HEALTH TIPS: THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT STRESS.
Stress is something that we all have to deal with, and yet
very few people know everything there is to know about it. Some people tend to
define it by the way they feel when they experience it, but learning about this
issue is key to understanding how to confront it and cope with it effectively.
The five most common factors that are most likely to cause a
person become stressed are; work, money, economic outlook, relationship and
family.
Here are the
things you didn’t know about stress
1.
Disease causing:
Stress doesn’t just cause people
to feel ill; it can actually make them ill. Studies have shown that stress has
been linked to inflammatory diseases, cardiac disease, a lowering of the immune
system, hypertension and even cancer.
2.
Stress can break your heart:
A condition called “broken heart syndrome” causes the underside of a
person’s heart to balloon into a pot-like shape. This condition is directly
caused by a stressor, albeit of an extreme nature, that causes hormones to
flood the heart.
3.
Stress can lower IQ levels:
A recent study has shown that high cortisol levels in mothers during the
later stages of their pregnancy can actually cause a lowering of IQ in their
children. Cortisol is released into the body when a person experiences
heightened stress levels. High stress levels in mothers during late pregnancy
have been known to increase the child’s vulnerability to developing autism.
4.
Stress increases vulnerability to addiction:
Many people are aware that stress can make a person to do things that
they might not ordinarily do, but one thing that people should keep in mind is
that it could make them more vulnerable to developing an addiction.
5.
Violent video games ease stress levels:
Violent video games have been blamed for a host of ills within society,
from rising gang crimes to murder, but according to researchers, this can also
aid in lowering stress levels. After being given a particularly frustrating
task, individuals were asked to play video games by researchers, and it was
found that those playing particularly violent video games were the most at ease
afterwards.
Stress has been around since the dawn of human kind, and possibly long
before that, so it isn’t likely to be going anywhere.
Stress helps people stay alive by making them aware of danger and helping
them react appropriately but when left unchecked, it can cause havoc in
people’s lives.
To deal with stress, people need to learn as much as they can about it.
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