Internal Stress Vs External Stress

There are two form of stressor namely; External and Internal stressor. External stressor are stress that originates from the environment, while internal stressor stem from illness or medical events. Stress is also associated to how individuals observe the world and anxieties that it can bring.

This stress is recognized as the “Fight or Flight” response. This response effects the neurologic and endocrinologic responses in your body that can affect your health.

The “fight or flight” reaction is a physical responses that stem from the response of a potential harmful experience, attack or threat to survival. When our fight or flight reaction is triggered, sequences of nerve cells react and chemicals such as adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol

are released into our bloodstream. The nerve cell reactions can cause our body to endure a range of intense changes to our health and everyday lives. Individual’s respiratory rate can increase because of possible threats. Blood is forced away from our digestive tracks and forces the blood to be immersed into ones muscles and limbs. This causes additional fuel for running and fighting. Our awareness strengthens and makes our pupils to dilate and our sight to intensify. Our bodies become physically and psychologically prepared for the “Fight or Flight” reaction. Our body's stress-response organism is typically self-limiting. Hormone levels return to normal when the perceived threat has passed. When adrenaline and cortisol levels decrease heart rate and blood pressure return normal levels. But, when stressors are often presented, the “Fight or Flight” reaction and will remain on. Overexposure to cortisol and stress hormones can cause serious issues on the way your body processes the threat of health. You can be a potential risk for the resulting health problems. Anxiety, Digestive problems, Depression, heart disease and even memory and concentration impairments.
Cortisol is the hormone that promotes energy, improves alertness, and improves our immunity. Cortisol is the substance of the whole endocrine system. If cortisol remains too high for a long period of time it can have effects on one’s body. Aches and pains, brain fog, allergies, reoccurring illness, low blood pressure, low stress tolerance, apprehension, irritability, hypoglycemia, frequent nausea, autoimmune infections, excessive perspiring, teeth grinding, restless leg syndrome, hot flashes and insomnia are all possible health risk.
Stress is usually thought of negatively. But it can transform itself in a positive way and a negative way. A positive stress is when a situation offers an opportunity for one to possibly be able to obtain something. This “good kind” of stress has been named eustress. Eustress is an eager reply to stress that produces within us a desire to accomplish and overcome a challenge. In short, this type of stress causes us to have positive moods and makes us feel good about ourselves. It is often viewed as motivator. This is what we need to be motivated, challenged and productive. But sometimes eustress becomes unbearable or not manageable. When this feeling occurs it is called distress.
Distress (also known as bad stress) is when the good stress begins to become too much to handle.

Pressure starts to take a toll on us and the challenge seems to present no relief. This from of stress is what we are most familiar with. Just about any change in the environment- even a pleasing change can create strains to make us learn to cope, and a small amount of stress can be useful in helping us to learn to adapt. But, there is a fine line when that stress can become a ‘distress’. Pressure starts to take a toll on us and the challenges from everyday life seems to present no relief. This type of stress is what we are most commonly familiar with. Side effects of this physiological organism can cause various health effects on our bodies. Distress can create a rise in blood pressure, quick breathing and generalized tension. Distress can even cause behavioral symptoms such as, but not limited to, overeating, loss of appetite, drinking and smoking. Side effects of this physiological organism can cause numerous health effects on our bodies.

Minor stress, even when short-lived can take a toll on one’s health. More major stress issues can have an even greater effect on our health. There have been much research on studies that have proven to show that sudden emotional stress is linked to heart attacks, ulcers cardiovascular disease and even cancer. Stress can become more dangerous and can affect your ability to live a full filled. The more extensive the stress, the worse it can become

for your mind and body. Stress can also force existing health issues more of a challenge. You began to feel tired and irritable, and unable to concentrate.
The behavioral, cognitive and an individual’s emotional ability to be manage stress is known as coping.

Learning to cope with stress can greatly help your stress level. Your reactions to an event regulate its impact, it’s continually conceivable to reduce the amount of weight you may feel from that stress. When you determine the personal impact of stress it is called primary appraisal. We need to learn to take time to think the stress through and decide how we will respond and the significance of it. This process is called secondary appraisal. The energy you dedicate to relaxing and acquiring new stress management skills will always be a benefit in the quality of your physical and emotion focused coping. Learning to relax and thinks stressors through is a great technique when learning to deal with problem focused coping. This is the substance which all the other stress management skills are built upon. If we learn the ability to cope then out stress levels will and can remain low. We will be able to assess our current situation and without stopping we will be able to gain insight on how we are being affected. Managing the many conflicts of stress can be a critical tool in our everyday

lives.