Review Article
Year: 2019 | Month: May | Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 199-213
Pathophysiology of Stress: A Review
Dr. Arunima Chaudhuri
Associate Professor Department of Physiology, Rampurhat Government Medical College and Hospital (Affiliated to West Bengal University of Health Sciences), Rampurhat, West Bengal, India.
ABSTRACT
Our over-industrialized and highly competitive metropolitan culture has added up to our stresses at many levels. The media, also in a way, provides certain “constructs” which in their turns create stress and anxiety about our bodies, levels of successes, status, gender roles and other perspectives. Sometimes violence (gendered or otherwise) along with repression, neurosis, loneliness and other psychological factors lessen the wellbeing of an individual, both physically and psychologically. Stress is body’s way of responding to the demand which is caused by both good and bad events/experiences. The body reacts by releasing chemicals in the blood to combat this demand by a complex repertoire of behavioral and physiologic adaptive responses. Stress experiences often lead to various chronic health conditions such as hypertension, coronary heart disease. To make this world a better place to live in we need to make individuals conscious of the fact that the positive health of a person depends on both the body and the mind.
Key words: Stress, Pathophysiology, disease.
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