Emotionally stress can cause people to feel – • tense, uptight and angry • depressed, anxious, tearful, worthless • unable to cope, concentrate or make decisions • tired and stretched to the limit • uninterested in anything • can bring on asthma attacks. Physical stress can cause people to feel – • tension in the muscles • headaches • high blood pressure, heart attack, stoke • ulcers • increases in infections such as colds and cold sores. Outcome 9.2 If I’m put under pressure to get something done I can sometimes work better and produce a better quality of work. However, it is a fine line between a healthy stress and then feeling like I can’t cope. When I get stressed due to lack of sleep or I have had a very long day I can find myself feeling tense with a pounding head ache.
It is then repeatedly used but often has a damaging effect on the person. This can be identified as being deliberate or intentional behaviour that has a clear, definite or probably negative effect. People are more likely to have a self-defeating or destructive manner when either there are threats made to their egos or when they have low self-esteem. When people have low self-esteem they are more likely to be susceptible to having depression, anxiety and emotional distress, which are problems that are usually directly related to low self-appraisal. There are many examples of self-defeating behaviours like, being needy, guilty, envious, angry, obsessive, rebellious, addictions, eating disorders, procrastination, controlling, gossiping, self-doubt and depression.
There are many kinds of mental illness:- • Mood disorders This can be marked by changes in mood, either elation or depression. Depression and bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) are both highly treatable, medical illnesses. Unfortunately, many people don't get the help they need because of the misunderstanding surrounding the illnesses or the fear associated with stigma. • Personality disorders Personality disorders are conditions in which an individual differs significantly from an average person, in terms of how they think, perceive, feel or relate to others. • Anxiety disorders Most people feel anxious at some point in their life.
Also, chronic stress, depression and anxiety can cause lack of appetite, high blood pressure, decrease in muscle tissue, decreased bone density, lowered immunity and inflammatory responses in the body and slow would healing. These can cause eating disorders, heart attack or stroke, easily broken bones, and much more body issues. All these are negative effects that increased levels of cortisol can cause to an individual’s mind and body. The increased amount of cortisol in my body has caused me to suffer from anxiety disorder therefore I suffer from lack of appetite, high blood pressure, and it takes my body longer to heal. 2.
There are also other parts of psychology that fall under this topic, like stressors and pressure. A stressor is “a specific condition or event in the environment that challenges or threatens a person” (Coon 438). Pressure is “a stressful condition that occurs when a person must meet urgent external demands or expectations” (Coon 438). Stressors and pressure cause stress in our lives, whether it is meeting a deadline or surviving a plane crash on a deserted island. Problem-focused and emotion-focused coping, along with frustration, also belong to this topic.
People who have PSTD can experience an overwhelming feeling of shame or guilt along with self-destructive behavior (Doug Hewitt, 2009 para3). .These are often presented in the form of angry or violent outbursts. There can be physical symptoms of headaches, weakness and muscle tension; Along with the muscle tension, there can be muscle twitches (2009, para. 3). There can be symptoms of elevated blood pressure, difficulty with breathing, an increased heart rate and chest pain (2009, para.2).
For example a person with a fear of flying phobia would usually also present with anxiety problems and a client with a nail biting habit may do so because they are stressed or anxious or both. As our subconscious is responsible for our survival, it drives our fight or flight response when we think or feel we are being threatened and can in turn drive the body to feel any or all of the above disorders. As we progress we will see how stress, anxiety, phobias and habits are linked to each other and sometimes can present as disorders at the same time. Stress Feelings of stress can come from any situation where we feel frustrated, angry or anxious. Stress is our response to a stressor such as an environmental condition or situation and is the body’s way to react to a challenge.
The drug also alters one's perception of pain, usually resulting in extreme emotional responses. In the long term codeine can permanently affect the way one's nervous system triggers responses from nerves, resulting in a different perception of pain, touch, and temperature. Repeated use of codeine can also cause bleeding within the stomach, kidney damage, constipation, depression, and in some extreme cases hallucinations or seizures. Stopping codeine consumption abruptly causes withdrawal, usually characterized by runny noses, sweating, muscle twitches and pain, and an irregular
I feel that any of these disorders can be either caused by depression or depression can be a symptom of them. With insomnia, people become depressed because they are generally exhausted and find it hard to get up and being so exhausted makes you very emotional and it is very hard. Anorexia is the same, a person can either be depressed because they have been picked on and they become anorexic or the anorexia depresses them because cannot control it. With all of these disorders, nature and nurture have to both be taken in to account to successfully be able to diagnose and treat these disorders. All of these disorders, and more, can be treated with cognitive-behavioral
This can lead to a variety of other stressful mental and behavioural problems. With borderline personality disorder, we may have a severely distorted self-image and feel worthless and fundamentally flawed. anger, impulsiveness and frequent mood swings may push others away, even though we may desire to have loving and lasting relationships. Most psychiatrists and other mental health professionals use the DSM to diagnose mental illnesses. Because some