The Cost of Stress
Many people know that stress is the cause for many mental and physical health problems. However, knowing what stress is and what it can specifically cause is very important. Almost everyone has stress in their lives, but people with prolonged stress are at a higher risk for mental and physical diseases and illnesses. Stress can affect your everyday life through your mental health and physical health through disease and many other factors. Stress affects mental health via behavior, cognitive abilities, and emotional health. Stress affects physical health via most, if not all of the body’s systems for example, integumentary, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and nervous systems.
To begin with, defining stress and why it’s important is critical. Stress, according to Bruce McEwen, means any type of pressure or difficulty whether it’s physical or mental. Stress is something that people deal with everyday. Sometimes stress is even auspicious.Stress can help you be successful in some situations. For example, …show more content…
Behavior is affected by stress many different ways. Steven Bressert who wrote “The Impact of Stress” tells us that common signs of stress in behavior include things like, avoiding other people due to crankiness, not setting time aside to do things you enjoy like hobbies, general sense of feeling alone, and not spending time with friends and family. Not only is stress affecting the person who has it, it affects the people around them as well. According to the journal “Stress” by the University of Maryland people who have a good support system of friends and family are more likely to be happy even if they do have a stressful life. So, when people are stressed and they stop interacting with their family’s they are actually making the situations worse for them. When stressed behavior can be altered negatively and it not only effects you, it effect people around
Many people know that stress is the cause for many mental and physical health problems. However, knowing what stress is and what it can specifically cause is very important. Almost everyone has stress in their lives, but people with prolonged stress are at a higher risk for mental and physical diseases and illnesses. Stress can affect your everyday life through your mental health and physical health through disease and many other factors. Stress affects mental health via behavior, cognitive abilities, and emotional health. Stress affects physical health via most, if not all of the body’s systems for example, integumentary, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and nervous systems.
To begin with, defining stress and why it’s important is critical. Stress, according to Bruce McEwen, means any type of pressure or difficulty whether it’s physical or mental. Stress is something that people deal with everyday. Sometimes stress is even auspicious.Stress can help you be successful in some situations. For example, …show more content…
Behavior is affected by stress many different ways. Steven Bressert who wrote “The Impact of Stress” tells us that common signs of stress in behavior include things like, avoiding other people due to crankiness, not setting time aside to do things you enjoy like hobbies, general sense of feeling alone, and not spending time with friends and family. Not only is stress affecting the person who has it, it affects the people around them as well. According to the journal “Stress” by the University of Maryland people who have a good support system of friends and family are more likely to be happy even if they do have a stressful life. So, when people are stressed and they stop interacting with their family’s they are actually making the situations worse for them. When stressed behavior can be altered negatively and it not only effects you, it effect people around