What are the models of stress and coping?

Answer 1

Type of Stress: Acute Stress

Type of Stress can also be defined as an acute stress or chronic stress (Long Term).Acute stress is the reaction to an immediate threat, commonly known as the fight or flight response. The threat can be any situation that is experienced, even subconsciously or falsely, real or imaginary as a danger. The person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others. The person's response involved intense fear, helplessness, or Horror. Common acute stressors include but not limited to following:

• Immediate noise (which can trigger a stress response even during sleep)
• Some people feel acute stress in excessive crowding or in rush.
• Some people feel acute stress in Isolation
• Some people feel acute stress during hunger
• Immediate danger it can be real or only product of mind may produce acute stress
• Infection
• High technology effects like playing Video Games, frequently ringing mobile phones, high noise
• Imagining a threat or remembering a dangerous event
• Death or serious injury, sexual abuse, child abuse

Generally speaking in most events of acute stress, ones threat passed, the reaction becomes deactivated and level of stress hormones return to normal. This condition is called the relaxation reactions. The disturbance lasts for a minimum of 2 days and a maximum of 4 weeks but in some cases threat has Passed but stress will remain. It can be happen in case of child abuse, some social adverse conditions, sexual abuse, death of loved one, betrayal from loved one and it convert in chronic stress….. Type of Stress: Chronic Stress

In some cases events of acute stress passed, threats were gone but stress will remain then it is expose to more complications and become chronic stress which generate more disturbance in body and mind. In prehistoric times, the physical changes in response to stress were an essential adaptation for meeting natural threats. Even in the modern world, the stress response can be an asset for raising levels of performance during critical events such as a sports activity, an important meeting, or in situations of actual danger or crisis.

If stress becomes persistent and low-level, however, all parts of the body's stress apparatus (the brain, heart, lungs, vessels, and muscles) become chronically over- or under-activated. Such chronic stress may produce physical or psychological damage over time. Acute stress can also be harmful in certain situations, particularly in individuals with preexisting heart conditions.

Chronic stress also may result in other physical ailments such as tension headaches, muscle spasms, gastrointestinal problems, and elevated blood pressure. It can also lead to fatigue, depression, and a sense of hopelessness.

The role of psychological chronic stress seems as obvious. The brain structures involved in stress can affect the production of key hormones in the body, suppress the body's immune system, and activate the autonomic nervous. These are the same biological changes that may occur from physical stresses on the body-the body may not differentiate between physical and psychological stress. The net effects of these changes on the body are to lower our internal resistance to pain, thus further encouraging the chronic pain cycle.

Many sources of stress feed into the chronic stress cycle. First off, as you would expect, stress itself is stressful. stress sensations are perceived as undesirable and are at very least annoying. Chronic stress creates tension, both physical and emotional. Physical tension may show itself as muscle tension or affect the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, or immune systems. Emotional tension may reveal itself as anger, frustration, worry, depression, or frustration. Both physical and emotional tension, initially set in motion by stress, worsen stress. Thus the vicious cycle of chronic stress begins- leads to tension and tension leads to more chronic stress.

Common chronic stressors include:

• On-going highly pressured work in modern time and competitive world
• Long-term relationship problems with spouse or relatives
• Loneliness is major cause of chronic stress.
• Persistent financial worries is major cause of chronic stress
• Depression of depressive thoughts along with anxiety real or imaginary are lead to painful chronic stress
• One cycle of depression and chronic stress start, chronic stress lead to more depression and depression lead to more stress and worsen the situation
• Inability to control emotion is major source of chronic stress
  
  coping with stress
  
  There is lot of talk about coping with stress and more tips and techniques then we need. You suffer from stress lot and try most of tips and techniques but what I want to say here is, If you want to coping with stress then you must change yourself nothing else can relieve you from stress permanently. Please make note here medication will help you some extent to relieve from stress but it is not permanent solution.
  Now you must make one more note here is that you must not stop ,decrease or change any medication without consult your family physician because coping with stress by changing your self may take some time and lot effort from your side so you must take medication prescribe to you and gradually start efforts to change your self. In the process regularly consult your physician and change or decrease medication under his able observation
  
  Now come to point about coping with stress what I am going to tell may not mentioned in any books but these are time tested principles which never let you down. Please note that stress can manage via medication, exercise, yoga, meditation we will talk about it in separately but point is exercise may fine with someone and help and no effect on other one same true with medication, yoga, mediation. One more thing they are not helping you to coping with stress permanently.

• Now you wonder I have some magic stick to coping with stress but that is not case. It demand much more effort because any change made by us in our habits, schedule, thinking resisted by body and mind. Now let us come to point

  • Try to remain neutral in every situation arise. Means in happy situation don’t be over exited and in sad situation don’t be so much sad. Accept both situation as a part of life and two side of coin
  • Eradicate every bit of anger you have from life, yourself, spouse, boss, colleagues or xyz. Just say bye to agitation.
  • Accept principle of high thinking and simple living. You must try your best to achieve you goal but never blame your self or situations around you. If you fail then accept it as a part and parcel of the life.
  • Money is one of most important factor in life but not only one so tries your best to earn it but never be mad for it.
  • Never ever blame your self or situation or people around you for failure, accept it in good spirit and never stop trying
  • To coping with stress you must eradicate every bit of jealousy you have for your friends, colleagues or anyone because it doesn’t harm anyone but yourself. It will eat you.
  • Helping other who are in need if possible
  • To coping with stress you must accept that you are unique individual in world and like everyone you have some good and some bad points
  • To copping with stress you must leave any addiction like cigarette ,tobacco, alcohol ,drugs
  • Getting early from bad and leave early for bad
  • To coping with stress you must start from your self. Never demand from world to change for you but you much change for better
  • Never erase line of other but draw you line big

  These are the principles you can trust to coping with stress. One eastern proverb is “control your self and you will be control the world”