At first, the term stress was employed for the first time during the sixteenth century, almost as we know, and comes from the Greek word string-ere, meaning cause stress.
In fact, is usually handled specifically tension in the throat, so that is associated with the lack of respiratory capacity. Hint for which, now almost all therapies against this disease are based on the teaching of proper breathing.
Stress understood as a harmful factor that affects the emotional, specialists warn that can produce a higher intensity in our work, and therefore can enhance the capabilities and probabilities of success in various aspects. What we know today as distress.
Instead, they warn that also can harm health, relationships, employment and overall performance.
Stress involves complex physical and emotional reaction, which is characterized by three stages:
1. It gives an alarm reaction in response to a stressor that activates the autonomic nervous system.
2. The resistance phase occurs as the body acclimates and adjusts to the stressor.
3. The phase of fatigue: tension persists for a long time and combined with other factors that can lead to disease.
Research has shown that excessive stress is one of the factors contributing to the development of many ailments, both physical and emotional, so it is very clever to happen one somatization, consistent with the lack of adaptive capacity to these changes.
This ability is a normal part of the body preparing for confrontation or escape. For example, pupils are enlarged to improve vision and hearing worsens, the muscles tighten to meet the challenge, the heart and respiratory rates increase so that blood is pumped in more abundant and fast to increase arrival oxygen to the cells, and encourage demand response to danger.
For this, the blood is directed to priority areas, such as heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, large muscles and brain. Non priority functions at that moment as digestion and peripheral circulation are decreased dramatically.
There are many psychosomatic diseases caused by stress or triggered or aggravated by it. However, there is no doubt their action on digestive diseases such as ulcers, diarrhea and constipation, nutritional and metabolic, joint and muscle disorders, sexual and gynecological as well as being an agent trigger mental disorders, which leads to depression.
When acute stress occurs, you get a response that can cause ulcers, stomach bleeding, and cardiovascular problems. While people with high risk factors, can even cause a heart attack.
All these conditions are moving silently, as the sufferer, somatization in different ways and in different areas of the body according to its own characteristics. Many times, without reaching realize are symptoms or stressors. Learn stress management techniques and tips.
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