KK4: Stress

Stress

a state of mental, emotional, and physiological tension resulting from a stressor

Distress

Stress characterised by a negative psychological state

Eustress

Stress characterised by a positive psychological state

Acute stress

Stress characterised by intense psychological and physiological symptoms for a short period of time.

RESULTING IN: effectively dealing with challenges, quick recovery

Chronic stress

Stress characterised by less intense psychological and physiological symptoms for a long period of time.

RESULTING IN: worsening your body by

- supressing your immune system

- upsetting your reproductive system

- Increasing the risk of a heart attack

Stressor

a stimulus that causes stress or is perceived as a threat/challenge

Internal Stressor

a stressor that originates within the body that causes stress, Can be psychological and biological/physiological

External Stressor

a stress that originates outside the body that causes stress.

Fight-Flight-Freeze response

WHAT: an involuntary, autonomic, and adaptive response to a threat

PROMINENT: in acute stress

HOW: body is given necessary resources to maximise survival

Cortisol

WHAT: a stress hormone

PROMINENT: in chronic stress

HOW: aids body repair damages caused by stress, releases after flight-fight-freeze

Responding to prolonged stress

stress (also considered a psychobiological process) for a prolonged period can

- have physiological impacts on h+wb

- make a sickness more likely to occur

- susceptible to health concerns

PYSCHOSOMATIC ILLNESSES: result from psychological factors leading to physiological symptoms