Meeting Life Challenges Test - 2

All the challenges, problems, and difficult circumstances put us to stress. Thus, if handled properly, stress increases the probability of one’s survival. Stress is like electricity. It gives energy, increases human arousal, and affects performance.

Stressors are events that cause our body to give a stress response. Such events include noise, crowding, a bad relationship, or the daily commuting to school or office.

This leads to physiological changes seen in the fight-or-flight response. The second pathway involves the pituitary gland, which secretes the corticosteroid(cortisol), which provides energy.

The behavioural responses are virtually limitless, depending on the nature of the stressful event.

There could be a number of causes of frustration such as social discrimination, interpersonal hurt, low grades in school, etc. These are not only symptoms of stress, but they cause further stress for us.

Attending to various emergencies are daily hassles experienced by a housewife.

There are four major effects of stress associated with the stressed state, viz.emotional, physiological, cognitive, and behavioural.emotional effects : those who suffer fromstress are far more likely to experience mood swings, and show erratic behaviourthat may alienate them from family and friends.

This state of physical, emotional, and psychological exhaustion is known as burnout. There is also convincing evidence to show that stress can produce changes in the immune system and increase the chances of someone becoming ill.

Psychoneuroimmunology studies the effects of stress on the immune system. How people respond to stress is substantially influenced by their perceptions, personalities, and biological constitutions. Stress and the immune system stress can cause illness by impairing the workings of the immune system.

The immune system also leads to the production of antibodies.