Acute Stress Research Paper

What is your stressor? Is your stress, emotional, physical or and mental? There are Thousands of people that are affect by stress in many ways. Stressors cause stress which can be real or imagined. Stress that affect a person's in a short term known as acute or Episodic Acute were a person's suffer acute stress frequently , there is also where a person's can be affected in a long term period which is chronic stress. Although stress is not good or bad there are two times of stress one is known as Eustress stress which is a positive stress and the other is Distress stress which is negative stress. Where does this stress emerge from? Studies have shown that stress has the ability to prevent millions from reaching their respective goals due to negative effects on performance, cognitive (Functions), and health.
Decade’s shows people who have high levels of stress lowers the functioning of memory and gradually diminish when a person's gets older. Stress is a contributing factor to the development of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Stress also affects the heart, unhealthy levels of stress for long periods of feeling negative emotions would have the …show more content…
Long term psychological stress may harmfully impact health, and has been quoted as a cause in cognitive impairment with aging, gloomy illness, and mental sickness. “Although the field is fairly new, many studies have been created to examine the influence of Neuroimmune systems on the psychological consequences of stress (Mills).” A survey that was conducted on 145 random college students, to gather stress information on the student’s health habits, health status, and self-esteem. The results revealed that the females that were not involved in school activities were stressed, and students that were stress also had unhealthy habits. This study showed that students under stress are prone to have unhealthy habits (e.g. eating unhealthy foods) which can cause health issues