How Stress is affecting health?

What is Stress?

Stress is a natural reaction to specific demands and events, but ongoing stress can affect a person’s health and wellbeing. Tips for managing stress include exercise, setting priorities, counseling, and more.

Stress is a natural reaction to specific demands and events, but ongoing stress can affect a person’s health and wellbeing. Tips for managing stress include exercise, setting priorities, counseling, and more.

Physical effects

Stress slows down some normal bodily functions, such as those that the digestive and immune systems perform. The body can then concentrate its resources on breathing, blood flow, alertness, and the preparation of the muscles for sudden use.

The body changes in the following ways during a stress reaction:

• Blood pressure and pulse rise
• Breathing speeds up
• Muscles become more tense
• Sleepiness decreases due to a heightened state of alertness

Psychological effects

Stress can make functioning on a daily basis more challenging.

Following are few signs/ways in which body reacts:

• Headaches
• Fatigue
• Difficulty sleeping
• Nervousness