major causes of the severe health problems people suffer. Among the health problems that stress is known to be an accelerating factor of are the heart disease, cancer and hypertension. Several other chronic conditions that people suffer like mild headaches and high blood pressure are associated with stress. Besides health problems, stress can change the mood of an individual and may even make an individual not to enjoy certain occasions.
It is a known fact that the leading cause of anxiety disorders is stress. These disorders make one to always feel that he is under pressure, helpless in his situation, and having difficulties in resting, relaxing and even sleeping. It is true that when one is stressed up, everything else within him, or even outside of him, will somehow go wrong. Actually the mind controls every part of the body, and hence when an individual is stressed, it is the mind that is in charge of taking the necessary actions to let the hormones work appropriately.
Davis and Eshelman talk about chronic stress in their book, that persistent stress normally occurs when the causes themselves are persistent. They continue to say that every system in one’s body can easily be destroyed by stress (Davis and Eshelman 3). Stress can as well go to an extent of interfering with one’s ability to live a normal life for some lengthened period of time. This is a dangerous stage in that one always feels out of place and out of control of himself or his surrounding and is left wondering what to do next.
This may accumulate emotional problems arising from any previous event. This can easily make one to have such negative thoughts as those of committing suicide. The longer the time it takes one to get out of a certain stress, the more time the physical reaction system of the person are activated and this, in most cases results in more severe and serious health problems in the long run. Conclusion It is quite important to know that techniques of managing stress are necessary and need to be put into practice in our day-to-day lives.
As earlier mentioned not all the stresses are bad hence we also need to find the most advantageous level of stress that can give us a motivation to always have a positive look of life. Coping with stress all is up to an individual. One manages stress in a different manner successfully which may not work out well for another. The stresses that cannot be completely be dealt with should be managed appropriately by the beholder. One can choose to sing, play a game, visit friends and have a chat, dance walk, stretch and let go, among many other things to relieve stress.
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