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The Truth about Stress and Anxiety

The world today is permeated with too much predisposing factors and risks to diseases.

It makes man’s life span shorter compared in the past. The world today’s makes man’s life stressful and full of anxiety.

Stress and anxiety according to modern and traditional medicine, are the two factors that contribute to the formation or occurrence of many body disorders and diseases. The two are also the major factors that contribute to mental and psychological problems.

Stress is simply a fact of nature, forces from the outside world affecting the individual. Thus, all living creatures are in a constant interchange with their ecosystems, both physically and behaviorally. This interplay of forces or energy is of course present in the relationships between all matter in the universe, whether they are living or not living.

However, there are critical differences in how different living creatures relate to their environment. These differences have far-reaching consequences for survival.

Because of the overabundance of stress in the modern lives, people usually think of stress as a negative experience, but from a biological point of view, stress can be neutral, positive or negative.

Usually stress is viewed as a physical factor such as injury or mental state that disturbs the body’s normal state of functioning. Stress is a contributor to the development of many illnesses.

Anxiety is a complex combination of negative emotion that includes fear, apprehension and worry and often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, chest pains and shortness of breath. It may exist as a primary brain disorder or may be associated with other medical problems including psychiatric disorders.

Anxiety is often described as having a cognitive, somatic, emotional and behavioral component. The cognitive component entails expectation of a diffuse and uncertain danger. Somatically the body prepares the organism to deal with threat that is known as an emergency reaction. Somatic signs of anxiety may include pale skin, sweating, trembling and papillary dilation.

Emotionally, anxiety causes a sense of dread or panic, nausea and chills. Behaviorally, both voluntary and involuntary behaviors may arise directed at escaping or avoiding the source of anxiety. These behaviors are frequent and often maladaptive, being extreme in anxiety disorders.

However, anxiety is not always pathological or maladaptive, it is a common emotion along with fear, anger, sadness and happiness and it has a very important function in relation to survival.

Stress and anxiety are used interchangeably, but the two are different aspects and have differences. Despite of its differences between each other, one can never separate these two aspects. Stress and anxiety are very much related to each other. Stress is said to be one of the causes of anxiety and anxiety is one of the factors that contribute to stress. This only means that the two are aspects intertwined by nature.

There are common causes of stress and anxiety. According to the world of medicine, there are certain drugs, both recreational and medicinal that can lead to symptoms of anxiety and stress due to either side effects or withdrawal from the drug. A poor diet can also contribute to stress and anxiety.

One of the most influential factors that cause stress and anxiety is the environment. Environment is the one that mold the emotional, behavioral, social, religious, etc. aspects of life. Impairment or abnormalities in any of these aspects lead to stress and anxiety.

Stress and anxiety are parts of life. Their occurrence is fact of nature. The two are aspects of life that people can never escape.