What is Stress
Stress – the strongest nervous shock, caused by reasons or situations wearing a serious traumatic nature. Stress can be a shock caused by the sudden major changes: wars, earthquakes, natural disasters. No less serious and destructive to the psyche is a social stress, the causes of which lie in our environment.
There is a special scale to calculate the numerical equivalent of stress, when calculating the index takes into account the various changes that have occurred in my life lately.
The largest numerical value is stress, resulting in the death of a loved one (spouse), interestingly, finding a spouse (marriage) has the same equivalent of nervous tension – 100 points. Even divorce is associated with a painful division of assets, equivalent to 95 points, while in prison and did not exceed 60.
Naturally, the strength of stress factors has an individual error, each assesses the situation in their own way, is not always a good reason (for example, divorce or death) is about the treatment to a specialist. Usually such cases are not more than half.
Today we can say that our life is a continuous stress, which are common conditions in which we live, that the slightest shock for a man already stressful. Stuck in traffic, late for work – stress, chastised the chief – the stress, the exchange rate has changed in the wrong direction – stress. However, this so-called microfactors, which lead to serious consequences only as a result of significant accumulation. This can occur for years, yet grow into something more serious.
The main symptoms that require intervention therapist or psychiatrist, include:
- Loss of vital interest (anhedonia);
- Depressed mood (not typical for this person);
- Physical discomfort (which has no serious reason);
Sometimes the consequences of stress are insomnia, hallucinations, fantastic visions and voices, speaking from some “top”.
Classify stress due to his calling, allocate:
Post-traumatic stress resulting from accidents, natural disasters, it causes drastic changes in the psyche and persists over time. The impressions obtained from the incident, eventually becoming brighter, they pursue a person, daily life becomes paint, meaning only have pictures from the past.
This stress is manifested in behavior, the person becomes irritable, aggressive, excitable, or vice versa takes into itself, creating “a world of” who does not want to leave, often these people fall into a depression so that die from this.
Psychosocial stress is the result of everyday traumatic events. There were cases when after the death of one spouse dies after a short time, and second, unable to cope with stress and loneliness. Death with no serious physical studies, previously completely healthy person dies suddenly and everything.
Ironically, people who have a strong mentality most susceptible to stress, people with a weak psyche is not so sensitive to changes occurring around him, and more indifferent to psychotrauma.
Stress – weapons of mass destruction, every day hundreds of people die due to stress. Scientists have proved the dependence of cardiac and cancer of the nervous tension which is caused by stressful conditions. Much attention is paid today pharmacological treatment (antidepressants and tranquilizers), and psycho-correction work. First of all, people need to learn how to defuse that by nerve impulses sent to muscles and organs and cause disease. Good effect in combating stress and its effects on yield different relaxation techniques, which include muscle relaxation by Jacobson, performing certain physical exercises can achieve deep physical and mental relaxation.