The condition of a stress is perceived by most of people as unambiguously negative. However experts are not so categorical in the estimates. They define a stress as the natural, natural and quite expected reaction to the various external irritants causing violations in the psychoemotional sphere. Now quite often refer economic instability in the world to the causes of a stress, an unstable financial position of people which generates uneasiness and concern for own future. And as it is impossible to avoid similar problems, influence of a stress on human health becomes constant. What it can lead to, it is useful to know to each modern person.
Influence of a stress on a human body at the physiological level
Usually people diagnose for themselves a stress on unpleasant feelings of psychoemotional property, but not less brightly it affects work of internal systems of an organism. Therefore, noting influence of a stress on health, physiological factors also should be considered. The basic in this plan are such processes as:
- automatic increase in level of sugar in blood – glucose is necessary as a source of power which is in turn necessary for activization of protective forces of an organism; therefore constant stresses can lead to diabetes;
- sharp reduction of a thymus – it is a part of the immune system of the person and is responsible for development of leukocytes; at frequent uncontrollable reduction of this body the leukocytes are not developed that reduces the level of natural protection of an organism;
- involuntarily muscles strain – if it occurs regularly and does not alternate with the long periods of relaxation, then can lead to destruction of muscle cells and fabrics of which internals consist;
- diameter of capillaries increases, there is their expansion, at a severe stress they can burst, causing appearance of hematomas, blue discoloration and unnatural pallor of integuments, violation of blood supply of fabrics and bodies;
- deceptive processes in cages are broken, and they begin to produce toxins which are not removed in the natural way in large numbers, and collect, poisoning an organism.
Influence of a stress on psychosomatic human health
Not less pernicious the stressful state appears also at the level of psychosomatics. Negative influence of a stress in this case is shown as follows:
- attacks of aggression, anger, irritability;
- differences of mood;
- breakdown, loss of interest in life;
- sleep disorder;
- loss of self-confidence, morbid depression, neurosises;
- ultimate headaches;
- violation of a warm rhythm, exacerbation of chronic diseases;
- failures in the hormonal sphere;
- decrease in working capacity;
- increase in risk of emergence of oncology against the background of constantly oppressed emotional state.
Whether there is useful an influence of a stress on a condition of the person?
Positive influence of a stress on an organism seems to many people an impossible invention. And experts speak about it seriously. Give the following as arguments:
- production of adrenaline increases and there is an emotional shake-up that can rouse the person to the active, productive actions directed to elimination of the cause of a stress;
- desire to get rid of an unpleasant emotional state can push to adjustment of more close relations with people around which the person asks for the help and support;
- if the person manages to overcome successfully a stress, then it will help to raise to it a self-assessment and to gain self-confidence.
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