physical stress
Symptoms of Stress
It’s cold and flu season. Well, why not. It’s the beginning of November, and besides THEY all say it’s the cold and flu season. You can read about it everywhere.
But you are smart. You know there is no cold and flu season. You even wonder why people talk about the festpool of germs that come out only during this “season”. Germs don’t come out in the summer—they go on vacation, just like everyone else. And in the springtime they’re too busy raising their little germ babies to infect and feed on you. They’re going to attack you during “the season”.
So what is everyone getting so excited about during this “cold and flu” season? We all get excited about this season every year—like Christmas or your birthday coming around again.
I’ll tell you why. To get you ready. To prepare you for battle against those pesky germs.
Here’s what they say:
“A cold may last for about one week, but some colds last longer in children, elderly people, and those in poor health. In the United States, colds account for more visits to the doctor than any other condition, according to the CDC. Adults get an average of two to four colds per year, mostly between September and May. Young children suffer from an average of six to eight colds per year since the cold is highly contagious.
“Influenza — an infection of the respiratory system caused by the influenza virus — is more severe than the common cold.?Flu illness impacts your daily life leading to school absents, days off from work and complications such as pneumonia requiring hospitalization.”
Now, are you ready for the cold and flu season? And of course, their remedy is avoid contagious people (negative people?), wash your hands (not a bad idea), and yes, get the flu shot (this is how to get the germ directly into your body, past your natural defenses, to produce, yes, the flu).
But wait, here’s the real story: Germs are opportunistic. They set up housekeeping in a host that is run down and cannot kick it out. They love a person with STRESS, who cannot rage an immune war against them.
Physical stress.
Nutritional stress.
Emotional stress.
The body has it’s own immune system and cannot function well with these kinds of stress.
Colds and flus are sure signs of stress. Not sure about this? Think about the “cold and flu season” as a change in many events in your life. Weather, temperature, school or work functions, daylight, nightlight, food, are all fairly constant changes for most people during this time of the year.
But look at your many other personal changes: rest, sleep, hydration, exercise status, emotional status, and nutritional status. Are these all being attended to? These should be kept constant all year round. These are the elements that need attention for you to be well. When you are well, germs will pass you by and look for someone less well off to set up house.
The contagiousness of symptoms and disease has more to do with the HOST than it does with the microbe, the germ.
A problem with “catching germs” from someone sick is that most of the time they violate Koch’s Postulates. Remember high school biology?
1.The germ which causes a disease must be found in every case of the disease under the conditions which could explain the disease.
2. The germ must not be found in other diseases or healthy people.
3. The germ could be isolated and used to induce an experimental disease in animals which resembles the original disease in humans.
You get a cold and flu because your body is run down with STRESS. Your drippy nose, watery eyes, coughs, muscle aches, tiredness, fatigue, and chest pain, are all signs of STRESS. Take the moment to look at your situation. You have violated one or more principles of health. Time to rest, eat better, avoid ‘those people’.
Don’t do the things that are unnatural for your body. You know what they are. Don’t violate the rules of health. It’s you; you’re the host. Are you a good host?
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Infertility and Psychological Stress
The belief that infertility is a psychologically mediated condition is long-standing. As an example, the Bible (1 Sam 1:1-28) describes Hannah, wife of Elkanah, as despondent and anorexic; she conceives only after she prays and is promised by a high priest that her wish will be granted.
As health care professionals developed the ability to diagnose and treat most cases of infertility, they began to view it as an organic condition. Some infertility patients were told that their stress level had nothing to do with their ability to become pregnant and some health professionals did not assess the psychological status of their patients. However, there is evidence that stress levels influence the outcome of infertility treatment, as well as contribute to patients’ decisions to continue treatment. Stress also affects patients’ reactions to pregnancy loss during infertility treatment and pregnancy complications. Moreover, psychological distress is associated with treatment failure and interventions to relieve stress are associated with increased pregnancy rates.
Stress is defined as a stimulus which produces mental tension or physiological reaction, for the purposes of this review, the experience of infertility is the stimulus. Distress is the experience of anxiety or suffering, for the purposes of this review, the experience of infertility leads to the suffering.
Clinically, the provider can assess stress by observation of the patient and inquiring about the patient’s emotional state. Research shows that the main sources of stress for infertility patients are the impact of infertility on their social life, their sexual health, and their relationships with their partner. Thus, questions which ask about each of these areas are recommended.
Psychological stress appears to be more common in the partner with the fertility problem. The prevalence of psychological stress in infertility patients was illustrated in a study that used a psychiatrist to conduct structured personal interviews with 112 infertile women who were being seen for their first infertility clinic visit prior to medical evaluation. Forty percent of the patients met the criteria for a psychiatric disorder; the most common diagnosis was an anxiety disorder (23 percent), followed by major depressive disorder (17 percent).
The level of stress in infertility patients tends to increase as treatment intensifies and as duration of treatment continues. Therefore, a population of in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients would be expected to experience more stress than women early in their infertility evaluation.
Many IVF patients report depressive symptoms prior to beginning their cycle, which likely reflects the impact of repeated, unsuccessful, less invasive forms of treatment, but may reflect a prior history of mood/anxiety disorders independent of infertility.
Since IVF is highly invasive and intensive, patient distress is not unanticipated. In fact, most IVF patients state that treatment is more of a psychological than a physical stressor. Nearly half of female IVF patients reported that infertility was the most upsetting experience of their lives. Most IVF patients report symptoms of depression, anxiety, anger, and isolation after unsuccessful treatment.
Since IVF is by far the most expensive and invasive form of infertility treatment, it is important to understand the impact of psychological distress on its outcome. It is concerning that the majority of patients report symptoms of anxiety and/or depression prior to commencing IVF treatment. If psychological distress can interfere with the success of treatment, and most patients report elevated levels of distress, then the impact of distress may be important.
As discussed above, distress is one reason that couples drop out of IVF programs before achieving a pregnancy.
Psychological interventions lead to a decrease in psychological symptoms and appear to increase pregnancy rates. The optimal approach to psychological intervention has not been determined. We suggest relaxation techniques, stress-management, coping skills training, and group support. Evaluation by a psychiatrist for consideration of pharmacotherapy is indicated in women with significant symptoms of anxiety or depression.
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Procrastination Psychology
Procrastination is a habit of not getting things done and delaying them. It can also be defined as “task aversion”. Procrastination is very difficult to understand. Many theories have been put forward to explain procrastination psychology, its results and its causes. Every one of us procrastinates at one point of time or the other, but still no two people give the same reason to procrastinate. Thus, procrastination psychology is relative.
Procrastination literally means to delay an action for an irrational time span. When our moms asked us to clean our room, or your teachers asked you to read the novel or our bosses asked us to complete the file, we all came up with the same answer, “not today, I will do it tomorrow”. It is procrastination psychology, when you know, you have to do the task, you can’t avoid it, and still you delay it for no reason. There can be reasons that you procrastinate, because you don’t like the task or the task is very difficult for you or it is very boring. But you must understand, it is all in your hands. If the task is boring, you make it interesting. For example, if your mother has given you a task of cleaning the room, which is very boring, you can always switch on some music in the background or if you find the task very difficult, you can always take the help of a friend or older sibling.
Procrastination psychology is very strange. It empowers us and keeps us stuck in “inaction”, but our mind is continuously working. We can’t afford to forget about the tasks, which we are not able to accomplish. Therefore, we suffer from mental stress. Mental stress is more severe than physical stress and that is the reason, most of the people who procrastinate, also suffers from depression.
We can say that the psychology behind procrastination is “Tomorrows favor “. In simple words, whatever task given to be completed, is never completed at that time, instead always waiting for “tomorrow”, to get it finished. As we all know, tomorrow never comes; the tasks get piled up, increasing the workload, ultimately leading to a severe problem.
One should remain focused, when it comes to finishing a task. It can really prove to be helpful. Time is very precious. Try and learn to value it. When you learn to value something, only then you can realize its importance. If that day comes maybe then you will quit your habit of procrastinating.
If you are setting and reading this article and you know you are a procrastinator then let that be the beginning of ending your procrastination.
Start by clicking below for more information on procrastination psychology and how to end it once and for all, you will see that accomplishing such a simple task will not hurt you and you will have completed the task of getting started.
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