How stress affects your body

It's one thing to be ill due to causes that do not depend on or are very difficult to control from us. For example, a bad heredity, work in hazardous work or a trip to the country with a complex epidemiological situation again at work. It's quite another thing to cut your life due to the fact that we are unable to control their emotions. So, I represent to your attention a whole bunch of problems that we have as a gift from stress.

Health problems

• Chronic fatigue
• Headache, attention deficit, anxiety, irritability, anger and panic.
• Grinding of teeth and the tension in the jaw.
• Increased heart rate, stroke, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes type I and II, arrhythmia.
• Digestive disorders, indigestion, abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome.
• Overweight and obesity.
• The decrease in sexual desire.
• Insomnia, emotional problems and behavioral problems, immune system dysfunction, asthma, ulcers, lack of energy, depression, nervousness, paranoia.
• Constant tension in the muscles, fibromyalgia, Complex regional pain syndrome.
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• Alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking, suicide and other problems are not very pleasant.

Facts about stress

Understanding how stress affects your body and the mechanism of its launch, it will help you prevent the problem even before the press brake is no longer possible. The best treatment - is prevention.

№1 fact. Your body still, you get there a lot of stress or just nervous. Negative consequences will be the same in both cases, because the mechanism works the same. Standard response even at low stress - start more than 1 400 different biomechanical processes in our body. If you let these reactions take their course, our body wears out faster, suffer our brains, our energy source dries up and we lose our effectiveness and clarity of thought.

№2 fact. Stress can make smart people do stupid things. Stress causes a reaction that brain researchers call "cortical inhibition." The phenomenon of cortical inhibition explains why smart people do stupid things sometimes.

Stress inhibits the work of some parts of the brain, and you are just clueless at this point. When we are in a consistent state, our brain, nervous system and heart are working in harmony.

№3 fact. People are trying to drown out the feeling of stress. We can experience stress physiologically, but psychologically we do not notice it, simply because accustomed to this state.

Some people have become so accustomed to the daily anxiety, anxiety disorders, etc., for them it was a natural state. Stress can build up for months in our body in small portions and go unnoticed as long as we do not We are making a serious mistake at work, breaks down emotionally or learn about health problems in the office of his doctor.

№4 fact. We can control our reaction to stress. We do not have to be a victim of your emotions, thoughts, and relationships. We can control our reaction to stress, and can become more sensitive to stress situations and how they affect us before felt the physiological and emotional effects.

There are simple and scientifically sound methods of work stress, which allow people to control their reaction to it.

№5 fact. The best strategy - to catch stress early on and stop it. The best way to manage stress - it is to catch yourself at the outset. Most people prefer to wait until the end of the day, then to how to relax and get rid of this unpleasant feeling. Being in a state of stress all day, they believe that the evening yoga, going to the gym after work or relax over a beer with your friends and save them completely cleanse.

But, unfortunately, their expectations are not true, because if we do not catch the point at the beginning and allow ourselves to remain under stress, our body begins to react immediately to him, running all 1400 reactions. And because the process is started, the output we get emotional and physiological problems.