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Stress Management: Rajlakshmi Guha Iit Kharagpur

This document discusses types of stress and the effects of stress on the mind and body. It outlines acute stress, which results from short-term stressors like exams or deadlines, and can cause recognizable symptoms. Chronic stress is grinding stress that wears on people over long periods through issues like financial problems or illnesses. Chronic stress is linked to learned helplessness and can negatively impact cognition, appetite, digestion, sexual activity, and growth through disruption of the body's reconstruction processes. Both acute and chronic stress activate the sympathetic nervous system and stress hormones, with chronic stress posing more severe and long-lasting health risks if not managed properly.

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Stress Management: Rajlakshmi Guha Iit Kharagpur

This document discusses types of stress and the effects of stress on the mind and body. It outlines acute stress, which results from short-term stressors like exams or deadlines, and can cause recognizable symptoms. Chronic stress is grinding stress that wears on people over long periods through issues like financial problems or illnesses. Chronic stress is linked to learned helplessness and can negatively impact cognition, appetite, digestion, sexual activity, and growth through disruption of the body's reconstruction processes. Both acute and chronic stress activate the sympathetic nervous system and stress hormones, with chronic stress posing more severe and long-lasting health risks if not managed properly.

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STRESS MANAGEMENT

RAJLAKSHMI GUHA
IIT KHARAGPUR
SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS
OF STRESS
MODULE 3
OUTLINE

• TYPES OF STRESS
• EFFECT OF STRESS ON MIND AND BODY
Review…
A few important points to remember about Stress –

• We all experience stress at times


• feeling overloaded, wound up tight, tense, worried
• sometimes motivates to finish a task /perform well
• Harmful if over-stressed
- interferes with ability to get on with normal living
Wheaton, 1994
Acute Stress
Symptoms….
Acute stress symptoms – easily recognized by
people in stress
A few acute stressors…
• Failed an exam
• Interview / presentation / submissions around the corner
• Recent relationship break up
• Lost a job recently
• Accident
• Deadline to meet soon
• Car broke down / maid didn’t come
• Sudden illness or death of a close one
The exciting part about Acute stress
Thrilling events cause acute stress
Adventure sports
Someone jumping on you – startled response –
link to F-or F response
The disadvantages..
Thrills are exhilarating and fun for short periods
of time
Tiring and draining if continued for long
Effects of Acute stress
• Physiological changes
• Emotional changes
• Cardio vascular changes
• Digestive changes
Acute stress can affect anyone
It is manageable and can be treated
Chronic stress
Grinding stress that wears people away day after day year after year

• War
• Financial crisis
• Long term relationship problems
• Traumatic experiences
• Unwanted career/ job
• Chronic illnesses
• Dysfunctional families

- unrelenting demands and pressures for interminable periods of time –


LEARNED HELPLESSNESS

- From traumatic childhood experiences – internalized as a part of daily life


Common signs of chronic stress

Physical signs:

Psychological signs:
Effect of stress on performance
• Effect of stress on Appetite and digestion – “LOST MY
APPETITE” –
Digestion is a Para sympathetic activity
During stress, Sympathetic Nervous system - activated making
individual vigilant and aroused, but suppresses appetite

• Effect on sexual activity – sexual arousal and reproduction are


inhibited by the physiological concomitants of stress
– Precludes testosterone release in males
– Reduces concentration of estrogen in females

• Effects of stress on cognition – chronic stress affects beliefs


and views of the world
Effect on growth

• sympathetic nervous system  release of various digestive enzymes


affected nutrients not absorbed  nutritional deficits  growth
affected

In adults:
stress hormones disrupt
• the processes by which the body reconstructs itself through the use of
calcium  Stress is responsible for the disintegration of bone
SUMMARY
• TYPES OF STRESS
• EFFECT OF STRESS ON BEHAVIOUR
COGNITION
SEXUAL ACTIVITY
DIGESTION AND GROWTH
THANK YOU

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