Fight-or-flight response

As an adult, we will face uncountable instances of stress or frustration. While certain amounts of stress are considered normal, excessive stressful situations can take a toll on our overall health. Extensive research has been done to show the detrimental effects that stress can have on the body. It can affect sleep habits, the digestive system, heart rate, blood pressure, and can even exacerbate preexisting health problems. Numerous medical and psychological research studies show significant…

The issue with PTSD is that, as certain conditioned responses are extinguished, some responses do not go through the extinction process—depending on the severity of the traumatic event—and cause victims to re-experience the trauma mentally for a prolonged time. As memory can be recalled through many contexts, the extinction…

of stress came about, and with stress came the different ways to relieve it. Everyone knows what stress is, but nobody really knows what stress is. Stress was first introduced by Hans Seyle in 1936 and Seyle described stress as “the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change.” In Seyle’s experiments, he put animals under acute stress and found that they all developed the same problems such as stomach ulcerations, shrinkage…

John Doe was sentenced to a minimum of three, maximum of twenty years in prison after being convicted of armed robbery. He was sent to Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Michigan at the age of seventeen. After spending a relatively uneventful first week in jail, John was moved to a new cell. His new cellmate had served one year out of his minimum eight. “One night after the last count before bed, . . . his cellmate suddenly attacked him, pulling down both of their pants and wrestling…

the grocery store was one of them. No "comfort foods", just salad, water, and healthy meals. By the fifth day, I felt my depression was a thing of the past. Whenever I feel my mood begin to change I immediately write a list and begin my routine to fight the feelings of depression. Since I started this, I have been able to schedule interviews to get back into the working world. My cure for depression may not work for everyone who finds themselves in a blue mood, but it may be…

Guillain Barre Syndrome Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune disease affects the peripheral nervous system. The defining symptom of this syndrome is the body is attacking itself. GBS does affect both males and female of any age but most common seem to be between the ages 30 to 50 years old. A variety of symptoms can occur depending on the severity of the disease. Since this is a very aggressive disease, early and quick diagnosing is essential to the recovery of the patient. Physicians…

watching, and understanding, especially if other people are depending and relying on the information you have to share. i) practice reflection: learn to look at the world as a mirror of yourself. What are the people around you showing you? Watch your responses. Get to know how you really feel about things, people…

harmful behaviour towards oneself encouraged, it could be argued that the human psyche is left to its own decision making process the 'fight or flight ' response that would be…

In the United States, a common mental health problem is known as a general anxiety disorder – which classifies as a mood disorder. Anxiety disorder involves a combination of biological and psychological processes in response to the stimulus in the environment. When anxiety begins to interfere with your regular day to day activities, making it impossible to function normally then it becomes a disorder. Anxiety is clinically confirmed as a diagnosis know as – Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). In…

The idea of emotions influencing gastric motor function has been around for over a century (Taché et al., 2001). It was not until 1934, that scientists created an index for defecation scores in relation to emotions in rats (Taché et al., 2001). However, it has not been until recently, within the past two decades, that the topic of the gut microbiota communicating with the brain and various organs has emerged to the forefront of science (Tache et al, 2001; Mayer et al., 2014). Studies have shown…