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Home :: Family Health :: Stress Stress - Stress symptom, treatment, causesStress is anything that disturbs physical and emotional wellbeing. The effects of stress on health provide a clear indication that body and mind can never be considered separately, physical stress (illness, injury, disability) always leads to some emotional distress, and emotional distress inevitably disturbs body function. The degree of disturbance depends on the severity of the stress. Emotions affect our physical health through the autonomic nervous system, which controls everything that happens in our bodies except voluntary movement and conscious thought. The autonomic nervous system has two parts: the sympathetic division, which prepares us to escape from threats (the 'fight or flight' responsel, and the para sympathetic division, which controls things like breathing, circulation and digestion while we get on with other things. In healthy people these two systems work in harmony. Everyone knows the 'fight or flight' reaction: you see a bus bearing down on you, and a rush of adrenalin makes heart and breathing rates quicken, mouth go dry, and muscles tense for action. The skin becomes pale and cold because most of its blood flow has been diverted to muscles, and digestion just about comes to a stand still. All your attention is focused on escaping the danger. As soon as you've dashed to safety, the adrenalin subsides and balance returns, when this reaction is prolonged because the threat (physical or emotional) continues and there is no safe ending in sight, constant excess adrenalin in the blood upsets the balance of the autonomic nervous system and disturbs health. Being under pressure is not necessarily 'bad' stress. Pressure can be stimulating and exciting, motivating us to think clearly and creatively and to achieve things quickly and effectively. If pressure works in this way it is a useful and healthy form of stress. But when pressure that you cannot handle goes on and on, it becomes distress. You become overwhelmed with worries: you can't think clearly oract decisively. you lose confidence and hope, and youfeel sick. This is a type of anxiety that. broadly speaking, is really fear and uncertainty about how thingswill turn out. Anxiety is the commonest stressful emotion. Chronic anxiety keeps you in a state ofmini-fight or night, which can lead to physical symptoms such as palpitations, overbreathing, muscle tension that can cause headaches and aching back and limbs, faulty posture that can cause joint and muscle pain, excessive sweating and digestive problems. You're worried sick, Other stressful emotions such as anger, grief, depression, disappointment and resentment can disturb health in similar ways, prolonged stress can have other harmful physical effects. . Blood pressure and blood fats rise. The immune system is suppressed, increasing risk of infection and other physical illness. Many physical illnesses are aggravated. Highly stressed people are more likely to have accidents. The causes of StressThe common The causes of Stress :
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