Stress

Stress is an adaptative reaction of the body to external stressors.

Stress is the activation of neuropsychic, emotive, hormonal, immune, and motory reactions.

The main stressor that may activate stress reactions include:

• nervousness, anxiety, depression
• stimulating substances (such as coffee, tobacco, drugs, alcohol, etc.)
• working and/or social troubles
• overstress
• lack of rest or bad sleep quality
• emotional choc.

Stress may be salutary and physiologic (aka eustress), but sometimes can bacome pathologic affecting negatively the entire body (aka distress)

Stress reaction develops through three steps:

1. Warning phase: the body is on alert bacause of an external stressor action, and it sets up all the stress reactions, such us increasing of heart rate or hyperventilation
2. Resistance phase: the body adjustes to external situation
3. Exhaustion phase: the body cannot adjust to external situation.

The exhaustion phase is the pathologic side of stress featuring:

• gastrointestinal disorders (nausea, diarrhea, colitis, ulcers, IBS)
• cardiovascular disorders (increasing of heart rate, hypertension, etc.)
• neuropsychic disorders (irritability, anxiety, nervousness, depression, phobias, etc.)
• sleeping disorders
• menstrual disorders
• concentration disorders
• lowering of immune defenses
• hair loss and/or dandruff
• sexual disorders
• skin disorders (acne, dermatitis, etc.)
• headache.

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