Stress and its Aftermaths

Abstract

Stress is a normal psychological and physical reaction
to increasing demands of our life. People experience
challenges with stress at some point during their life.
Our brain has an alarm system that provides us protection.
When our brain perceives a threat, it signals the body
to release a burst of hormones in order to generate the
response. This is called the "fight-or-flight" response.
Once such a situation is over the body returns to it`s
normal state. However, today residing in a modernized
world alarm bell scarcely is turned off rather we can
say the bell keeps on ringing off and on. Continuous or
high levels of stress can have bad impact on our lives
and therefore we should take care of it before it can
progress to point of no return.Thus stress can be defined
as the brain's response to any demand. It can be stimulated
by various triggers that may be real or just the imagination
of a person such as daily routines as going to school or
work every day, looking after the matters of home,
helping children in doing homework etc. and they could
be more serious things like death, diseases, accidents
etc. Moreover it could be violence and unrest prevailing
in the environment of our society leading to emotional
and physical trauma and distress.1