✓ Do you know consequences of stress on your body and mind?
✓ Do you know how dangerouse negative stress can be on your health?
✓ Do you know which are the most typical pathologies related to stress somatization?
Stress is a daily aspect of the life of all individuals and is associated with negative events that can affect physical and mental health.
It is often referred to a threat or danger, whether real or implied, so the stress response is often defined as the set of physiological and behavioral activations that are implemented by an organism to deal with it that tend to alter the natural balance.
Such response to stress is characterized by an integrated multisystem activation that involves various systems, from the central nervous one to the autonomic, from the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to the immune/inflammatory axis.
These are some of the main disorders you should know, to take your health under control:
1. Sleep disorder: The long-term effects are dramatic for the individual, such as insomnia, mental disorders (depression and anxiety), and various somatic pathologies, particularly affecting the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Chronic insomnia represents a factor of risk for the health.
2. Dermatological disorders (Chronic urticarial, Atopic dermatitis, Psoriasis): skin diseases are frequent and can present with various symptoms and signs such as pain, itching, burning, blistering, pigmentation, or discoloring of the skin, thickening of the skin, loss of hair or eyebrows. All this can lead to a heavy load of suffering, disability and seriously influence the lives of affected people
3. Eating disorders: it can happen to eat not by hunger, but in response to feelings and emotions, particularly anger or stress. These are episodes of emotional eating, consisting of a loss of control, and the body no longer dictates what and how much to eat, but this is led by the emotions experienced at that moment. Some of the most frequent emotions associated with Emotional Eating are: Anger, Despair, Lack of control, Not feeling appreciated, Boredom
4. Gastrointestinal complaints (Esophageal, Gastroduodenal, Intestinal, Functional abdominal pain syndrome, Biliary, Anus-rectal): this dysfunctions cause morbidity and very relevant socio-sanitary costs, so the Functional Gastro-Intestinal Disorders (FGIDs) are often neglected by most doctors, with the result of keeping a significant symptomatic expression and high suffering in the patient, related to the lack of understanding of the disorder itself.
5. Cardiovascular disorders: exposure to chronic stress is considered the most harmful risk factor, because it could produce long-term and/or permanent changes in physiological, emotional, and behavioral responses, influencing susceptibility to develop the disease. Some of the psychosocial risk factors are low socio-economic level, social isolation and lack of social support, work and family stress, depression, anxiety, hostility and anger, type D personality (Distressed).
6. Pain system disorders...
7. Immune system disorders...
8. Infertility...
9. Allergy...
...and much more to know!
