What is stress?

I have long wanted to write an article about the that is the stress of .

Do you know why?

Because with this word, like a shield, they often like to cover up their inability to work, solve problems, fulfill their direct duties lazy, hysterical, hippos and other useless people.

I decided once and for all to dot the "and", and explain the history of origin, symptoms, causes, types of stress and ways to deal with it.

Oh, I have stress, although I have no idea what it is

. I did not accidentally start a conversation about unpleasant people that they like to hide under stress.

With one such I worked. It was a stupid creature, arranged in our acquaintance company, which could not accomplish any single task. Her name was Lucy.

And then, when the task of the leadership seemed to be especially difficult for her or delayed the deadline, Lusya fell into a nervous state and shouted to everyone around: "I have stress. I can not do anything. "

At one point the boss realized that even a long friendship with Uncle Lucy would not make him keep this useless creature in his staff and with a rebuff in the style of "yes you know what stress is, lazy" sacked the young lady.

We all breathed a sigh of relief, because such a valuable cooperation, when you have to perform not only your work, but also Lucina, we all were tired.

What is stress, and what kind of stress is it?

The very word "stress" is a calque from the English stress, which translates as tension, load, pressure.

That is, stress is a reaction of the human body, which for a long time is under the pressure of adverse factors and the impact of heavy loads.

Depending on the emotional component( positive or negative):

• Eustresses are useful stresses that give a positive boost to our body's energy.

  It's no secret that a small dose of adrenaline is useful to the human body, so he cheered up, shook himself, woke up at last.

• Distresses are harmful stresses that cause overvoltage.

  Single distresses do not do much harm to the body, but if you do not leave this condition for a long time, then stress can develop into something more dangerous, depression, for example.

Stresses are also classified according to the factors that trigger their appearance:

• Psychological.

  Most often occurs when a person can not establish interaction with the society.

• Emotional.

  The reason for its occurrence is unduly strong emotions( both positive and negative) that a person can not cope with.

• Information - the body's response to some unexpected information, most often - negative.
• Managerial is the misfortune of all executives who have to make important decisions every day.

Who first understood what stress is?

Of course, stress always existed.

For sure, even primitive people who have not been able to catch a mammoth for a long time, suffered from nervous tension and stress, although they themselves did not understand the state of their body.

But close study of this problem was taken only in the first half of the twentieth century.

For the first time to understand and describe what stress is, Nobel Prize winner Hans Selye won the prize in 1936.Prior to it, the term "stress" was used as a technical one and meant the resistance of some material to external pressure.

Selye decided that all this is applicable to the human body and began research, fortunately, not in humans, but in rats.

Animal advocates will certainly call the Nobel laureate a sadist and a lover and will be somewhere right, but science is often unmerciful towards our lesser brothers.

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Selye's experiments were that he tortured rats in various ways( loud sound, immobilization, current, water), and then did an autopsy of the test rodent, which showed that the internal organs of the rat had changed, most often they showed a stomach ulcer.

So, Selye drew the conclusion that the internal organs of rats are not amenable to pathologies, not from the very effects of electric current, water or loud noise, but as a result of the reaction of the rodent organism to them.

Alas, to understand what stress is, it was due to the inhumane experiments of the scientist.

How to understand that you have stress?

Stress has its own pronounced symptoms, so covering up your stupidity, laziness, unwillingness to take responsibility for your body's reaction to external pressure, is to deceive yourself.

You can safely say that you have stress, if you:

1. Constantly feel tired and broken.
2. You notice that your ability to remember new information has worsened, and you even began to forget what you knew before.
3. We began to sleep badly.
4. Have lost an appetite or on the contrary absorb huge portions.
5. You can not get rid of the feeling of uneasiness and obsession that something bad will happen soon.
6. Speak at a fast pace that was previously not typical of you.
7. Stop reacting to funny jokes and are in a depressed state.
8. You are never satisfied with the results of your work.
9. Complain of headaches or stomach aches.
10. You can not concentrate.
11. Easily fall into a state of rage.
12. Steel even perform a simple job much longer than before.
13. You make silly mistakes.
14. You show stubbornness where you do not need to do this.
15. Sorry for yourself and think that your life failed.

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Separately, each of these symptoms is intolerable, but diagnosing at least 5 symptoms from the list should make you think: is not it stressful for me.

Causes of stress

Of course, the reaction of the human body in the form of stress does not appear by itself.

Stress occurs for quite objective reasons:

1. A large number of responsibilities that you can not cope with.
2. Impossibility for a long time to rest and sleep off.
3. Poor economic or political situation in the country, so most of the news carry negative information.
4. Quarrel with someone from close people.
5. Negative changes in personal or professional life: betrayal of the second half, dismissal, divorce, demotion, etc.
6. Deterioration of material condition.
7. Obsessive thoughts about past mistakes, unnecessary self-obscuration in the past, wrong perception of negative experience.
8. Prolonged illness and poor health.
9. Procrastination - the permanent postponement of cases until the appearance of a blockage, which is no longer razgrasti.
10. A series of small failures.

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How to deal with stress?

Whatever reasons lead to stress, you should find such a medicine to quickly normalize your body and never suffer from this dirty trick.

The most effective ways to deal with stress are:

1. Healthy sleep and a complete rest of the body.
2. Physical activity, meditation and breathing exercises.
3. Proper nutrition: more vitamins( greens, vegetables, fruits), nuts, fish, liver, cereals, honey, fermented milk products. Less sweets, flour, fatty, roast, smoked.
4. Time planning and scheduling of cases to prevent their accumulation.
5. Learn to "step over" through problems that you are not able to solve.
   Love the proverb "What does not kill us, it makes us stronger" or "There can not be more trials than I can endure."

6. Solve problems until they become unsolvable.

   For example, if the engine of the machine produces a strange sound, you need to immediately go to the car service, rather than wait until the car becomes and in repair will have to invest huge money.

7. Elimination of causes of stress.

   Tired - rest, too many responsibilities - give a part to someone, quarreled with her husband - reconcile, etc.

8. To see the positive even in negative moments.

9. Filter the information you are absorbing.

   You are not responsible for the whole negative of humanity.

10. Believe that everything will be fine with you, because you, like no one, deserve happiness.

Now you know, what is the stress of and, I hope, will not trump this word to the place and out of place.