With the high pressure and fast-paced lives that people live, it leads to many family and job responsibilities. The major causes of stress include money, work and economy. There are also stress-related habits that are unhealthy and they include eating unhealthy foods and overeating. The technological innovations and the demands from the daily life lead to stress. All people have to live with stress but if it not controlled well it has profound effects on the body and the mind. Individuals need to gain control of their lives and develop mental strength to curb stress coming from different areas of life.
Stress does not arise from only unpleasant things or aggravating events. It also arises from positive happenings like being pregnant, getting married, winning an election or starting anew job. The chronic exposures to stress hormones damage the body and can lead to depression and eventually death. Stress contributes greatly to the development of blood pressure and heart disease that is why the heart programs incorporate stress management courses (Rossi et al, 148). Elevated blood pressure is a condition resulting because of stress. Too much pressure with no skills to reduce the stress makes the person’s blood pressure to increase.
Stress lowers the immunity of individuals and they make people susceptible many different infections. For example, when a person has stress, he/she is prone to a headache and if it continues for a prolonged period, it leads to migraine. Stress can also alter the course of an existing disease if a person already has one. Stress causes the common headaches, stomachaches, sleep loss, diarrhea and loss of sex drive. Skin doctors have concluded that skin conditions like the eczema and hives are because of stress (Rice, 140). The stress effect moves blood away from the skin to support the muscles and heart tissues. Persistent stress may lead the patient to get involved in accidents because the mind is preoccupied with the thoughts of the event causing the stress. This is common in work place.
Uncontrolled stress leads to a heightened level of dysfunction. It results to increased anxiety and depression. It makes the person prone to psychiatric disorders. When a person suffers stress for a long period without a proper way to control it, the patient may end up becoming mad. Stress has many signs, which include sleep disturbance, digestive upsets, agitated behavior, dizziness, general restlessness, sweaty palms, nervousness, fatigue, confusion, irritation, feeling overworked, lack of concentration and poor work relations at work.
Stress influences the society from the homes to the work place. It is important that business management students because learn this topic because they will learn ways to cope with the stress at their workplace. The students will become managers in institutions and by learning about stress, they get equipped with skills on stress management. The students learn to focus on the positive things in life and they restructure their activities (Matta, 97). The students get knowledge on the picture of how the workplace is really like. Understanding stress and its impacts is very important in the society. The busy day and age has many stressors and the society must learn about stress. This enables them to learn ways to reduce and conquer the amounts of stress and this eventually leads to a healthy society. It also protects people in the society in many instances by allowing the body to react quickly to adverse events and situations. This fight-or-flight response helps to keep the human beings in the society alive when the environment demands quick reactions in response to the situations or events.
Works Cited
Matta, Christy. The Stress Response: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Free You from Needless Anxiety, Worry, Anger & Other Symptoms of Stress. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2012. Print.
Rice, Virginia H. Handbook of Stress, Coping, and Health: Implications for Nursing Research, Theory, and Practice. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2012. Print.
Rossi, Ana M, James C. Quick, and Pamela L. Perrewe. Stress and Quality of Working Life: The Positive and the Negative. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Pub, 2009. Print.
