Describing the Interaction of the Components of the Autonomic Nervous System in a Relation to the Stress Response

Crisis is an event that is unplanned, unwanted, and dangerous and leads to hard decision making. There are many different types of crisis such as economic crisis, mental health crisis, situational crisis, social crisis, adventitious crisis and many more. Every type of crisis affects people more than we think and know. There is always someone who loses and who gains during a crisis. People who lose are usually the ones who are affected the most such as losing a job, losing a family member or someone close to them, losing their homes and sometimes even their own lives. The people who gain are usually the rich people who prey on the poor and usually gain from making money and the poor’s lives miserable.

Autonomic Nervous System is a control system that controls body function such as heart rate, respiratory rate, salivation, digestion, perspiration, pupillary dilation, sexual arousal, breathing, and swallowing. The ANS is affected by crisis in so many ways because whenever we have something unexpected happen our body reacts to it in so many different ways. Usually crisis is a bad things and our body reacts to it before we can think about it. It makes our blood pressure rise, heart rate rise, make our breathing difficult and basically mess with our whole body function system.

This paper will be presented in three different parts and the first part will begin with the definition of crisis and Autonomic Nervous System, and how the crisis affects the Autonomic Nervous System. Second this paper will explain in detail what the crisis and Autonomic Nervous System. How the Autonomic Nervous System works and all the different consequences of the ANS during a crisis? And at the end will be all the review all the crisis and autonomic nerv...

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