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Too much stress makes you sick
Stress is often called the "disease of the present". We all know the feeling of having too much stress, be it professionally or privately. It is important to control in time against.
First of all, stress is part of life. And to some extent, stress is not negative. Too much of it, however, can make you sick and even life-threatening. Heart attacks, for example, are triggered by emotional stress.
What is stress actually?
Stress refers to the physical and psychological responses of the organism to stress and arises when we believe we can not cope with a situation. When the thought of "I can not do it" comes to our heads, our blood pressure rises, the heart beats faster and we breathe faster. The feeling of being overwhelmed seems overpowering and we are getting restless.
The triggering causes are called stressors. Stressors are different for each individual, but examples include deadline or time pressure, conflicts, information overload or the double burden between family and work. Originally, the term stress has long since become the buzzword from English, especially from material testing. Here stress is understood to mean the tension and distortion of metals or glass. In medicine and psychology, "stress" was first transferred to humans in 1950 by the father of stress research, Hans Selye.
It is important that we compensate for our performance-related stress management in everyday life.
Stress management means:
• make positive use of stress energy, • analyze the personal situation, • balance stress and relaxation conditions, • find starting points for active relaxation and stress management, • get to know different methods of active relaxation and stress management, • use your own health resources, • reduce or prevent consequential damage from stress; • select appropriate measures, learn them and use them in specific situations, • develop a personal anti-stress program and monitor its effectiveness on an ongoing basis.
