Stress comes from any situation in which we feel frustrated, angry or anxious. Anxiety, on the other hand, comes from apprehension or fear. Stress and Anxiety, in a nutshell, stem from our bodies reaction to fear or change. Those who suffer from stress can understand their condition and find resolution in the mediums of therapy or changing certain aspects to their daily lives. Anxiety on the other hand is not something that can be treated easily as there is the potential to have larger psychological or physicals reasons for its manifestation.
Stress also increases the heart rate and can lead to the increase of blood pressure, thus Hypertension and can lead to Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). Although this disease can be caused by the indirect effects. Indirect effects of stress are associated with the bad habits that stress causes us to take part in, these included smoking, poor diet and alcohol abuse. These poor habits can thus lead to ill-effects on one’s health. These issues are more related to chronic stress rather than acute stress and it occurs for a long period, thus affecting health for a longer period.
For a female they will go through menopause while a male's repoductive system occurs more gradually and over a longer period of time. Menopause is caused by a change in the balance of the body's sex hormones and when a female’s ovaries stop releasing eggs and menstrual periods stop. This usually occurs when a women is around the age 50 although it can occur earlier or later. The physical effects of menopause are that as their skin is becoming more elastic their breasts are becoming more elongated and flaccid. Female’s ovaries also stop
What is stressful for one person may be pleasurable or have little effect on them and we all react to stress differently. Human beings were built to handle stress; we adapted the autonomic part of the nervous system to handle acute stressor, such as a physical alteration, job interview or even a tough anatomy test. The body would respond by releasing stress hormones, corticosteroids, these hormones would then give an immediate energy surge to the body. The hormones were meant for only short periods; when the body is under chronic stress these hormones start to cause damage to the body. Forty-three percent of all adults suffer adverse health effects from stress.
Johansson concluded that work stressors, like repetitiveness and high levels of responsibility, create long term physiological arousal leading that stress-related illness and absenteeism. This study backs up Caplan’s findings of high stress jobs leading to stress-related illness. Marmot and Johanssen clearly contradict each other; however, Johansson’s results are more reliable as he took urine samples which contained hormones related to stress, whereas Marmot used a questionnaire, which the candidates could lie on, making the results
The Sexual Response Cycle September 18th, 2011 PSY210 The sexual response cycle is important to understand, as both male and female should learn more about the opposite sex’s cycle. Men and women are very different in several ways; however, their sexual response cycles are very similar. There are four phases to the sexual response cycle, beginning with the excitement phase, then the plateau phase, on to the orgasm phase, and finally ending in the resolution phase. One may experience a sexual dysfunction in his or her life, but no fear there are several common methods of treatment to help resolve the issue. One may find it interesting after reading and understanding the sexual response cycle and how each phase works for both males and females.
There are many theories of what causes stress and techniques that can be employed to try and lessen the effects of stress. This paper will explore the various types of stress, causes and solutions of stress, and the financial and managerial implications stress has within organizations. Stress has become an epidemic that businesses have to cope with daily in order to maintain their employee health and morale. “Occupational stress has been recognized as a major health issue for modern work organizations. Conditions of the workplace have been shown to lead to negative emotional reactions, physical health problems in both the short term and the long term and counterproductive behavior at work” (Spector, 2002).
EFFECTS OF STRESS ON PYSCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEING The effect of stress on today’s population is a point of interest for research psychologists. It is so because of the many results of dealing with this stress, and the effect it has on different members of our culture. From the everyday distress of raising a family or the higher expectations that the current workforce is subjected to, people must learn to cope with this psychologic weight or suffer from various physical and mental maladies that are becoming much more widespread. Research in this area of psychology is not new, but is starting to become a mainstream topic for new studies. Work Related Distress My first research article covers the alarming rise in mental distress suffered at work (Stansfeld et al., 2008 p. 1).
Stress and Life Change Within this essay the term stress will be discussed and how life changes can affect people’s lives causing a person to feel stressed. Seiye (1956) defines stress as “The individual’s physchophysiological response, mediated largely by the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system, to any demands made on the individual.” (Gross 2001) p174 The essay will also cover and explore the evolutionary perspective focusing on how stress affects the sympathetic state and the endocrine system, and how primary and secondary appraisal fits in with this; it will also discuss how divorce, as a major life, change can have both positive and negative outcomes. Stress is something that can be termed differently by each individual, what it may mean to one person, it may mean something different to another, it could be that it is the meaning that an individual attaches to an experience rather that the experience itself, that causes one to feel stressed. Stress can also be a good thing, it can be what drives us to get out of bed each day and carry out daily routines. Lack of stress, termed as ‘distress’ can cause lack of motivation and boredom, which can have a negative effect on life and can lead to many other problems such as alcohol or drug abuse.
stress and its effects on the body This essay will discuss stress and the effect it has on our body, this will include General adaptation syndrome, Autonomic nervous system, and how major life changes cause stress in everyday life. Stress is very difficult to define it is the feeling of being overburdened; under pressure and so anxious that you cannot cope with everything in your life. The outside pressures on you start to interfere with the balance within your body resulting in illness, abnormal behaviour and even death. Factors that cause stress are called stressors for example a relationship breakdown or money problems, many of them are major conflicts or changes but some are everyday activities. The nervous system is different from any of the other systems within the body as it is the monitor of stress.