The effect of stress in each individual
Title: The effect of stress in each individual (on human the body)
"When you get the right amount of stress, we call it stimulation, the goal in life is not to get rid of stress but the goal in life is to get the right type of stress, because when it’s the right type we love it!"(Bredar, 2008). It is widely agreed that the human machine is the most complicated machine to explain. We know very little about its process, and in this modern era no one seems to truly understand how our body system works; researchers have developed their own theories through their experiments, doctors try to understand the body system, while psychologists try to understand the brain. In this paper a part of our system is going to be examined: the stress. Stress's original purpose was to help us survive, but in a vast majority of humans today, it is a wreaking havoc. This experiment illustrates studies done about the said topic. How does stress affect each individual and how do humans cope with it? In simple words, stress is a feeling of strain and pressure. Adaptation to the environment is the key for all living things to survive. According to prominent researchers, stress is defined as "a real or perceived imbalance between environmental demands required for survival and an individual's capacity to adapt to these requirements" (Sherbone, Davis, Marshall &, 1999). "Boss (1987) points out that "In the Tamud and the Bible, we have read that families have been concerned with events of change, trouble, disaster and ambiguity since the beginning of recorded time" (p. 696)." (History and definition). Therefore stress has been a factor of human races since the very beginning. Most of the early studies regarding individual stress are from psychobiology, psychiatry, and anthropology. (See timeline of development of individual stress in Apendix 1) In 1932 Walter Bradford Cannon, an early American physiologist coined the term "fight or flight response" in his study of how animals react
"When you get the right amount of stress, we call it stimulation, the goal in life is not to get rid of stress but the goal in life is to get the right type of stress, because when it’s the right type we love it!"(Bredar, 2008). It is widely agreed that the human machine is the most complicated machine to explain. We know very little about its process, and in this modern era no one seems to truly understand how our body system works; researchers have developed their own theories through their experiments, doctors try to understand the body system, while psychologists try to understand the brain. In this paper a part of our system is going to be examined: the stress. Stress's original purpose was to help us survive, but in a vast majority of humans today, it is a wreaking havoc. This experiment illustrates studies done about the said topic. How does stress affect each individual and how do humans cope with it? In simple words, stress is a feeling of strain and pressure. Adaptation to the environment is the key for all living things to survive. According to prominent researchers, stress is defined as "a real or perceived imbalance between environmental demands required for survival and an individual's capacity to adapt to these requirements" (Sherbone, Davis, Marshall &, 1999). "Boss (1987) points out that "In the Tamud and the Bible, we have read that families have been concerned with events of change, trouble, disaster and ambiguity since the beginning of recorded time" (p. 696)." (History and definition). Therefore stress has been a factor of human races since the very beginning. Most of the early studies regarding individual stress are from psychobiology, psychiatry, and anthropology. (See timeline of development of individual stress in Apendix 1) In 1932 Walter Bradford Cannon, an early American physiologist coined the term "fight or flight response" in his study of how animals react