stress
4/19/2010
Stress is the ‘wear and tear’ our bodies experience as we adjust to our continual changing environment; it has physical and emotional effects on us and it can create negative feelings. As a positive influence, stress can help compel us to action; result in a new awareness and an exciting new perspective. As a negative influence stress can result in feeling of distrust, rejection anger, and depression, which in turn can cause health problems such as headaches, upset stomach, rashes, insomnia, ulcers, high blood pressure, heart disease, and strokes, also hormonal changes. The long term effects of stress on one’s health are quite significant. The American academy of family physicians has said that two thirds of visits to family doctors are stress related. Stress is more than just a nuisance or something that occasionally makes people feel nervous or anxious. Very stressful events have been associated with a dramatically increased risk of heart attack. Chronic, ongoing stress, even when it is not so dramatic, can affect one’s health in very significant ways. One common example of this is the effect of a very stressful job. Stress, however, is not always bad. Some stress is actually beneficial. Stress helps people when they need to grow, attain warning signs of increasing stress before they reach their limits, they can cope intelligenently with their stress before their resources are all spent. A large population of people suffering from high stress is difficult goals and performs their best. Some degree of stress enhances performance. Everyone’s tolerance for stress is different, and individuals handle various types differently. It is important to recognize and respect ones limits. When one cannot eliminate excessive stress, the best way to manage it is to learn to maintain a balance even during a stressful event. People have learnt to recognize that college students. In a study by Whiteman {1998} stress is defined as any situation that
Stress is the ‘wear and tear’ our bodies experience as we adjust to our continual changing environment; it has physical and emotional effects on us and it can create negative feelings. As a positive influence, stress can help compel us to action; result in a new awareness and an exciting new perspective. As a negative influence stress can result in feeling of distrust, rejection anger, and depression, which in turn can cause health problems such as headaches, upset stomach, rashes, insomnia, ulcers, high blood pressure, heart disease, and strokes, also hormonal changes. The long term effects of stress on one’s health are quite significant. The American academy of family physicians has said that two thirds of visits to family doctors are stress related. Stress is more than just a nuisance or something that occasionally makes people feel nervous or anxious. Very stressful events have been associated with a dramatically increased risk of heart attack. Chronic, ongoing stress, even when it is not so dramatic, can affect one’s health in very significant ways. One common example of this is the effect of a very stressful job. Stress, however, is not always bad. Some stress is actually beneficial. Stress helps people when they need to grow, attain warning signs of increasing stress before they reach their limits, they can cope intelligenently with their stress before their resources are all spent. A large population of people suffering from high stress is difficult goals and performs their best. Some degree of stress enhances performance. Everyone’s tolerance for stress is different, and individuals handle various types differently. It is important to recognize and respect ones limits. When one cannot eliminate excessive stress, the best way to manage it is to learn to maintain a balance even during a stressful event. People have learnt to recognize that college students. In a study by Whiteman {1998} stress is defined as any situation that