There are two categories of stress. The first category, acute or temporary stress it is also known as the flight or fight response. What is acute stress? It’s when your brain produces chemicals that tell your body to speed up, making it perform more effectively. This is the type of stress you’ll experience when another car pulls out in front of you causing you to hit your brakes suddenly. A negative stress like this is also known as distress. It is the most commonly-referred to type of stress and affects us negatively by raising our blood pressure, sending all kinds of chemicals through our brains and bodies. If this flood of chemicals continues in your system for long periods of time, the flight or fight response can affect you very negatively and result in anxiety or even depression.
There are actually two classifications of stress – eustress and distress. Eustress is a positive form of acute stress. This is the stress you go through during positive events in your life, such as getting a promotion at work, getting married or buying a new house. These events are desirable but, just like distress eustress can be equally taxing on your body. If added together with other stressors it can also have a negative effect on your health.
The second category of stress is known as chronic or long-term stress. Chronic stress is abnormal in that it is long lasting. This is the type of stress caused by the long term flood of the chemicals in your brain and body we already talked about. It occurs when you can’t or don’t let go of stress. There is strong evidence that this type of stress actually damages the brain, heart and immune system.
Chronic stress causes a constant release of stress hormones which puts your body in continuous overdrive, ready to fight that saber tooth tiger or fight off an attacker. Studies have shown that these stress hormones can actually kill nerve cells in animals and can probably do the same in humans. So learning to control your stress is imperative to your health and longevity.
Wil Dieck is the founder of Total Mind Therapy and author of a Stress Relief e-Course that you can have at absolutely no charge. Drop by http://www.beststressreliefinfosite.com/ for your copy today.
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