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Psychological Effects Of Stress | How Stress Affects Your Health

Psychological Effects Of Stress | How Stress Affects Your Health

Stress, one of the most common words one has heard of and experience in day to day life. But what actually stress is, where does it come from?

Is it healthy, is it not? If not how to cope up with it, what all can be done.




Actually, stress is required for us to have a push, as fuel, to complete our work, commitments, duties. But the problem arises when we become overloaded with it and are unable to cope up with it. In long run, it adversely affects us physically, emotionally and mentally.

It affects our physical health in a number of ways as we see in day to day life that how new problems are arising, so many psychosomatic diseases happening nowadays. This word is comprised of two words, psycho-soma. Soma represents physical factors and psycho represents emotional and mental factors which is nothing but stress and particularly these problems are 90-95% psycho in nature and 5-10%  physical in nature. Meaning, these diseases are caused due to stress and very less due to some physical factors. Emotionally and mentally we may feel frustrated, short-tempered, irritated, angry, negativity in thinking and feeling.


Let me give you an example. When a person is in fight or flight mode, his/her adrenaline gets secreted to give extra energy to run or fight.

Now if a person is running or fighting, this extra energy get used in that process, but what is happening now is, say we hear something which makes us panic, and we come into fight/flight mode but we are not doing anything physically, we are just sitting and thinking over and over again and keep panicking, keep going this way, so this extra energy keeps getting secreting in body un-used.



There are many instances in day to day life, at home, at work or anywhere else.

Our thinking and feeling affect us, yes this is true, you have read it right. When we are happy, our body responds in a different way when we are fearful, we react in a different way. Our heart beats get changed, our breathing patterns gets changed.

One very small homework for you, observe your breathing when you are relaxed and when you are not.

Also, we are not doing anything to clean this emotional and mental garbage and unwanted baggage that we are carrying with us which is affecting us all the time. 

So yes, it does affect us and that too to a great extent.
In the upcoming post, there will be a discussion on what all can be done to cope up with it.

Cheers,
Thanks for your time.
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