Stress helps you meet your daily challenges and motivates you to reach your goals, ultimately making you a smarter, happier, and healthier person. However when you are stressed, what body reactions or clinical manifestations do you often experience? After studying the endocrine system and the stress response, can you explain how these clinical manifestations occur?
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Arduous situations orchestrate changes when stress is the matter. Being within and without, simultaneously ecstatic and repulsed by the indefatigable variety of existence. Not being able to fathom the outlook of refinement in education, souls still wander for the passage that will subjugate them to pursue their fondness for prosperity. For this reason, stress has been the wear and tear of students in the arena of education. The mere existence of this defining facet in the manner of searching for unusual breakthroughs has brought about different elements for the progression of stress.
Personally, when stress overtakes every inch of my being, I usually become irritable. What’s more is that trouble concentrating, pressure, increased heart rate, accelerated breathing, alertness, chest pains, and sometimes anxiety, are also brought into play. The interplay of such reactions are engendered by the body’s built-in fight or flight response when the threat of danger is detected. Anyone can repel the attack or run to safety inevitably due to the expertly timed yet nearly immediate cascade of hormonal changes and physiological reactions (Cleveland Clinic, 2019).
Seeking insight into the true nature of things expels illumination to the perceptions deeply engraved in the dimmed world. As a clear understanding of the topic has been established, I had an epiphany that the hypothalamus resembles a headquarters in certain ways. Through the autonomic nervous system, which regulates such automatic bodily processes like breathing, blood pressure, heartbeat, and the dilation or constriction of important blood arteries and tiny airways in the lungs, this region of the brain interacts with the rest of the body. In consonance with this, the hypothalamus prompts the sympathetic nervous system by conversing with the adrenal glands through the autonomic nerves in response to a distress signal from the amygdala. Epinephrine is released into the bloodstream and numerous physiological changes are brought about as epinephrine moves throughout the body as a response to this consequential process. Blood is pushed to the muscles, heart, and other important organs when the heart beats more quickly than usual. Blood pressure and heart rate increase. Additionally, the individual going through these changes tends to breathe more quickly. The lungs' small airways are quite wide open. The lungs may then inhale as much oxygen as possible with each breath in this way. Ultimately, the brain receives more oxygen, which heightens attentiveness (Harvard Health Publishing, 2020).
Repeatedly triggering the stress reaction wears down the body over time. Deciphering how it works and how to combat it would aid in the achievement of optimal health, making it a huge leap to a healthier lifestyle.
References:
Cleveland Clinic (2019). What Happens to Your Body During the Fight or Flight Response? https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-happens-to-your-body-during-the-fight-or-flight-response/
Harvard Health Publishing (2020). Understanding the stress response. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding-the-stress-response
