People Who Are At Risk For Stress Related Diseases
Salihu Ibrahim
Stress occurs when we are faced with a situation or demand that
is beyond our personal and social resources and control. When we
encounter situations that seem to be beyond our knowledge and
capacity to find solution to it, the result is stress. So there
is hardly any single person who has not gone through one form of
stress or the other in his or her life time. As a fact, one
study showed that around 89 percent of respondents in a
research, faced one chronic form of stress or the other during
the course of their lives.
Our reaction to stress and what makes us open to it could be
determined by several conditions like;
1. Genetic trait,
2. Personality,
3. Early childhood encounter and
4. Inflammable diseases like arthritis.
Our response to stress can largely be determined by our
childhood life, especially if it is traumatic, it can affect
our ability to cope with stress. Also the environment in which
a child is brought up is also a determining factor on how we
respond to stress. A child brought up in a serene environment
may respond to stress in a calmer and more proficient way when
they became adults, than a child brought up in a environment
that is anxiety packed and fearful on a regular basis. Thus
they are more susceptible to diseases caused by stress.
Personality traits can also lead to been highly prone to stress
related diseases. It may cause you to overreact to events that
you felt are threatening. Genetically, if the regulation of
serotonin, a chemical of the brain that regulates how
comfortable or uncomfortable we feel, is not normal and is low
in production, our response to stressful event could be fierce.
The most vulnerable group of people to diseases caused by
stress are;
1. mothers who work,
2. people who are ostracized and discriminated against,
3. young adults,
4. the unemployed,
5. those who live in the city,
6. divorcees,
7. widows and widowers, and
8. women in general.
There are so many stressors around us that can make us
susceptible to stress related disease. For the young people,
especially the ladies, they are susceptible to stress arising
from break or upheaval in a so much cherished relationship,
resulting in depression. Parents care for their child could
also determine how low or high their stress hormones will be. A
child that is cared for and loved would have lesser stress
hormones. Unsatisfactory grades in school and loss of parents
could be a strong source of stress for boys.
Another group who are highly vulnerable to stress related
diseases are those who have responsibility of taking care for
members of the family who are ill. It could be a special need
child or temporal sick person or persons with terminal disease.
It gets worst when there is not enough money to keep the patient
and the nurse going and probably living with the patient all
alone. This could result in serious heart diseases and
heightened form of depression.
About The Author: The Author, Salihu Ibrahim, likes writing on
health issues. You can find some of his articles on
http://www.vitaminswell.com/hgh-vitamins.html at his website
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