Stress and Anxiety

Stress is a feeling of emotional or physical tension. It can come from any event or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry or nervous. Stress is the body’s reaction to a challenge or demand. Your body reacts to stress by releasing hormones. These hormones make your brain more alert, cause your muscles to tense, and increase your pulse.

Once stress and tension set in, it can perpetuate a vicious cycle into continuous stress resulting in health problems. Several studies have shown that stress is both additive and cumulative which adds up to the original stress and can reach a high level even after the initial casual factor has disappeared.

Chronic stress disrupts nearly every system in your body. It can raise blood pressure, suppress the immune system, increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, worsen diabetes and obesity, contribute to infertility, and speed up the aging process. Long-term stress can even leave you vulnerable to a host of mental and emotional problems such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. If you already have a health condition, chronic stress can make it worse. .

Symptoms of Stress & Anxiety

Stress can present with different symptoms in different individuals, including, but not limited to, physical symptoms (aches and pains, diarrhea or constipation, chronic cold, etc.); cognitive symptoms (memory problems, lack of concentration, poor judgment, etc); emotional symptoms (moodiness, Irritability or short temper, agitation, inability to relax, sense of loneliness and isolation, depression or general unhappiness); behavioral symptoms (Eating much more or much less, sleeping too much or too little, isolating yourself from others, procrastinating or neglecting responsibilities, using alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs to relax).

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Anxiety is a normal reaction to any stress. A normal reaction in most situations that can help people deal with tense situations (such as preparing for a speech or studying for an exam), it can, however, in some people, turn into a disorder where they experience a period of prolonged and intense anxiety, sometimes to the point of panic. Often, anxiety can become so intense that it interferes with their daily activities. 

Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

To the family members, the person may be anxious without sufficient reason to be so anxious. And it can appear that the person is having trouble overcoming this anxiety. Unlike the relatively mild, brief anxiety caused by a specific event (such as speaking in public or on a first date), severe anxiety that lasts at least six months is generally considered to be a problem that might benefit from evaluation and treatment.

Anxiety disorders commonly occur along with other mental or physical illnesses, including alcohol or substance abuse, which may mask anxiety symptoms or make them worse. In some cases, these other problems need to be treated before a person can respond well to treatment for anxiety and stress.

Stress and anxiety can be treated very easily and very well by:

• Medication may be required to bring down the extreme levels of stress and anxiety so that other techniques may be applied.
• Special breathing exercises that bring about quick relaxation for dealing with situations that make you feel stressed.
• Progressive muscular relaxation which involves training the brain to distinguish between relaxed and tensed muscles in the body and control them, or
• A form of Psychotherapy called Cognitive Therapy helps people work through problems and stress factors in their lives.

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