Stress is a phenomenon we are all familiar with. What is stress, which is with us at all times in daily life and whose name we keep talking about?
Stress is a phenomenon that occurs as a result of a person's inability to cope with any physical or emotional situation, and has a tiring and damaging effect. If a person feels threatened in some way, the body goes into alarm. What does it mean to be on alert? The nervous system secretes stress hormones to alert the body to threats. This hormone activates an interconnected system. It accelerates blood flow, then the heart rate increases, then the muscles tighten. And stress brings the body to the desired state.
Stress is useful when it activates the body at a certain level and acts as a driving force. However, if stress has affected your entire life and your body reacts to small events even in daily life as if death is imminent, it means you have a chronic stress problem. In this case, your body will become a target for various diseases.
So, for which diseases does stress prepare the ground?
In fact, the basis of most diseases arises from a stressful lifestyle. Stress plays an important role in the development of many diseases, from depression to eczema, from heart diseases to digestive system problems. Even negative situations such as insomnia, outbursts of anger, and insecurity occur due to intense stress. If you can observe yourself when your stress level is high, you may notice that you are experiencing problems such as grinding your teeth, having strange dreams, weight loss and forgetfulness.
If we look at the situations that cause stress, we may need to create a long list. The causes of stress may differ from person to person. Reasons such as a problem you are experiencing at work or in your relationship, an exam you are about to take, an interview or a job interview, or having an all-or-nothing mindset are feeders for stress.
There are 3 types of stress:
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Acute stress: It is the most common type of stress that many of us experience in daily life. It is the stress that current events cause the person and that is easily coped with.
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Episodic Acute Stress: It is the type of stress in which the person is constantly stressed and anxious. I We can include people who cannot complete their work and take on more responsibility into this group. These people tend to become angry due to intense stress.
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Chronic Stress: It occurs in situations that are difficult or impossible to solve. The majority of people who experience this type of stress are those who experienced trauma in childhood. This type of stress is quite exhausting. Individuals who have had this type of stress for many years ignore the problems and make the body susceptible to stress-related diseases. Problems such as cancer, heart attack and stroke are likely to occur. A specialist should be consulted for treatment.
Your body asks you for help through illnesses. What needs to be done in such a situation is to learn to cope with stress.
So how to deal with stress?
You can start by identifying the situations that cause stress. Evaluate the situation, event or person that causes the stress you experience. Try to prevent the cause of the stress, if you cannot prevent it, try to change it, if this is not the case, then try to adapt. Let's go through an example. We have dozens of reasons for stress when we are at work. Let this reason be our boss. You can radically solve stress by changing your job, but for most people, this may not even be an option. Then, contact someone else you can talk to instead of the boss. If this option is not available, try to accept and adapt to the boss when communicating with him. So if you can't change the other person, change yourself and the thoughts in your mind. Maybe you can't create a stress-free living space for yourself, but at least you can control the stress level. In situations where stress increases, calming the body with breathing exercises will give you time to deal with the problem.
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