SAH - Stress and Health Lesson

 

Stress and Health

Stress can lead to illnesses like headaches, and it can make you more vulnerable to disease. When your body is aroused to fight against a stressor, it uses energy that it might otherwise use to fight illnesses or repair tissue, leading to stress-related vulnerability. This makes a person less likely to be healthy. So while stress itself does not cause illness, it does often make people more likely to become ill.

While it's impossible to eliminate stressors from life, it is possible to choose healthy responses to stress in order to avoid many of the health consequences of extreme, prolonged stress.

Discover healthy responses to stress below:

Explore each section in the tabs below to learn more.

Optimist

 

You can choose to look on the bright side.

Choose to be an optimist. This might take some practice, but the health rewards are worth it. While a pessimist assumes that a bad situation will last forever and takes all the blame for the bad situation. An optimist has another way of assessing the situation. An optimist believes things will get better and does not accept all the blame for every bad thing that happens. The next time you get a bad grade or have a fight with a friend, consider rethinking that happened. Will you assume (like a pessimist) that you're someone who won't ever be able to maintain good grades or good relationships? Or will you assume (like an optimist) that life has  hard times but things will get better? Optimistic thinkers are less likely to suffer from heart disease, high blood pressure, and a host of other physical issues.

 

 

 

 

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