Stress And Your Brain
Stress is a part of everyday life from managing home life, work and families. Throughout history our bodies have been hard wired to deal with stress. Our early ancestor’s response to stress was the very survival tactic needed to live to see another day. While today many of us are not in any mortal danger, stress takes on a different array of effects upon the human body. The human brain is wired to handle stress that can be beneficial to our development as well as it can be harmful to our health.
Stress on the brain has its good points. Feeling the stress of completing a project on a deadline can motivate to get the job accomplished. Putting goals within a time constraint makes a person strive to achieve. The need to think of solutions where stress on the brain, can bring about solutions that have not been thought of before. Stress can also come in warning the body where a person can feel unease that makes them more aware which could determine the outcome by sending signals to the body to be reactive where thereby reacting quickly enough to avoid an accident.
Stress and the brain have many implications and whereby there is good stress there is also bad. Feeling overloaded with work can lead the brain to feel fatigued or anxious that can lead to depression or insomnia. Stress on the brain can make a person feel like their brain just will not shut off as they worry endlessly about a project due or how a bill will get paid. Stress on the brain can show up many different signals such as a headache caused by tension and perhaps migraine headaches can also be derived from stress as the body is trying to adjust and cope with stress.
The brain is the control center for the body and stress on the brain can attribute to many ailments that include headaches. Tension in the muscles at the base of the neck will lead to stiffness that can end up with a headache that medicine like ibuprofen does not seem to help. Stress on the brain can lead to worry so great that a person will not eat or over eat that leads to eating disorders. Stress can also lead a person to rely on sleeping medication to combat insomnia or experiment with different drugs to numb pain or create an escape that will lead to a drug addiction. But considering that the human brain seems to be wired differently from person to person, stress on the brain can be exhilarating that leads people to search for extreme thrills such as riding a rollercoaster or jumping out of a plane.
However, the one thing that people seem to now agree upon is that stress can be good for the body; too much stress can lead to a multitude of health related problems. When asking centurions the secret of their longevity, the common answer seems to be; don’t let stress get the better of you. So stress on the brain? A little can be a good thing.
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