‘Stress’… not so bad?

January 30, 2012 11:44
‘Stress’… not so bad?

Nothing is bad… not even ‘Stress’… be it vague or known more about the same, we have been hearing Stress is not so bad as it sounds… certain amount of stress is good for our health and mental stability as well. to know more, read further;

In the past several years, a lot of us have convinced ourselves that stress is unequivocally negative for everyone, all the time. We've blamed stress for a wide variety of problems, from slight memory lapses to full-on dementia—and that's just in the brain. We've even come up with a derisive nickname for people who voluntarily plunge into stressful situations: they're "adrenaline junkies."

Sure, stress can be bad for you, especially if you react to it with anger or depression or by downing five glasses of Scotch. But what's often overlooked is a common-sense counterpoint: in some circumstances, it can be good for you, too. It's right there in basic-psychology textbooks. As some psychologists say, “some stress is healthy and necessary to keep us alert and occupied." Yet that's not the theme that's been coming out of science for the past few years. "The public has gotten such a uniform message that stress is always harmful”, a developmental psychologist at Johns Hopkins University. "And that's too bad, because most people do their best under mild to moderate stress."

Many have their own views about Stress or ‘Good Stress… out of them, some say, "We never tell people stress is good for them," one said. Another allowed that it might be, but only in small ways, in the short term, in rats. What about people who thrive on stress, I asked—people who become policemen or ER docs or air-traffic controllers because they like seeking out chaos and putting things back in order? Aren't they using stress to their advantage? No, the researchers said, those people are unhealthy. "This business of people saying they 'thrive on stress'?It's nuts," Bruce Rabin, a distinguished psychoneuroimmunology’s, pathologist and psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, told me. Some adults who seek out stress and believe they flourish under it may have been abused as children or permanently affected in the womb after exposure to high levels of adrenaline and cortisol, he said. Even if they weren't, he added, they're "trying to satisfy" some psychological need. Was he calling this a pathological state, I asked—saying that people who feel they perform best under pressure actually have a disease? He thought for a minute, and then: "You can absolutely say that. Yes, you can say that."

If not all these analysis, let us think from the basic. What is life if it is with no tensions, deadlines, issues or down falls? If we do not experience all the negative phase of our lives, then how can we enjoy the happiness of success?

So, just as life is a circle so as all that stress and happiness that comes after undergoing a lot of tension. The only thing is, nothing is permanent and we need to tune our mindset into the same… this makes us tougher, our mind set to be open to take any kind of challenges, and in turn makes us a complete individual...

The next time you are stressed out, just think even ‘Stress is a Bliss’!

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