American Psychological Association
https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/stress-kinds.aspx
3 types of stress
Acute stress(fight or flight)
Most common
Comes from demands and pressures of the recent past and anticipated demands and pressures of the near future.
Recognized by most people.
Most common symptoms are:
- Emotional distress — some combination of anger or irritability, anxiety and depression, the three stress emotions.
- Muscular - tension headache, back, jaw pain and the muscular tensions that lead to pulled muscles and tendon and ligament problems.
- GI - gerd
Episodic acute stress
These ppl are always in a rush, but always late.
Short-tempered, irritable, anxious and tense.
Often they see nothing wrong with how they conduct their lives. Blame it on other people and external events.
Resistant to change.
Most common symptoms are:
- persistent tension headaches, migraines, HTN, chest pain & heart disease
Chronic stress
This is the grinding stress that wears people away year after year.
stress of poverty, dysfunctional families, of being trapped in an unhappy marriage or in a despised job or career, traumatic childhood experiences that become internalized and remain forever painful and present.
This can affect personality.
People get used to it.
People are immediately aware of acute stress because it is new; they ignore chronic stress because it is old, familiar, and sometimes, almost comfortable.
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