Chronic stress

You probably already know that blood glucose imbalances and poor gut health can lead to hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s disease, but do you know what part stress plays on your thyroid’s health? Here’s a clue: stress is one the biggest influences on your adrenal glands, and the health of your adrenal glands directly impacts the health of your thyroid gland. What Do the Adrenal Glands Do? You might have heard of the adrenal glands but aren’t exactly sure what they do or even where they’re located.…

Can Stress Cause Death? In this digital age that we live in, life has become so fast paced that there are times that we can't seem to keep up. This is how many people feel and the high level of stress has sometimes taken its toll and has caused lives to deteriorate. Some are intimidated by the word "stress" because they really don't know what it means. All they know is that stress can be linked to some leading causes of death. What Is Stress? Stress is our natural defense mechanism against…

For racial minorities, chronic perceived discrimination is stressful and leads to mental and physical changes (Pascoe & Richman, 2009). Perceived discrimination and experiences with racism change neural emotion circuits, which may contribute to the race gap in achievement (Johns et al., 2008). The mere anticipation of racial discrimination can create a stress response (Sawyer et al., 2012). When discrimination is perceived, the threat response is activated leading to increases in both…

All Pain Occurs in the Brain Pain is the body’s way of warning you about an injury that needs to be taken care of. With chronic pain, pain persists long after the injury has healed. Pain signals keep firing in the nervous system for weeks, months, even years. The experience of pain involves multiple interactive neural pathways that influence pain signals at several levels at once: Pain pathways become stimulated by painful stimuli and, with repeated stimulation, these pathways can become…

Journal Article Critique: Type D personality, stress, and symptoms of burnout: The influence of avoidance coping and social support DeAnne Owens UAB at Birmingham Introduction The objective of this article was to explore certain coping techniques termed as approach coping, avoidance coping, or observations of available social support for their role, if any, in the relationship between the Type D personality and perceived stress. The research also examined whether the distressed, also…

People are affected by stress everyday whether it be school, their job, or family issues at home. Most people know what stress is, but many do not know the story behind it. In 1936 Hans Seyle started first talking about stress and it turned out to be a stressful thing for him, afterwards many different types 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…

As individuals, we all deal with stress, whether it is short term or long term. Long term stress is one that can be dangerous for your health. In this video, you will meet a man named Gwai, who wants to make a better living for his family by moving them out the disadvantaged city for a fresh start. Consequently, the family returned months later due to obstacles that stood in Gwais way. Upon returning, Gwai's oldest son started hanging out with bad people and engaging in bad habits. As a result…

purpose of this essay is to outline the relationship between stress and health status and why this is an important issue in contemporary society. The definition of stress can be interpreted differently as each and every individual holds a subjective opinion to how stress can impact their health status. (Alder, 2004: 126) would state that stress can be “anything from trauma to the experience of working in a noisy room”. In this case, stress in general can therefore be anything from the experience…

Managing Stress In chapter three of the “Focus on Health” textbook, the topic is managing stress. According to the book, stress is described as a psychological and physiological response to a significant or unexpected change or disruption in one’s life. Hans Selye was the first to describe stress while observing several patients whom suffered from a series of different symptoms; such as, lack of sleep, changes in appetite, mood swings, problems concentrating and several others. He later named…

healthy is stress. Stress can be good or bad. Good stress is known as eustress and bad stress is distress. Eustress is stress that is beneficial when there is not too much of it. Eustress is stress that helps when there is a time crunch to get a project done or when there is danger. Eustress helps and like motivation in situations like this. It is when it is not used to motivate and becomes a continuous state of worry that it becomes a distress. Distress occurs when the chronic stress sets…