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Stress and Depression
There are two kinds of stress: acute and chronic. An acute stressor is one that occurs suddenly and is over promptly . You witness an acutestress response when you are in emergent danger. When stress is chronic, the stress keeps coming instead of being concluded. A chronicstressor is a problem that doesnt change much over the short term, like not making enough money to support yourself and your family.Our bodies are geared toward handling acute stressors. For example, when you are crossing the road and a car speeds up to you, you feel an acute stress response. Your heart beats quickly, and you suddenly feel frightened . The purpose of this response is to get you to reactquickly so that you can get out of the way of the car. For a couple of minutes after youve averted the accident, you may feel keyed up,and it may take awhile for your heartbeat and breathing to return to normal, but within a few minutes you calm down.
People are at risk for depression following either a severely stressful life event or a severe,chronic stressor. Certain kinds of chronic stressorsare more likely than others to result in depression. The kind of stress that leads to depression is one that varies in intensity . The circumstances could be bad for a few days, then improve , and then get much worse again. These periods of improvement and worsening areunpredictable . A person never knows when he wakes up in the morning how stressful his day is going to be.
When stress is chronic but abrupt as well as variable in intensity , the stress reaction system has no chance to shut down. Whenever it beginsto shut down, something new occurs to instill another stress response. When it does not shut down, our bodies continue to produce cortisol,the hormone that is connected with stress. After a few days of having a lot of cortisol in our system, we begin to feel tired, helpless, and dejected .....read more.
