Definition of Stress
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What is Stress?
Our response to events that disrupt or threaten to disrupt our physical or psychological functioning.
Stress is good sometimes, A little bit stress can motivate us to do our work.
Symptoms like;- trouble sleeping, feeling overwhelmed, problems with memory and concentrating, frustration, changes in eating habits, nervousness, deficiency of consistency in personal and professional life.
It used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.
Causes Of Stress
Stressors:- Events that cause a stress reaction.
Hassles:- The daily annoyances of everyday life.
Catastrophe:- An unpredictable, large scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat.
Distress;- The effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors. Example:- death of close one, failure etc.
Eustress;- Effect of positive events/ optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well being. Example:- wedding, special day, interview, outing etc.
Stress is a hormonal response from the body, hypothalamus sends signals throughout our nervous system to kidney and it release stress hormones (cortisol)
Effects of stress:-
Body:- headache, frequent infection, taunt muscles, muscular twitch, fatigue, breathlessness.
Brain:- Worrying thinking, nightmares, negativity and indecisions.
Emotions:- Loss of confidence, more fussy, depression and irritability.
Behaviour:- Loss of appetite, loss of sex drive, restlessness, drinking and smoking more.
Characteristics of stress:- The severity of the Stressor, it’s Chronicity (how long it lasts), it’s timing, how closely it affects our own lives, how expected it is, how controllable it is.
Events that are unpredictable and unanticipated (for which no previous coping strategies developed) place a person under severe stress.
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