What are the effects of emotional stress?

Answer 1

Prolongued emotional stress can cause a general systemic acidosis this can make you more susceptable to an increasing amount of soluble heavy metals and compromize your immune system by imparing the cells making them more susceptable to disease. It's not just emotional stress but stress of any kind that is prolongued whether it is derived from internal or external factors. If you are stressed you likely have a problem that you haven't worked on quite long enough to solve in the most beneficial way, break it down into smaller less complicated sub problems and work on some of those, pass a lot of water and treat stress like a duck treats water it lives in it eats in it and swims in it and raises a family in it yet it could drowned and if its wings get wet it cannot fly but yet it thrives on water because when he gets to wet he simply shakes it off.

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Answer 2

I think you mean by emotional stress extremes of anger, fear, sadness, surprise, joy etc. The effects can be benign and easily gotten over or clinically serious. Fear or surprise can cause hormone release which prepares the body for fight or flight; anger which may result can also release a lot of adrenalin which stresses the body. Disappointment or negativity can cause sadness which results in a hormonally induced slowing of bodily functions. All these emotions in the extreme or over long periods can have clinical repercussions.

You might think joy could never be clinically detrimental but when long periods of extreme elation or mania ensue one can be diagnosed with bipolar disorder which see by typing in "bipolar disorder" into Yahoo! search. Wikipedia gives a good summary.

Try "anger management" in Yahoo! search for a number of links as to what to do in case anger becomes uncontrollable.

Try "clinical depression" in Yahoo! search for links to this extreme disorder. Wikipedia gives a good rundown.

"Fear" and "anxiety" when typed into Yahoo! search give a number of links to find info and what is to be done in cases of unmanageable fear reactions. Wikipedia in both cases is good.

In all these control of what you do about your emotions is important. You can't control your emotions but you can will what you do in response to them. A book by Abraham Low, "Mental health through will training." is available at Amazon. com.

Good luck, good health, peace and Love!