What do you understand by the term 'stress'? Discuss.?

Question

Discuss on the various factors that contribute to the development of stress and the impact on the health system. Do you think that Stress is unavoidable? Also discuss on the biopsychosocia interactions.

Answer 1

load per area is stress as per engineering
mental and physical load over a person can be defined as stress
when these stress exceeds the tollerence level of a person his mind blows off and he naturally went in sane

stress is avoidable by making proper plan and execute it with caution. being cautios is different from fear. fear catalizes stress. before involving in a work, get the full knowledge about the work and related to the work

Answer 2

You needd to look at "Preventing Chronic Disease: a Strategic Framework" at http://www.nphp.gov.au/publications/strategies/chrondis-bgpaper.pdf

It discusses chronic disease, many of which are due to ALLOSTATIC OVERLOAD. This state occurs when stress is chronic and severe. What is severe for one person may be inconsequential to another. Genetic predisposition plays a role here too. Negative stress: Mental and physical health may be severely compromised. The central nervous system (which sends messages to the brain), the immune system and cardio-vascular system are disscussed in relation to the health effects of chronic and severe stress. Do you know what kills spawing salmon? Their stress levels become so high and the chemicals and hormones in their bodies actually reach toxic levels (allostatic overload) and they resultantly die from the toxicity. Isn't that the best illustration you ever heard of regarding the toxic effect of stress on living organisms??
Anyway, this paper is a great "jumping-off" point with which to begin your research.

Positive stress: a motiving factor like needing to make the deadline for when your PAPER IS DUE. Check to see how this type of stress is related to the one below; they must be in some manner.

Lastly, don't forget to discuss the "flight or flight" survival value of stress to the organism. In particular, you might want to explore how it affects the autonomic nervous system (breathing, heart-rate, blood flow and so on).

Good luck and hope you get an A.

Answer 3

based on my experience and observations, I believe stress in the #1 health risk. I believe it can cause all sorts of illness beyond the typical heart attack we all relate it to.

i believe it can cause cancers of all sorts. Humans are more then carbon based organisms. We are energy and the energy stress causes effects the "song" the cell in our bodies play. They will mutate, cease to perform their "job".

with all the social systems we have established to live collectively and experience "success" stress can not be avoided BUT, the intensity and the amount of time we spend in that mind set is absolutely in our control.

That is why God gave us the gift of laughter. Life is about joy. the longer you live there more evident it becomes that things work them selves out.

"there is no such thing as a problem with out a gift in its hand. We seek problems because we need their gifts"

Answer 4

Stress is perceptual. Can it be avoided? No... And shouldn't be. There are two kinds of stress. There is Distress and Eustress(sp). Distress is bad stress while Eustress is good stress. Again, it is perceptual. Imagine being dangling from a rope high up on the side of a cliff. For me, that would be significant Distress, but for a rock climber it would be Eustress. Exercise is stress that is great for you body, but it could be distressful for your mind if you don't like to exercise. If you change the way you think about stress, you are likely to change the way it affects you.

BTW, not sure how to spell Eustress... Again, I don't have my psych books handy to look it up.

Answer 5

Without stress we wouldn't be able to survive. Yes it is unavoidable, but also manageable. Regular stress keeps us alive, such as air pressure and the beating of our own heart to pump blood (which IS truly stress).