Continue with the previous topic of stress, today I want to
share about the important content that I have learnt in a YouTube video.
Struggling with high level stress might cause a person significantly to
experience an emotional downturn as he feels annoyed easily. Although people
can ‘turn on’ the body’s natural defence and adapt to different situation to
overcome the slightly tension, but the long-term stress may be psychologically
and physically debilitating.
Unlike daily stress factors that can be
managed through healthy stress management, untreated chronic stress can lead to
severe health conditions, including anxiety, insomnia, muscle pain, high blood
pressure, and weakened immune system. Studies have shown that stress may
contribute to the development of major disease like depression and obesity.
Some studies have even suggested, unhealthy chronic stress management, such as
excessive consumption of “comfort” foods that contribute to the growing obesity
epidemic.
However, despite APA’s stress survey in
the United States, 33 percent of Americans have never encountered a way to deal
with stress with healthcare provider. Chronic stress may happen when someone
exposed to everyday stressors that are neglected or poorly managed and exposed
to traumatic events.
IS STRESS
FOE OR FRIEND?
Either the students or the social group, as a human, we
always confront with stress in our life. The contributors to stress include
money, work, family, responsibilities, health concerns and the economy. Most of
the people think and view stress as an enemy. However, some makes stress to
become their driving force in order to accomplish their targets and goals.
Thus, is stress our foe or friend?
In the past, the community treated the
stress as a disease that makes people sick. A study surveyed individuals'
feelings of stress, their behavior towards stress, and correlated against
public death records. From the study, they found that those who were more stress
and believed that stress is more harm than good are the people most likely to
die. However, people who were encountered with a lot of stress but didn’t
believe it was harmful were the least likely group to die.
A study shows that the
belief of stress is harmful actually causes a person to die but not because of
the stress kills them. By reshaping how we consider about stress, we can retool
our body’s reaction. When we are being under the stress, our heart beats
faster, we breathe faster, and we will sweat more. Basically, Basically, we
would see these as signs that you’re not coping well, but people could also be
taught that your body is get ready for action. At the point when our heart is
pumping for more blood and we breathing more, that is mean we are preparing for
something difficult, and prepared to go up against any challenge.
In addition to this, the harmful part of
stress is a restriction of blood vessels, which is probably lead to
cardiovascular disease. When people learn to see stress as a positive, the
blood vessels do not constrict. The body reaction looks more like it is in the
joy or courage condition. Thus, whenever we feel stress, consider it as our
body is preparing us for the challenge.
Furthermore, stress makes us social.
Oxytocin (the cuddle hormone) is a neural hormone that primes us to strengthen
relationships, and help our friends. In stress situation, our body too released
oxytocin as a response of being stressed to make us want to tell someone we are
struggling. Heart also receives oxytocin to strengthen, heal and protect it
from the effects of stress. As our body release more of this hormone by
being stressed or helping others, we increase our stress sustainability.
Another research looked
at how stressed people were, how much time they had spent helping family,
friends, their community and correlated with public death records. For the
general respondents, the risk of dying has been increased by 30% for each major
stressful crisis. However, people who spent time caring for others had no
increase in risk of death due to stress.
In a nutshell, the
results of stress can be changed by our mindset. How we think and how we
act can transform our experience of stress. When we choose to view
your stress response as helpful, we create the biological
courage. Also, when we choose to connect with others under stress, we
can create resilience. When we are given a choice between a stressful job
and another is less stressful, we should follow the one that gives us the most
meaning, and trust our self to handle the stress that results.
(Source from YouTube-TED Talks)
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