STRESS CASE

Stress Case

Stress Case

Stress

The word stress is derived from Greek stringere, meaning strain. This word was first used in the fourteenth century and thereafter was used in different texts in English and Stress, stress, and Straisse Strest. Stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional reactions that occur when work requirements do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. Work stress can lead to poor health and even injury. The concept of work stress is often confused with challenge, but these concepts are not equal (Maravelas, 2005). Today stress is very important because it affects a large number of people and has many health implications of sufferers. The attention of experts focuses on workplace stress in the mid 1970's, among other things because it diminishes our performance and motivation and can be the source of accidents. Since stress is something we cannot entirely avoid, the best way to cope is to know what it is, recognize it when we are affecting and identify which is what causes the stress, so as to eliminate or mitigate its effects.

Types of Stress

Distress

Stress acts as a motivating factor to succeed and overcome obstacles. You can say that is an element that helps us achieve success, is the fuel to achieve our ambitions. This level could be called normal and desirable simply as stress. But that level may be exceeded becoming potentially harmful, such a state being able to differentiate the name from? Distress?. The differentiation between stress and distress that has been done in this section, highlights the difference between a normal and necessary condition vs. one that exceeds these limits. But throughout the work, except a few exceptions, the word stress is used to describe what we have defined as distress. Acute stress

Acute stress is the product of intense aggressive (even violent) physical or emotional, time-limited but exceeds the threshold of the subject, resulting in a response also intense, rapid and often violent. When acute stress has come to a response which can cause stomach bleeding ulcers as well as cardiovascular disorders. In people with high risk factors may have a heart attack in situations of this kind. Chronic stress

When stress occurs in chronic, long time, continuous, not necessarily strong, but requiring ongoing adaptation, it reaches beyond the subject's resistance threshold to trigger the so-called diseases of adaptation. This means that when the body is over stimulated, depleting the individual physiological norms, stress becomes distress. Chronic stress can be either continuous prolonged exposure to external stressors (as in professions such as journalists, executives, pilots or doctors) or chronic conditions or prolonged stress response (as in subjects with depression and stress posttraumatic).

Causes of Stress

As we will see throughout this section, the stress can come from many sources. So, we will discuss briefly the main. First, the cause of stress can be a physical such as noise, lack of light, heat, cold, wind, air pollution, vibration and movement, shift work. Another source of stress is work overload, ie when ...