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The causes of stress have changed dramatically throughout history. Civilizations have created new pressures that test the ability to survive. Often people are faced continually with situations that excite the body unconsciously, accumulated energy then is not used. The physical pressure can build up and eventually can lead to exhaustion and disease.

Stress builds up emotions through aggression, impatience, anger, anxiety and fear, emotions that trigger the body’s reaction to stress. An unhealthy diet, the snuff, alcohol and drugs also can help increase physical stress. Stress can arise from situations at work, at home, in relationships, may be the result of internal emotional conflicts, environment, diet, poor health, economic hardship and certain important situations in the life of a human being: births, deaths, marriage or divorce.

The causes can be classified as follows : Physiological: These causes are related to diseases and injuries of the body that increase the tension within a person causing a stress level that it becomes counterproductive to oneself. For example, an organic disease causes a negative reaction in the emotional field. Psychological: It is related to emotional and cognitive vulnerability. Life crises by certain changes: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Interpersonal conflict or insufficient. Frustrating conditions of work or study, excessive demand or competition, monotony, inconsistent standards, career dissatisfaction, and so on.

Social: Social changes in each season brings new challenges to face. Rapid technological changes that the person can not integrate, and so on. Environmental: environmental pollution, food denatured toxic industrial workplaces with little security or electrostatically charged, pathogens, natural disasters, among others.

keep the body hydrated helps lower levels of anxiety and stress. Reduce amount of salt, coffee, tea, mate, alcohol and snuff. In addition to steady your nerves, improve the overall appearance of your skin. -Getting enough sleep and thus replenish the energy needed for normal body functioning. Seven or eight hours is recommended to improve resistance to stress. If the hours of sleep are scarce, it is advisable to take a nap no longer than 15 minutes. -Study and learn, exercise and staying busy mind and no room for evil thoughts also can trigger stress.

Physical Activity , Walking does not require great effort and improves the general circulation. For those who remain seated for most of the day, daily short walks but relaxes the body and reduces stress. -Sports Practice improves cardiovascular health, helps to eliminate fat and burn calories. It also reduces stress and prevents stress. If team play games with competing claims, to avoid clashes with other participants. Social relations , recognized the critical and request, as well as express their own opinions honestly. Ask for help and so, to recognize another person.

Also the vent with others is recommended to reduce stress, but in perspective taking into account the other person. * Avoid pleasing everyone is required to avoid stress, no pressure to accept others. -Understanding and tolerance for conflict resolution, the attitude tends to be more healthy and fit, while eliminating stress. In the work environment adapt the work with photographs, favorite music, and other elements that can help improve job performance. Measuring capacity to avoid exhausted trying to do more tasks as possible, which can cause stress. Unhook tasks that do not advance, making a pause, and possibly leave the area for a while or switch tasks. Analysis Respecting the motivations and activities that are of interest and really you like.

If you have an activity that is not, it is desirable to find a justification to oneself, or where possible, do not do it. Safeguard the self to circumstances or people that threaten their dignity, it is recommended to minimize stress. Focusing on goals personal or work in the short and medium term. Recreation -Allow time for relaxation activities at any time of day, relax and reduce stress. Among them are: … read … singing … cooking … go to the movies … music … water the plants … collect objects to play with your pet … More Tips Take a immersion bath or shower cool in summer, it is recommended to promote good mood and avoid stress. No abuse with shopping malls that can increase heart rate due to the amount of visual stimuli that can produce anxiety and stress. Sort of house , clean, decorate and change some things around, sometimes it helps to avoid stress.

How do organize and plan the day with an updated agenda with the various activities, no more than possible. Tick ​​or cross out those that are completed. At day’s end, it is advisable to prepare a plan for the next day and relax the mind and more orderly. Remember the ideals and values ​​that are important for the many other small things. Taking into account the achievements and always consider new challenges or desires by leaving little room for anxiety, and stress.

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 »

Children react to stress and trauma in different ways. I remember when I was nine years or so, watching a scary movie with my older sister, I had very bad. I had nightmares the next two nights and kept calling my mother to come with me.

Imagine as children may be feeling to which we are supporting in Libya, children who have often been hurt or even killed as their families, whose homes have been destroyed by mortars and grenades, children who have lost contact with their brothers and have themselves been attacked by armed men. Children who have fled the violence.

Imagine their reaction when they hear any loud sound. We’re talking to parents who say their children show signs of severe stress and depression such as continuous nightmares, shouting for the night, the silence continued throughout the day … Read the rest of this entry »

Telomere , along with stress , one of the two key words in the text this week, has not been selected this time, after the ritual reading of the most important biomedical journals, but we have what it contains, from the point of view of the biology of aging , indirectly, an article on April 7, in a prestigious global magazine, whose style is one of the paradigms of the mainstreaming of information regarding the areas of knowledge, despite professional realization of your head: The Economist .

The title of the article published in section All Science & technology is ” Stress and Ageing . A question of attitude ” (stress and aging. An attitude problem), with the following subtitle: The link Between stress and a chronic marker of Being old age is disentangled (The relationship between chronic stress and a marker of aging is being unwound). It is in the opening paragraph of the text which appears first word telomeres (“telomeres”): ” Telomeres – it is said, are for the chromosomes as the caps of plastic (“plastic caps”) for laces shoes – to wear their hinder ends . “

On two occasions he has appeared in this informative weekly blog, and some reflections on the telomeres : the July 24, 2006, entitled The length of chromosomal telomeres in old age, a “lifeline” , while the December 21, 2009, the title was ” Human aging is inherent in their biological condition, must be taken reasonably and improved”. Read the rest of this entry »

Women’s brain is more sensitive to the action of a hormone that orchestrates the body’s response to stress, according to a new study in Philadelphia (USA). Men, however, neurons can adapt to resist its effects.

Women’s brain is more sensitive to the action of a hormone that orchestrates the body’s response to stress, according to a new study in Philadelphia (USA) and published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Men, however, neurons can adapt to resist its effects. To conduct their research, the scientists used male and female specimens of rats, exposed to situations where stress and then measured their levels of brain activity. Thus, a team led by Rita Valentino neurons found that females are more sensitive to the molecular signals emitted by a hormone called corticotropin releasing factor (CRF). This hormone, discovered in the eighties, is responsible for initiating the stress response.

Thus, by having more receptors for this substance, female neurons are more likely than men to react and trigger the stress process. Although the study was conducted in rodents, neuroscientist Rita Valentino, the lead author of the study, says that helps explain why women are twice as likely to suffer stress than men .

On the other hand, Valentino and his colleagues have discovered that, when subjected to chronic stress, males adjust their brain mechanisms for coping with stress more efficiently, reducing the number of CRF receptors, and therefore become less sensitive to hormone and more resistant to pressure situations. In female rats do not.

For too long we have been told that stress is manifested by an instinct of fight or flight. But it has been scientifically proven that women act to stress differently. Prehistoric women who were physically disadvantaged, protecting each other is defending, organizing and establishing linkages. They continue to find comfort and strength in the union. Women help when they talk about their problems, when they are nearby.

They prefer to flee
For its part, the men try to cope with stress in ways that, in the opinion of women, seem to threaten the ties of affection, with distractions (work, television, computer), search for status (work, sports) emotional closure (if feels nothing, does not feel inadequate); anger (if it exercises power and control, does not feel the impotence of failure, etc.).

They need to talk
What women have a harder time understanding is that half the men – tors relations are not a source of comfort. Fight or flight is the male equivalent of caring and friendships among women. In these circumstances, the message to women is overwhelming: the man in your life will be more love – rous, compassionate and supportive if you understand and accept their vulnerability to shame.

Men’s health is more vulnerable to stress than women, according to a recent study by the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, who participated in the three thousand people in Finland. The research demonstrates how psychological problems such as anxiety and mental exhaustion, increase the harmful effects of stress on health.

The study has an impact on four problematic situations for human beings: death or serious illness of a family member, a victim of some form of violence, whether physical, mental or sexual abuse, interpersonal conflicts, such as divorce and economic difficulties caused for example by the loss of a job.

“Much of the research suggests a relationship between daily stressful situations and subsequent health problems,” says study author Mika Kivimäki, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki in Finland.

“We found that all of situations that have been discussed above are associated with increased psychological problems and a gradual deterioration of health. The death or illness of a family is classified as the most serious situation.

These results support previous research which states that men are more affected by life events than women. In the men’s sector, as indicated by the reasons for the low men in the study, the conflicts that arise throughout life are associated with psychological problems and increased alcohol and snuff, with consequent health problems. Among women, however, situations of daily life are associated with psychological problems and addiction to snuff, but not sickness.

“The analysis of people who have suffered stress shows that men have the attention of younger society women,” says the author. Often social support helps these individuals to cope with their problems, but the fact of lack of support may explain the increased vulnerability of man “

First you have to rule out any disease of an organic nature, through the appropriate analysis.

Having determined that the source is a psychological, should make a serious reflection on the kind of life is taking.

Must see if rest is appropriate, ie if a number of hours asleep acceptable and times are scheduled. If this is not true, must be corrected and set timetables to regularize this situation.

Should determine whether the lifestyle is too sedentary. If so, it should also devote some hours to some kind of activity or exercise.

More important that the above is the way it is facing the problem situations. We must avoid any kind of anticipatory anxiety thinking, which is the major cause of maintenance and growth of that anxiety, causing even greater insecurity. Agree to act naturally, the more you observe any signs of anxiety, the more likely to happen.

Sometimes the first signs of the beginning of a panic attack, often manifested by a slight tingling in your hands. This means that there is an excess of oxygen caused by hyperventilation, as explained above. At this point it is ideal diaphragmatic breathing, slow breaths, keeping the air with inspiration and releasing as slowly as possible. The ideal is to inspire the lungs fill up while we see how increasing the volume of our abdomen, retain some air gently expelled immediately, so that the exhalation last about twice as inspiration. Sometimes you use a plastic bag to breathe into it, so that after a few minutes is possible to reduce the oxygen level in the body and away the tickling sensation.

Another symptom is usually anticipatory a sudden feeling of loss of balance, dizziness or unsteadiness. In these situations, it is advisable not to focus attention on our bodies and instead, focus it outwards. For example, directing gaze to something far away, trying to identify it, can help restore or maintain balance. This is direct visual attention in a different direction to our body. You can also do this exercise with the other senses, always focused outward, never to our body. Try to identify distant sounds, cars, voices or anything else, may be a valid system to achieve blur our attention to the problem.

We must devote the necessary time to get relax. Once you have managed to avoid or minimize the crisis, there is always more to reward ourselves with some small satisfaction. After all the correct implementation of these instructions, requires some training and get the right result is an achievement that brings us closer to the future control of our body and therefore the solution of the problem.

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.