Stress is something all people experience from time to time. Anything that poses a threat or challenge to ones’ well-being is stress. It can affect you mentally and physically. Stress can be beneficial or atrocious to ones’ health. Stress can emerge in many different forms from school, work, and divorce. Stress can also make a person feel frustrated, angry, sad, nervous, anxious and even hopeless at times. Stress is the way the body responds to a threat or challenge. This response is known as fight or flight response telling the body to either to fight or get away from immediate danger. Fight or flight response is based on the sympathetic nervous system responding. The body produces larger quantities of chemicals cortisol, adrenaline and other chemicals, which activates a higher heart rate, sweating, and alertness. Non-essential body functions such as the digestive system are stagnant.
In addition, the body’s energy is concentrated on breathing, blood flow, alertness and muscle use. There are three kinds of stress acute, episodic, and chronic. Acute stress is the most common of the three. It comes from demands and pressures of the recent past and anticipated demands and pressures of the near future. Episodic stress comes when a person makes unreasonable or unrealistic demands. These demands get clustered together resulting in stress because of not being able to accomplish all of the goals. Chronic stress is brought about by long time exposure from unhappy marriage, poverty, or a traumatic experience.
Stress can affect you emotionally, such as worrying about family or physically; fear of something or someone. There are four different types of ways stress can be caused. It can be caused by survival instinct, internal, environmental and fatigue as well as overwork stress. Survival instinct is when you think someone or something is out to harm the individual and the