Stress assessment and management techniques
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Stress is something that everyone can relate too. There is no way around it. With today’s society life is impossible to get by without stress. Some people tend to stress more than others. A person’s personality can determine if they will let stress bother them or not. The way one copes with stress can affect their emotions, attitude, and health. Emotions affect our susceptibility to our immunity; the function that guards the body from invaders, both internal and external. The way a human feels can affect our immune system by boosting it or weakening it, and as we all know emotional health is a key part to our total wellness. The mind and body connection is very important to our emotions as they cause physiologic responses that can influence our health. The brain releases specific hormones with specific emotions that affect our health, so keeping the stress levels down helps keep the mind right, when the mind is right it helps the body in keeping it balanced with health.
There are two different types of stress, Eustress (good) and distress (bad). Eustress is considered positive stress; health and performance continue to improve even as stress increases. Distress is negative stress; unpleasant or harmful stress under which health and performance begin to deteriorate. The body strives to maintain a balance between good and bad stress to maintain homeostasis; a natural state of equilibrium, which the body attempts to maintain by constantly reacting to external forces that attempt to disrupt this fine balance.