Stress

The term "Stress" which has become a catch word nowadays comes from English language and was originally used in the field of materials testing to denote deformation or deflection. In biology, the term was introduced in 1950 by a medical scientist Dr. Hans Seyle and has been used in common language since the 1970s.

Definition of stress

Originally, the medical term "stress" had strong marked negatively and denoted exhaustive strains, effort and vexation – in other words, things which a human being undergoes daily due to noise, frustration, pain and so on. Thus, it referred to a person’s adaptation effort which result in emotional and physical disbalance.

According to the survey carried out by DAK (german medical insurance company) in December 2007, each second respondent suffers from working under time pressure, and this figure even amounts to 66 percent in the age group of 18-29. 42% of respondents suffer from stress in daily life and 40% – from family problems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2030 depression will be the world’s second-most widespread disease after AIDS.

What happens in the body under stress?

The so-called “stress hormones” – adrenaline (which gets active within seconds) and cortisone (which produces a long-term effect) – are released from the adrenal glands. They cause stress reactions, such as:

During the second phase, the body functions get normalized again. However, if no recovery phase follows, a real problem may occur, since the released amount of cortisone still remains on a high level. The consequences are depressions, burnout and sleep disturbance.

The reasons for stress can be quite different, starting from such serious problems as death of a close relative, loss of work, moral or physical loneliness – up to less significant like emotional and physical tiredness, constantly accelerating rhythm of life and massive daily flow of information.

STRESS – a challenge for the modern human being

Dr. Schumacher, a British expert in economics, warns that stress can threaten the existence of the human race. Stress increasingly threatens the biological functions of a human being and – in terms of evolution in nature – can lead to disappearance of the whole population (e.g. due to circulatory diseases, AIDS, etc.). Let us accept the fact that in spite of drastic environmental changes, the mechanism of stress still has exactly the same pattern as with our stone-age predecessors, ten thousand years ago. Thus, here we deal with some pre-programmed, unconscious processes which cannot be changed by the influence of our will. Let us keep these processes in mind and draw the consequences. Let us change our way of thinking and acting and enjoy the soft wisdom of nature, so that we can profit from this life-saving mechanism and stop suffering from stress.

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