STRESS

Stress is the term generally applied to the pressures that people have in their daily lives. It becomes apparent as a download in our body product, of the accumulation of physical or sociological tension. This process involves almost all organs and body functions, including the brain, nerves, heart, digestion and muscle function and others.

Stress can generate a positive or negative result, the positive stress is the energy that motivates people to do different things and the negative stress is the one that damages our body.

How the stress is produced

There are two types of factors that can cause stress:

1. External Stimuli: economic and family problems, overwork, fear among others.
2. Internal stimuli: those of the body, for example such a pain, illness, inferiority feelings, sociological problems and others.

There are two types of stress:

1. Physical Stress.
2. Mental Stress.

Physical stress is produced by the development of a disease, from an acute infection, traumas, pregnancy and so on. While mental stress is the one caused by anxiety, worries that in many cases are financial, emotional problems at work, among others.

Symptoms of stress

The physical symptoms can be headaches, backaches, fatigue, sweating, gastritis etc. Among the sociological symptoms there can be emphasized the bad memory, tiredness, feeling upset, relationships with others begin to fail, fights with everyone.

When a person is faced with a stressful situation the sleep is the first thing that is lost (insomnia), nightmares appears, the appetite increases or on the contrary the appetite diminishes.

The persons exposed to constant stressful situations are likely to develop hypertension problems.

How to fight stress

When stress threatens you, seek help, usually the affected person is the last to know and can be faced with stress when it has already caused damage to the organism.
Some important aspects to combat stress:

1. Share with someone any stressful situation. If attacked on the street do not keep this feeling of fear, Tell a friend or relative.
2. Solve problems at the time they appear, do not let them accumulate.
3. Maintain an adequate nutrition because the body must be prepared for the additional expenditure of energy that is created by a stressful situation.
4. Physical exercise, this will allow you to get rid of toxic substances that accumulate in the organism, and moreover it strengthens the circulatory system and muscles.