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How does stress affect health and your body?Signs & Symptoms of Too Much Stress
How does stress affect health, your body and overall wellbeing? With short term stress you might get a headache or migraine, feel tightness in your shoulders, feel nauseous or dizzy, have difficult concentrating on simple tasks, feel irritable and moody. These are all signs and symptoms of stress. Long term stress affects your body with illness or disease. How does stress affect the body? Your immunity is low during prolonged stress and you might suffer from colds, flus, get high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cancers, etc, etc. There are many side effects of stress. A tension or stress headache is a stress symptom that can feel like a band of pressured pain wrapped around your head. Tension headaches are the result of pressure from stressors. Stress Related Hair Loss. Stress and hair loss. Yes, its true that stressors can cause hair loss. Chronic, prolonged or excessive emotional and physical stress can cause two types of hair loss: Telogen effluvium & Alopecia areata. STRESS AND YOUR HEART: How does stress affect health and your heart? There is a strong association between stress and cardiovascular disease. Acute stress is associated with increased blood pressure, does chronic stress lead to cardiovascular disease? Chronic stress may lead to cardiovascular disease as its prolonged activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Stress Dangerously Raises Cholesterol Levels Your busy stress filled lifestyle could be raising your cholesterol levels. During stressful times your body prepares for 'fight-or-flight' and chemical messengers are released that can raise your total cholesterol.
STRESS INDUCED HIVES OR RASH: There is a strong link between stress and skin problems. The body’s natural reaction to stress may cause stress induced hives or a stress rash. How does stress affect health? Stress is a natural reaction of the body and is necessary for survival and to motivate us into action. Chronic, prolonged stress suppresses our immunity and makes us vulnerable to illness and disease.
How does stress affect the nervous system? When we perceive something is threatening our wellbeing our bodies go into a "fight-or-flight" response to protect itself. This threat could be to our mental, physical, emotional or spiritual well-being. How does stress affect health: Prolonged stress has a detrimental affect on a person's wellbeing and their lifestyle. As I'm sure you are aware that it is difficult to be productive when you are exhausted. Every tasks seems a struggle.
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How does stress affect the immune system? 
Stress runs our bodies down and makes it vulnerable to illnesses. How does stress affect health? Many physical illnesses are related to stress. Chronic, prolonged stress suppresses our immunity and makes us vulnerable to illness and disease. Prolonged stress is a threat to our immune system. Our immune system is the defence (army, navy, or guardian angel) for our body, to protect it against infections, diseases and allergies. How does stress affect health? Stress affects everyone differently. Its important to be aware of how stress affects health and the body..... start implementing appropriate stress management techniques to reduce its affects.
How does stress affect pregnancy? Severe emotional stress during pregnancy may have detrimental affects. If the mother experiences extreme anxiety and stress the baby is at risk in developing many different types of difficulties. Chronic anxiety is related to an elevated rate of miscarriage, low birth weight, prematurity, infant respiratory sickness, digestive problems and possible physical defects such as a cleft palate or lip.
Did you know that there is GOOD STRESS and BAD STRESS? Good stress is called EUSTRESS and is related to a situation or event that is enjoyable and not considered a threat. You would experience Eustress in a situation that you find motivating or inspiring. For example, if you met Orlando Bloom at the shopping centre you may experience Eustress. (Assuming, of course, you admire Orlando). The BAD stress is called DISTRESS. This type of stress affects the body and your health. There are two types of distress (called 'stress' for short)...these are: Acute Stress and Chronic Stress. Acute stress comes and goes quickly and is intense such as hearing a fire engine siren behind you while driving. As the vehicle passes you by your body is able to relax knowing there is no continuing threat. Chronic stress continues for long periods of time such as going through a court process or working in a job you hate with people who you don't get along with. Chronic stress has detrimental effects on your body. How does stress affect health? How does stress affect the body? It decreases your body's defense mechanisms increasing the chance of disease and illness, and even heart problems or cancer.
A balanced lifestyle of good stress and bad stress keep us motivated, but not run down. A good way to keep in balance is to do a meditation every day.
Unfortunately, stress is an inevitable part of living in today's modern world. Its important to gain knowledge of stress symptoms and their affect on our health and wellbeing so that we can learn to implement appropriate stress management techniques.
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