20 facts that you might never have heard about stress (Part1)
- 3/4 of the world population undergo stress at different levels during a 2-week period. The working population is particularly subject to physical, emotional, and mental stress.
- Stress is among the main factors causing insomnia and other sleep disorders as well. When stressors are present, the body naturally heightens its response system, thus, leading to wakefulness.
- Chewing gum relieves not only the jaw but also stress as well.
- Laughter is definitely the best natural medicine for stress. It helps lower levels of adrenaline, cortisol, and epinephrine, which are stress-aggravating hormones; and it also releases feel-good hormones, such as, dopamine.
- Stress causes chest pain, high cholesterol, cardiac problems, depression, and a host of assorted problems. It isn't the culprit that causes gray hair, but it does cause hair loss.
- Stress triggers blood vessels to close, thereby, reducing profuse bleeding from a flesh wound.
- In the 1930s, Hans Selye, an endocrinologist, first used the term stress in an organic framework. He used the term in his study with animals which, he concluded, had similar responses to stress as humans, e.g., hypertension, lingering back pain, and chronic abdominal problems.
- A stressor, the stimulus causing stress can be real or imagined, can affect a person in a short-term or over long periods.
- Highly stressed women have a higher tendency for suicide, especially working mothers who lack substantial support and understanding from others, than most women with moderate levels of stress.
- In the UK, around 5 million people are stressed in their jobs. And the jobs considered most stressful are: commercial airline pilot, surgeon, photojournalist, and advertising account executive.
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