Factors that Causes Stress

In the modern world, people experience stress in various forms throughout their daily lives. Stress in the medical world referred to as the “silent killer”. Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain usually caused by demanding situations, a traumatic experience and often times due to mental health issues namely anxiety. While perfectly normal to experience stress and sometimes beneficial in providing a person with needed focus in order to perform important tasks. However, this condition can become uncontrolled, persistent, overbearing and in many destroy overall well-being. The human body reacts to stress with physical, emotional and mental changes. As is the case with many people today, the conditions linger for long periods, resulting in damage to the body and causing numerous health issues.

The human body deals with the condition of stress by showing symptoms of headaches, muscle aches, dizziness, blurred vision, inability to focus and in severe cases affect major organs namely the heart. Providing that, a self-defense mechanism known as the ‘acute stress response’, more commonly referred to as fight or flight response is, activated in the presence of stressful events. Subsequently, this is a physiological reaction to physically and mentally undesirable situations and wreaks havoc on overall health and well-being. Heart attacks statistically, are one of the leading causes of death in the United States for the last several decades. Resulting from a common symptom of prolonged stress, which is high-blood pressure. In addition to this, external factors also contribute to stress namely tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, recreational drugs and many other stimulants.

In view of the stress epidemic, various medicinal trea...

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