When it comes to managing stress; Other stress related health problems include dealing with emotional and mental conditions such as depression and anxiety. Managing stress is needed when a person goes under emotional stress, it can go either way with the individual becoming hyper social or as in others, would completely withdraw and remove themselves from any social interaction. Either way, most people who experience either one of these social phenomena, reports that it becomes very lonely. In this article, you’ll learn how you can manage other health conditions through managing stress.
Changing Moods
A person who is under constant stress is pretty much always on the defensive, a person operating under this condition for a prolonged period of time without respite can begin showing signs of mood swings and behavioral changes. People under the constant strain of challenging situations could have unknowingly “modified” their systems to adapt to the hyper-drive they have gotten used to, putting further strain on an already frayed health system.
Apart from the aforementioned diseases, other medical conditions that can come about because of stress would be digestive illnesses. When a person is under stress, they often describe sensations in the pit of their stomachs that make it feel as if their guts are being ripped out or they describe a sinking sensation.
Fight or Flight
When stress activates the fight or flight response the nervous system shuts down the blood flow to the body’s digestive system. Stress affects how your stomach muscles contract. It also decreases its ability to digest because of the lack of secretions needed to do so. Long term, chronic stress can cause some people’s gastrointestinal system to become inflamed making them more susceptible to infection.
When a person is under stress, the esophagus goes into spasms and stress causes the increase of acid production in the stomach. The colon is affected by stress and can affect the person under stress to have diarrhea or bouts of constipation. When a person is under severe stress they could experience severe nausea. Although not the direct cause of conditions such as celiac disease, stomach ulcers or inflammatory bowel diseases, stress can in fact worsen these medical conditions.
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