HomeMy WebLinkAboutGoderich Signal Star, 2017-04-19, Page 13It's not all in your head
11t Feeling
stressed?
Julie Talbot
Special to the Goderich Signal
Star
If you are a living breath-
ing human being, then at
some point in your life you
will have had experiences of
stress.
Often times, we are
stressed and don't recog.-
.nize it as such because it
has become our "normal"
way of being.
We tend to lie to ourselves
all the time by saying "no big
deal" or "suck it up" in
stressful situations and then
we press forward.
Well, our bodies never lie
and at some point, if we do
not acknowledge our stress
level then we will eventually
get sick or injured. Why is
this? Because stress is not all
in our heads -it's a physio-
logical response of the body!
Our life-styles and society
as a whole, have drastically
changed over the past two
centuries, however our bod-
ies have notchanged in
thousands of years.
There are many research
studies, which demonstrate
that our physiology cannot
keep up to the rapidly
changing pace of technology
and that we are all chroni-
cally stressed as a result.
In considering the grow-
ing numbers of individuals
living with stress related ill-
nesses and chronic disease
in Western society, this con-
cept is not hard to imagine.
How many times in a day
do you answer your phone
or text? How often are you
checking Facebook? Are you
still of the thought that
"multi -tasking" is the only
way of being productive?
We seem to have turned
into a society of instant grati-
fication and we have condi-
tioned ourselves to be "on-
call 24/7"
These activities, in excess,
can be damaging to our
health.
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Stress is a physiological
response in the body. When
we experience sometping as
stressful the sympathetic
(fight or flight) part of our
nervous system responds by
sending cortisol and adrena-
line into our blood stream so
we are ready to fight or run
away from that "sabre-
toothed tiger':
1-iowever, most of the
stress We experience today is
perceived stress and not life
or death situations
(hopefully).
What I mean by per-
ceived stress is about how
we think about a situation
that makes us feel stressed
and if we are not able to do
anything about relieving
that stress then the body
holds onto it.
When we don't have the
opportunity to "fight or
flight',' these hormones stay
in our bodies and accumu-
late over time—this is
called chronic stress. See
page 16 for more on this
story.
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