Stress, depression, and anxiety - these three words have become the daily companions of many of us. Again, many people are not able to get rid of it. There is nothing new about stress. Stress is the stress on our body and mind.
As a result, various everyday events or situations, such as a complex problem, challenge, overwork, expectations, etc. That is, physical or mental stress is stress. Family, social, or professional stress causes an unstable situation in our daily life, which later becomes the cause of physical and mental illness. Prolonged stress can bring you terribly at all kinds of physical and mental problems.
Stress: It's not always bad. Starting a new job or getting married can be a matter of happiness. But they can really create stress. There are some types of stress that just don’t seem to go away. It’s like feeling like you’re drowning in Orc but still constantly worried about the end. If you work with a lot of stress every day, month, or year, the stress just doesn't feel terrible. It actually causes you physical harm. Psychologists call any event or situation that puts pressure or threat on you. Your well-being is emotional stress, on the other hand, stress refers to your emotional and physical reactions.
Stressors that are one and the same can cause intense stress in your car, such as locking your keys or forgetting your wallet. But when the pressures are repeated or uninterrupted, it is chronic stress. Issues such as brutal relationships, living in poverty, and discriminatory behavior have been shown to be chronic stressors. And this psychological torment is physically damaging.
The bad side of stress
When you experience intense stress, your body activates a system called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis or simply the HPA axis. Because why don't you tell the ant all the other things over and over again. It starts deep in your brain, in the limbic system. The limbic system is responsible for your lot of automated sensory responses, among other things.
There is a region called the hypothalamus. Which releases hormones that start a whole chain of more hormone secretions. First by your pituitary gland and then by your adrenal glands, which release a bunch of adrenaline cortisol into your bloodstream. And these two hormones trigger the "fight-and-fly" response. These stimulate physical activity by increasing your blood sugar and blood flow to your muscles and at the same time consolidating your metabolism.
The idea is that physical exertion can help you fight or escape stress. So, like this, if you are suddenly confronted with a bear, the superiority of energy will help you overcome it, or go just like Revenant.
The same system is activated by chronic stress but things get a bit complicated. Researchers have found that people with certain types of chronic stress are consistently at a high court level as if their HPA axis is constantly running. For others, it depends on the time period when higher Cortisol levels fall below normal near the onset of stress. But we know that this stress reaction can be helpful from time to time, always running it is a problem. People with chronic stress are at higher risk for all types of illnesses, such as heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and mental disorders such as anxiety and depression. Because it is, in addition to always being very unpleasant to stress, the stress response is constantly depleting your energy. The resources used in the flight-flight have to come from somewhere and one of the places where they come from is your defense system.
At the molecular level, the same cortisol that works to get extra glucose into your muscles prevents your body from making the infection-fighting blood cells it normally does. Thus stress can pull off the ability to fight infection. It’s a kind of evolution like telling your body not to worry about this cold fight right now because you need to fight that bear in front of you. Bears are not bears except for chronic stress. This is your miserly work. Or your unhappy relationship. Or is it anyway that puts you under pressure all the time. And that means your immune system never gets a chance to recover and generally cope with the cold as easily as possible.
This is a famous test of volunteers to biopsy the faces of 11 of the 11 dental students involved: first during the summer vacations and then again during the test week. Wounds took an average of about 3 days to heal when they insisted on testing. Other types of studies have had similar results by exposing children to dental implants, and others have observed how stress affects recovery from surgery and other large lesions.
Excessive levels of cortisol can shrink the size of the brain. According to The Guardian, the University of Wisconsin researcher Fred Helmstadter conducted a study on rats. In the laboratory, some rats are kept in a closed place without food and water for six hours daily for 21 days. After 21 days, the hippocampus of their brain was found to have shrunk by three percent.
Excessive release of cortisol reduces synaptic communication between neurons in the brain. The pre-frontal cortex may also contract. The pre-frontal cortex helps in attention, decision making, erroneous judgment, social communication. And because of the contraction, you may lose control over these tasks. In addition, small amounts of neuron cells may form in the hippocampus. As a result, learning something new will become more difficult, not remembering old things. And after all, chronic stress will lead you to all serious mental illnesses like depression or Alzheimer's.
The study further states that chronic stress explains part of the relationship between poverty and health. Even the feeling of being in a lower socio-economic class is related to the increase in respiratory infections. Stress can also advance the aging process. As you get older, your DNA has to be replicated so many times that the protective parts at each end of the chromosome, called telomeres, can start a kind of fight. When telomeres are small, there may be errors in gene copying. And these errors increase your risk of disease. There is evidence that the repair of telomeres is hampered by having more cortisol in your blood. This may explain that stress is associated with age-related diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and anemia.
How to reduce stress
Stress is out of your control. So even if you don't want to, stress can come. From the very beginning of human birth, stress is like a shadow. But you need to know how to deal with stress. The two easiest ways to get rid of stress are exercise and yoga or meditation. Because both are related to deep breathing, which will make you more attentive and more aware of the world around you. But it all depends on how you adapt to the environment. It is not difficult to deal with the damage that excessive cortisol does to you unless you prepare yourself that way. Exercise, no matter how complex the problem, deal with it gently.
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