Stress: Meaning, Definition, and Outcomes Essay

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STRESS
We all have been at the point of wanting to just run away from tough situations and never come back and fix those problems well this is call stress. Stress refers to the physiological and psychological responses to significant or unexpected change or disruption in one's life. Students are the ones that suffer from stress at all times having to worry because they left their work at the last minute to do it. Having to hurry finishing work because they decided they could get it all the done the same day is due. Athletics suffer from stress too thinking about their game they'll have tomorrow and worrying about maintaining good grades. We can have negative or positive stress.Some symptoms of stress can be headaches, stomachaches, feeling irritable, tired, anxious and depress. Stress can also cause a person eat more or less.
Stress was first described in the 1930s by Hars Seyle who discover among several patients common symptoms such as fatigue, appetite disturbance, sleep disorders, diminished concentration and recall. He also called stress general adaptation syndrome (GAS) or "The syndrome of being ill." Seyle define stress as "The nonspecific response of the body to any demand whether is caused by or result in a pleasant or unpleasant conditions." Unpleasant events or conditions are known as distress. Stress from pleasant events or conditions are known as eustress. Stress can be positive or negative. Being positive it can cause a person motivate and energize to do something of their day. Otherwise being negative it can cause a person feel tired and depressed.
Stress can have great effects on a persons body depending of the duration of the stress.
If the duration is short the effect is minimal and the body can rest and renew itself. Not managing stress can definitely have a great effect a person's body. When we get stressed we react in specific ways which are call stress response. Stress response is the result of learned and conditioned habits adopted early in life as a way of coping with problems, conflict, and disruptive events. Our response to stress involves many physiological changes that are called the flight or fight. These responses are adaptive
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