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What Is Stress? We constantly talk about being stress – but what is stress and is it something that in today’s modern day living has lost its true meaning.Talking to Neil Shah, Director of The Stress Management Society, he explained to me that stress is a physical response, it’s a survival mechanism which triggers your body to react which is known as the “Fight or Flight”. We are designed to experience stress if we receive a shock or perceive a threat; our bodies react by quickly releasing hormones put it in to a physiological state that ensures we have the best chance of survival. In humans, as in other animals, these hormones help us to run faster and fight harder. They increase heart rate and blood pressure, delivering more oxygen and blood sugar to power important muscles. They increase sweating in an effort to cool these muscles, and help them stay efficient. They divert blood away from the skin to the core of our bodies, reducing blood loss if we are damaged. As well as this, these hormones focus our attention on the threat, to the exclusion of everything else. All of this significantly improves our ability to survive life-threatening events. Life-threatening events are not the only ones to trigger this reaction. We experience it almost any time we come across something unexpected or something that frustrates our goals. When the threat is small, our response is small and we often do not notice it among the many other distractions of a stressful situation. So as you can see if we are constantly mobilising our body for survival it is bound to have negative consequences. We are excitable, anxious, jumpy and irritable. This reduces our ability to work effectively. With trembling and a pounding heart, we can find it difficult to execute precise, controlled skills. Focusing on survival means we make decisions based on the good of ourselves rather than the good of the group. We shut out information from other sources and cannot make balanced decisions. The long term effect of constantly being stressed has shown it can have a detrimental affect to your health and study after study has demonstrated to have a negative impact on the following conditions: Allergies Asthma Colitis Constipation Depression Diabetes mellitus Hay fever Heart attack High blood pressure Indigestion Menstrual difficulties Migraine Overactive thyroid gland Peptic ulcers Rheumatoid arthritis Skin Disorders Tuberculosis *Source: Cary Cooper. Stress and employer liability Some stress is good The research shows that some stress is good. Stress ‘revs up’ the body thanks to naturally-occurring performance enhancing chemicals like adrenalin and cortisol. This heightens ability in the short term. But there is a limit. If severe stress is allowed to go unchecked in the longer term, performance will ultimately decline. Not only that, the constant bombardment by stress related chemicals and stimulation will weaken a person's body. And ultimately that leads to degenerating health. In extreme cases, it can cause psychological problems such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Cumulative Stress Disorder. Remember it is physically impossible to be anxious and relaxed at the same time. Effects of stress on bodily functions. Brain - Under stress - headaches or migraines, tremors and nervous tics Mood - Under stress - anxiety, loss of sense of humour Saliva - Under stress - dry mouth, lump in throat Muscles - Under stress - muscular tension and pain Heart - Under stress - hypertension and chest pains Lungs - Under stress - coughs and asthma Stomach - Under stress - ulcers due to heartburn & indigestion Bowels - Under stress - abdominal pain and diarrhoea Bladder - Under stress - frequent urination, prostatic symptoms Sexual Organs - Under stress - (f) menstrual disorders(m) impotence Skin - Under stress - dryness and rashes Bio-Chemistry - Under stress - rapid tiredness Relationships Under Stress When you are stressed you can become less-than-careful with the person you love. You concentrate on your own situation and forget how it affects your partner. Soon you have a vast gulf in understanding, and ultimately this could lead to the breakdown of the relationship. The Stress Management Society’s relationship experts have seen stress cause divorce. Their advice is to make your relationship a priority. And, they say, it helps if you pay attention to the difference between the sexes.. Advice for women Men primarily want to be king of their castle, to be loved unconditionally and to make their woman happy. Relationship ‘killers’ will cause your man to become stressed, frustrated or even aggressive and he will often withdraw. This destroys any chance of true intimacy. Five ways women kill a relationship without realising it: 1. By criticising him. 2. By threatening or actually withdrawing love. 3. By not acknowledging or appreciating him. 4. By taking control. 5. By challenging him. Advice for men Women may seem like complex emotional beings; yet they are often just looking for their core needs to be met. These are to feel safe, secure and cherished. Little girls dream of being the princess rescued by her knight in shining armour who whisks her away to his castle. Meet those needs, and you’ll experience the relationship of your dreams. Five ways men kill a relationship without realising it… 1. By being indecisive or uncertain. 2. By forgetting to compliment her. 3. By not focusing on her or the relationship. 4. By asking for help or letting her take control. 5. By any form of aggression. For more information on Stress go to Stress Management Society www.stress.org.uk/ or email info@stress.org.uk or telephone 08701 999 235 Or download the Stress Management Feel Karma Stress Guide
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