Stress and stress management
Stress and stress managementStress can be loosely defined as anything that is experienced as a threat to your stability or equilibrium. A portion of your nervous system is activated to ready the body to meet the demands brought on by an emotional upset. The stress responses is a physiological response to stress that results in heightened mental and physical awareness such as elevated heartrate, faster breathing, dilated pupils, and tense muscles. Stress can be broken down into three stages.
The initial reaction to stress is the alarm response or the fight or flight response. The body's resources are put into action to meet immediate physical activity. The activity of the sympathetic nervous system, heartrate, and stroke volume is increased and digeation is decreased to deal with a wide range of physical change coping with an impending threat.
The second stage is the resistance response. The body increases its capacity to deal with stress. If the stress continues for a prolonged amount of...
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