Let's explore some alarming facts with cardiovascular disease or CVD. Stress accounts for approximately 30% of the attributable risk of myocardial infarction or heart attack. psychoneuroimmunology or psi analyzes the relationship between the minds response to stress and the immune system's ability to function effectively. impaired immunity can cause respiratory infections and influenza two diseases linked with stress. Studies show a link between psychological or physical stress and diabetes. So with diabetes, increased glucose blood sugars and inadequate production and release of insulin lead to diabetes.
With obesity studies suggest that high stress levels increase the amount of the hormone cortisol released in the body causing weight gain. Stress is at the heart of a lot of mental health diagnoses. Things such as depression, anxiety, trauma related issues and anger problems. stress responses cause us to become more sensitive in terms of our emotional responding. We're more likely to argue, condescend and talk negatively to others and engage in behaviors that undermine the quality of relationships. Damaged relationships damage your support mechanisms, we have a tendency to think less clearly.
Impacting the ability to think clearly impacts directly on ability to cope, it becomes circular stress produces anxiety and therefore avoid behaviors and often poor coping strategies, such as increased substance abuse as a way of coping. Alcohol, for example, itself leads to feelings of depression. So how does stress manifest in the body? Firstly, aloe stasis the many changes that occur in the body to maintain homeostasis. With allostatic load long term wear and tear on the body is caused by prolonged stress. This can result from either too many or too few stress hormones released into the system as a result of sustained stress and stressors.
Stressors do not need to be ostensibly real, the realness comes from our interpretation of events and our capability to respond and cope with we are all different and each of us different again in different circumstances. is stress as part of our uniqueness