5 Things You Should Know About Stress

 

5 Things You Should Know About Stress

The human body is designed to experience stress and react to it The body reacts to these changes with physical, mental, and emotional responses The body’s autonomic nervous system has a built-in stress response that causes physiological changes to allow the body to combat stressful situations. This stress response, known as the “fight or flight response”, is activated in case of an emergency. This response can become chronically activated during prolonged periods of stress Stress that continues without relief can lead to a condition called distress – a negative stress reaction Stress becomes harmful when people engage in the compulsive use of substances or behaviors to try to relieve their stress Rather than relieving the stress and returning the body to a relaxed state, these substances and compulsive behaviors tend to keep the body in a stressed state and cause more problems