how tension can cause mental illness
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How is stress related to mental illness?
Stress results in toxic free radicals and overall inflammation in all parts of the body, and these contribute to (or can directly cause certain) physical and mental illness.
Stress can also act like a trigger and set off hundreds of mental health and physical diseases through the process of epigenetics.
Without intervention (healthy lifestyle changes as diet, exercise, and sleep; use of boundaries, delegation, and other communication tools; scheduling changes; use of relaxation techniques, stress management and stress release tools, etc), stress and therefore disease is self-perpetuating. Stress will further exacerbate existing physical or mental illnesses, increasing the intensity and duration of symptoms and the disorder.
Chronic stress, and stress that is perceived as “never-ending” or where the individual feels hopeless are particularly harmful and more apt to lead to mental or physical illness.
On a positive, it is the perception of a stressor that has a bigger influence on the impact of stress than the actual stress itself, so using healthy stress relief tools and techniques to process and metabolize all your anxious thoughts and chemistry can reduce the effects of stress dramatically.
One of the most helpful mitigators of stress is meditation and other work.
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Stress releases cortisol. In 2013, a study showed that cortisol interferes with the production of dopamine. Dopamine is a brain chemical that affects mood. In fact, there is an entire class of antidepressants which are known as NDRIs, norepinephrine dopamine reuptake inhibitors. Those drugs affect two of the brain chemicals which are essential to proper brain function.
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Stress, if prolonged, can cause serious mental and physical problems. When you are under stress you become vulnerable to many psychological as well as physical problems as more and more resources are being used in coping with your stressors making your body physically and mentally tired. People nowadays encounter different stressors from multiple sources at work, in family or in a relationship. When they are surrounded by so many sources of stress and they do not get sufficient time to relax or release their stress, it is likely that they might develop psychological complexities. For instance, a soldier who is at the battlefield for a prolonged time period, he has a high vulnerability to develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD as we call it. This is because all his resources that he was using to deal with the stress he was going through at the battlefield were exhausted. So, we can say that prolonged or chronic stress is directly connected to mental illness.
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Chronic stress increases the risk of developing depression and anxiety in some people. The precise mechanisms of how stress is linked to mental ill-health are being uncovered. Scientists found that the earliest response to stress happens in the brain within seconds of perceiving a 'stressor'.