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Types of Stress
Acute stress Episodic acute Chronic stress
stress
Definition Frequently
Most common type experience of Most harmful type
acute stress
Causes 1. Negative
caused by aversive
thoughts In pressured
experience in
2. events situation or they
childhood or
that have are unorganized in
traumatic
recently their life
experiences in life
occurred
Affects lifestyle Makes the affected
Brain, body and
constantly prone to
emotion
hazardous stress.
Symptom for Acute Stress
➢ Emotional distress
➢ Muscular distress (tension, headache, back pain, jaw pain, pulled muscles)
➢ Immune system compromise
➢ Cognitive distress (compromised attention / concentration & mental
fatigue)
People with chronic stress have chronic signs and symptoms that can result in
physical and mental breakdown that can lead to;
Heart attacks,
Psychosis
strokes
EFFECT OF STRESS
MIND BODY BEHAVIOUR EMOTIONS
Worrying, muddled Headaches, Accident prone, Loss of
thinking, impaired frequent loss of appetite, confidence,
judgement infections, fatigue, loss of sex drive, fussier,
breathlessness insomnia, irritability,
smoking more. depression.
This can lead to chest pain The build-up of fatty deposits in Heart failure - this means
(angina) or a heart attack. your arteries (atherosclerosis) the heart muscle cannot
can lead to high blood pressure. pump blood around the
Over time, CHD can also body properly. It is not a
weaken the heart muscle and heart attack
contribute to heart failure
and arrhythmias.