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There are many studies and sufficient clinical evidence that shows how certain stressful situations can trigger the development of certain diseases such as duodenal ulcers, tension headaches, essential hypertension, and so on.

The consequences of stress may be multiple and varied, depending on the person, stress, coping style to the situation, and so on.

Generally, any situation of stress are a series of physiological changes such as increases in heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, etc.. Such responses are part of a normal process that occurs in all subjects to certain stimuli and is called reactivity.

It is important to distinguish between two different types of subjects, both victims of stress, but different in how they respond to situations: subjects and hiperreactors persistent reactors.

Subjects persistent reactors are those that respond with a reactivity that persists over time in a pathological way. That is, these people, they respond by raising their physiological measurements with a high frequency, and they are able to keep them high for very long times. These are the typical subjects for example, driving and someone does go to them a dangerous maneuver, develop an exaggerated angry behavior, which at first seems logical, but that behavior is a recidivist and durable, lasting for too long. Read the rest of this entry »

The demands of modern life, competition, social status, ambition, frustration, depression, beliefs and way of seeing things, produce stress Stress is the organic standard response to a threat of danger. The body prepares to defend himself or escape, enables and promotes adaptation in situations of change. This stress does not cause any problem as long as it does not become a chronic condition. Chronic stress is a state of permanent alarm that can produce organic functional impairment, illness and even death. There are two types of personality with a tendency to suffer from chronic stress, obsessive personality masking a depression and generally competitive.

The obsessive personality is characterized by the desire for control, security, power and perfection, and the struggle is with himself. The symptoms of chronic stress on obsessive people are anxiety, phobias and panic attacks. People are hyper competitive, daring, want to be leaders, they like challenges and stand out from other people, and their struggle is with others. The symptoms of chronic stress on competitive personalities are hypertension and heart disease.

Case report The patient is a senior executive of a financial company. Working many hours per day and is subject to many pressures both management and customer. No lunch at noon because he has no time, spends all day sitting, smoke, drink alcohol usually consumed several cups of coffee a day and dinner is the main meal. It started with a sore left arm that did not include any pain. As a precaution, consult your doctor on a routine visit and the results of the studies revealed high levels of cholesterol and four blocked coronary arteries. Had to undergo surgery immediately to also perform a quadruple bypass, which successfully recovered. His physician told psychotherapy to help him to change some habits harmful. This patient changed his diet, started exercising in a methodical and learned to meditate. His life changed dramatically improved their quality of life today can enjoy your family and your belongings, you can manage stress and control their emotions. Another case: The patient is a housewife, is married and has two married adult children. The husband has a depressive personality and her daughter also, so it is that adopted the role of container and counselor. The two depressive family developed the habit of discharging their negativity in it, who is always willing to listen. Became ill with cancer and had surgery. Paradoxically, this illness forced her to change and improve their quality of life. Today is recovered, psychotherapy helped raise their self-esteem, to resume the activities they had left, to do yoga and learn the art of meditation. Today is a happier person, could change their priorities and now she’s in first place.

He discovered that if you can help more than ever doing what it can and without getting involved in the problems of others. Another case: The patient worked as a public transport driver, married with two grown children, was depressed, he was frustrated and was about to leave his wife. Unfortunately failed to perform the treatment because previously suffered a heart attack and died while working. Fortunately he could park the vehicle before losing consciousness.