Stress Information

threats and the fight or flight response

Normally when the Human being face a threat a self defense mechanism called the fight or flight response is activated that helps him to either run from that situation or either fight what's threatening him. However in our modern world most of the threats cannot be solved by both choices, like for example the threat of the anger of your boss when arriving late to work or the threat of losing your job due to a mistake you did.

the problem with triggering the fight or flight response

The problem with false triggering of this fight and flight response is that your body wasn't built to operate most of the time under that emergency state, because lots of changes take place during the fight or flight response in your body its extremely damaging to be running most of the time at that state, this may lead to countless number of diseases including cancer,heart attacks, strokes and even suicidal behaviour!!.

the different types of stress

There are different types of stress that the person may experience through his life, these types are:

Episodic Acute Stress: Where you get stressed because you are always in a rush like when you have lots of things to do while being short of time. Usually type
A personality suffers from this type of stress
Chronic stress: where the person is stressed due to a problem that doesn't have a solution at the time being or in the near future, like living in poverty or living with someone that you don't love or even living in a country with economic problems like unemployment or inflation. The problem with chronic stress is that sometimes the person get used to it to an extent that he becomes totaly unaware of its presence while at the same time all of harmful effects are still present and affecting him
acute stress: is the normal stress that you face on facing a threat, your fight and flight response is activated, and is deactivated upon the threatening situation ends.

what can cause stress?

Stress can be caused by either internal factors, external factors or both, examples of external factors are:

Noise (If the television beside you is open you can simply turn it off)
Bad lighting (Bad lighting may increase your stress because it makes concentration harder)
Someone asking you something while you are working and stressed
Interruption by any means
Being in an untidy place so finding things could be harder and so this increases the stress

All the previous were external factors but the real cause of the stress is internal. After all, if you were not stressed and you heard some noise outside it's very unlikely that the noise alone can make you stressed. Below are some of the reasons that could initiate stress:

You are a type A personality
You are loaded by work but limited in time
You are being pressured or pushed to complete your work
You have to choose between alternatives and time is short
Your decisions are of a big impact and so must have minimal possibility of error.
You have some problem with no possible solution (chronic stress)

Some people think that smoking can help them reduce their stress and so start to smoke whenever under a stressful condition and although this may help them on the short term (or at least they think so), the long term effect is really harmful.

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Refrences:

http://www.helpguide.org
http://www.apahelpcenter.org