Stress And Its Consequences

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

There is practically no person on earth who has not become acquainted with stress. Stress can be different: the loss of a loved one, an accident, a serious illness, unrequited love, divorce, war and its consequences. I would like to paraphrase Leo Tolstoy and say: "All happy people are happy in the same way, every unhappy person is unhappy in his own way." And this is really so, because the danger lies not in the stress itself, but in its consequences.

Mental trauma (this is another name for stress) is life events that lead to mental damage, which, in turn, lead to impairment of various functions: from memory impairment, impairment of vision and hearing to the inability to communicate with people. Heavy, negative, but very strong traumatic emotions "suck" a person into their "swamp". Having experienced some kind of extreme situation, at a certain point in time, a person gets stuck in it emotionally, without realizing it. Very often, mental trauma "lives" in a person for years and guides him like a whip. "Whip" can be expressed in the form of obsessive memories and dreams, unexplained actions and actions, identifying oneself with the troubles of loved ones, stopping the development of personality, going into destructive states: drugs, alcohol, suicide.

All this leads not only to the destruction of the personality, but has a huge negative impact on the physical health of a person. The nervous system responds by increasing arousal and depleting physical strength. First of all, the peripheral nervous system suffers and leads to metabolic disorders, cardiovascular system, physical or sexual development.

As a rule, in everyday life, this is expressed in the absence of a positive attitude and the prevalence of unwillingness to change something in your life.

• Emotions not fully experienced cause a constant headache.
• Dramatically changing mood: from a depressive state to hysterical excitement.
• Bad sleep: the inability to fall asleep, or vice versa, the inability to get enough sleep. Superficial (very light) sleep.
• Acute reaction to criticism, resentment, cry.
• Inability to plan and predict tomorrow.
• Low efficiency and lack of motivation to develop, accept new information.
• The presence of fears, anxiety, complexes.

If you see these symptoms in your loved ones, know they need help!

To help a person who has experienced stress, it is necessary to create conditions for the restoration, first of all, of physical health. The first steps, no matter how trivial they may seem: are a balanced diet and regular sleep (at first, for example, taking sedatives on the recommendation of a doctor), daily walks in the fresh air, taking vitamins and exercise.

But all this only contributes to the restoration of the physical resource of the body. To improve the emotional background, changing activities helps a lot. It can be a new hobby, renovating an apartment, traveling, a new sport, reading a book … In a word, something that did not exist before in our life. And of course the support of loved ones, their attention, patience and, most importantly, acceptance. Words: “Never mind! It can be much worse! Is this a problem? do not calm down, but on the contrary devalue a person's grief. Even just listening, without advising anything, you will be of invaluable benefit!

But for the complete recovery and recovery of the personality, professional help from a psychologist or psychotherapist is needed. Only with its help, a person will be able to safely and gradually get rid of the influence of past traumatic situations, change their attitude towards them and use them as a huge experience in their future life!