The term stress as we apply it to human feelings was introduced by Hans Selye. Stress affects your health directly and causes your fight-or-flight response to flood your bloodstream. In turn, your blood sugar levels are raised. The engineering term is used to describe physical materials and how they react when force, or stress, is applied to them. Scientists studying stress found the causes are not the same for all of us, but the essential characteristics of an event are...
Novelty - entering into a strange situation with fear of the unknown
Unpredictability - not knowing what to expect
Threat to the ego - will the self be able to handle things?
Sense of Control - the fear of not being able to make decisions and carry them out.
When you are stressed, your body produces more of some hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol. Cortisol increases your blood sugar levels to prepare you for a fight or flight response. Type 2 diabetes and stress appear to be related.
According to an investigation performed at the Dalian Medical University and several other research institutions in China, stress at work raises the risk of Type 2 diabetes in women. Their project reported on in August of 2016 in the online journal PLOS ONE, combined seven earlier studies and analysed them as if they were one large study. The combination included 214,086 participants and 5,511 Type 2 diabetics. Although no significant association was found for men, women with employed in stressful work had a 22 percent higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes than women who were in low-stress positions.
Do women have more stress at work? Does stress affect women on a higher level or differently from the way it affects men? More research will provide the answers. In the meantime, find ways of lowering stress...
leave work-related problems at work,
soak in a warm bath after you get home,
get out and walk it off,
play with your dog. We can learn a great deal from our dogs about living in the present.
reach out for help to your spouse or partner,
read funny books or watch comedies,
go to a gym and work up a sweat for an hour. You'll be too busy trying to breathe to worry about work stress.
do something you like.
Other health problems related to stress include...
headaches,
chest pain,
muscle pain,
stomach pain or indigestion,
heart disease,
high blood pressure,
heart disease,
depression,
anxiety,
insomnia,
low libido,
difficulty focusing,
anger,
changes in appetite,
tobacco, alcohol, or other drug use,
low motivation,
social withdrawal,
leading a sedentary lifestyle.
If your stress is ongoing, get help.
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